TY - BOOK AU - Frankel, Francine R TI - India's political economy, 1947-1977 : the gradual revolution SN - 9780195683790 U1 - 330.95404 PY - 2011/// CY - New Delhi PB - OUP KW - Politics and government KW - Economic history KW - Economic policy KW - Social conflict KW - Social conditions N2 - Analyzes the strategy of democratic social transformation adapted from Gandhi's two-pronged approach: class accommodation combined with an indirect attack on the social basis of exploitation. Describes India's politics over the past 30 years, and shows that questions addressed by Gandhi, Nehru, and subsequent leaders of the Indian National Congress on whether and how India's social transformation could be brought about without violent attack on the propertied castes and classes have still not been answered ER -