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Publisher | |
Publication Year | 2021 |
ISBN-13 | 9788194879015 |
ISBN-10 | 9788194879015 |
Binding | Paperback |
Edition | FIRST |
Number of Pages | 300 Pages |
Language | (English) |
Weight (grms) | 260 |
The story of democratic failure is usually read at the level of the nation, while the primary bulwarks of democratic functioning—the states—get overlooked. This is a tale of India’s states, of why they build schools but do not staff them with teachers; favour a handful of companies so much that others slip into losses; wage water wars with their neighbours while allowing rampant sand mining and groundwater extraction; harness citizens’ right to vote but brutally crack down on their right to dissent. Reporting from six states over thirty-three months, award-winning investigative journalist M. Rajshekhar delivers a necessary account of a deep crisis that has gone largely unexamined.
M. Rajshekhar