Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh

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Development Failure and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh provides a qualitative, in-depth understanding of development failures and identity politics in Uttar Pradesh (UP). It investigates neoliberal change and political transformation in India through the lens of UP, India’s largest and, by some measures, poorest state. It examines the connection between transitions in the contemporary economy of India and transformations in politics from the standpoint of UP. The book demonstrates how an understanding of dynamics in UP might provide new perspective on issues such as the state, the civil society, caste, democracy and social impact of economic reforms―issues that are the subject of vigorous debate in India as a whole.  Cover Contents Preface 1 - Introduction: Democratisation in Uttar Pradesh 2 - Rural Transformation and Occupational Diversification in Western Uttar Pradesh:Economic and Demographic Changes in a Village 3 - Underserved and Overdosed? Muslims and the Pulse Polio Initiative in Rural North India 4 - The Elusive Pursuit of Social Justice for Dalits in Uttar Pradesh 5 - Agency in Words,Self-representation in Action: Connecting and Disconnecting Dalit and Low-caste Womenwith India’s History of Gender and Politics 6 - Political Cooperation and Distrust: Identity Politics and Yadav–Muslim Relations, 1999–2009 7 - On Whose Behalf? Women’s Activism and Identity Politics in Uttar Pradesh 8 - The Politics of Identity and the People Left Behind: The Mallah Community of Uttar Pradesh 9 - Working Narratives of Intercommunity Harmony in Varanasi’s Silk Sari Industry 10 - Democracy and Development in Uttar Pradesh Glossary About the Editors and Contributors Index