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082			_a954.052092 _bBRA/A
100			_aBrass, Paul R
245			_aAn Indian political life: Charan Singh and Congress Politics,1937 to 1961
260			_aNew Delhi _bSage _c2011
300			_axxx, 575 p.
490			_aThe politics of Northern India: 1937 to 1987
500			_aVol.1 An Indian political life
520			_aAn Indian Political Life: Charan Singh and Congress Politics, 1937 to 1961 focuses on the role of Charan Singh in the politics of the period while providing a broader perspective on the major issues, controversies, and developments of the time. The book is the result of a careful study of Charan Singh's personal collection of political files coupled with a series of extensive interviews with politicians, public personalities, and local people. It provides an account of the principal issues and events of the period, including Hindu-Muslim relations, the conflict between the Nehruvian goal of rapid industrialization and the desires of those favoring primary attention to agriculture, issues of law and order, the rise of corruption and criminality in politics, the place of caste and status in a modernizing society, and the pervasive factional politics characteristic of the era. This work is much more than the biography of an important politician; it is also an analysis of issues, movements, and political conflicts that marked the late pre-Independence and early post-Independence era.
650			_aPrime ministers
650			_aPolitics and government
650			_aSingh, Charan
650			_aIndia
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