Caste, Faction and Party in Indian Politics : Election Studies

339 Pages·1987·65.328 MB·English

by  Paul R. Brass

CASTE, FACTION AND PARTY
IN INDIAN POLITICS
Volume Two
ELECTIONS TUDIES
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FACTIONAL POLITICS IN AN INDIAN STATE:
THE
CONGRESS PARTY IN UTTAR PRADESH
RADICAL POLITICS IN SOUTH AsIA
(With Marcus Franda)
LANGUAGE, RELIGION, AND PoLmCS IN NORTH INDIA
SCIENCE, POLITICS AND THE AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION IN AsIA.
(With Robert S. Anderson)
CASTE, FACTION AND PARTY IN INDIAN POLITICS,
Vol. I: FACTION & PARTY
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Caste, Faction and Party
in Indian Politics
Volume Two
Election Studies
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CASTE, FACTION AND PARTY IN INDIAN POLITICS
Volume Two: Election Studies
by
Paul R. Brass
Copyright (0 198S Paul R. Brass
First published 1985
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Preface
The essays collected in this volume, except the introduction
and the long essay on "Caste, Caste Alliances, and Hierarchy of
Values in Aligarh District," appeared originally in various jour
nals over the past twenty-three years. All but the last. my first
publication on "Class and Community Voting in Kanpur City,"
have never been available before in India . The research and
writing for most of the articles and essays in this volume were
supported by numerous fellowship and grant-awarding agencies
and institut.ions, whose_ ~upport has been acknowledged in the
footnotes for each article.
In the preface to the first volume, I expressed my gratitude
for the help of several friends in India who have facilitated and
encouraged my work during many of the twelve or thirteen visits
I have made. The assistance of Dr. Pradip Mehendiratta,
Director of the ~~merican Institute of Indian Studies, and Dr.
D. P. Singh, Head of the Institute of Public Administration,
University of Lucknow, are one~ again gratefully acknowledged
here. I should like to add to this list Prof~ssor A. F. Usmani
of the Aligarh Muslin1 University Department of Political
Science, who has been especially kind and helpful to me during
my recent visits to Aligarh, and Mr. S.P. Mebra of Kanpur, who
has been a lively, stimulating, and gracious host during my visits
to Kanpur.
The officers and staff of the Election Commission of India
have been enormously helpful over the years in providing me
election statistics, which were used in several of the articles in
this volume.
Francis Robinson very kindly read through the introduction
to this volume at short notice and made suggestions that have
improved its style and clarity.
In the year that has passed since volume one was published
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in India, major and shocking political events have occurred that
are not the subject of the essays in this volume. Nevertheless,
these events have provoked an atmosphere of suspicion in the
political arena and in the press directed at American scholars.
One can only hope that the recent atmosphere is temporary.
This volume of essays, published exclusively in India, is, there
fore, offered in the hope that it will contribute to the perpetua
tion of an interchange between Americans and Indians that
deserves to be cherished.
Seattle Paul R. Brass
May,1985
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Abbreviations
AIKS All India Kisan Sabha
AMU A1igarhM uslim University
BKD Bharatiya Krantf Dal
BLD Bharatiya Lok Dal
·CPI Communist Party of India
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)
.DMKP Dalit Mazdur Kisan Party
INC (0) Indian National Congress (Organizational)
.KMP Kisan Mazdur Parishad
KMPP Kisan Mazdur Praja Party
MLC Member, Legislative Council
PSP Praja Socialist Party
SSP Samyukta Socialist Party
UP Uttar Pradesh
UPPP Uttar Pradesh Praja Party
UPRSP Uttar Pradesh Revolutionary Socialist Party
SCF Scheduled Castes Federation
RPI Republican Party of India
RSS Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
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This book is for my children,
DAVID MICHAEL BRASS,
born in Lucknow on November 6, 1962,
and
LEAH SARAH BRASS,
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born in New Delhi on Novermber 11, 1966
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