Elite Pluralism and Class Rule: Political Development in Maharashtra, India

by Jayant Lele

Book Overview

Based on a study of recent political behaviour in a rural region of India, the author presents a critique of pluralist theories of democracy and advances a new approach to political sociology. Professor Lele insists that the politicians of Maharashtra sustain, however dispersed, a hegemonic class rule. The processes of development and modernization directly serve strategies of private gain through the public sphere; the elites continue to enclose...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487587112
• ISBN13: 9781487587116
• Release Date: December 1981
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher