Social Ferment in India [Hardcover]

This study explores the nature and circumstances of India's social unrest in the 1980s. The author provides an analysis of the widespread corruption among politicians and in most strata of the government machinery, the blatant discrepancy between legislation ostensibly designed to protect minorities and their actual treatments by higher castes, the administration and the jurisdiction at the time.

Foreword by Professor Christoph von F?rer-Haimendorf
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. India on the Threshold of the Eighties
2. The Countryside
3. Land: Radical Laws and Tardy Reforms
4. West Bengal: A Marxist Alternative
5. Caste: A Factor Affecting Social Change
6. Corruption: A Factor Affecting Social Change
7. The Scheduled Castes
8. Reservations
9. The Tribes of India
10. Losers in the Development Process: Bhil Tribals of South Rajasthan
11. Losers in the Assimilation Process: The Tribals of Chotanagpur
Conclusion
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Alexandra Georgeis a graduate from Columbia University and journalist.