West Bengal and the Federalizing Process in India

by Marcus F. Franda

Overview

Since its independence in 1947, India, as a large, diverse, and rapidly changing country, has had to meet federalizing problems of a magnitude unprecedented in history. The result has been a process that combines, modifies, and transforms many established ideas about federalism. Professor Franda deals with the complexities of India's experience by analyzing the politics of center-state relations as they affect one Indian state. He explores the various ways in which central and state leadership groups in India and West Bengal have developed working relationships, and examines the effect of state and regional political, economic, and social conditions on the evolution of center-state behavior patterns.

Originally published in 1968.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691649504
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library , #1933
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter, pg. i
• Acknowledgments, pg. vii
• Contents, pg. xi
• Tables. Figures, pg. xii
• I. Introduction, pg. 1
• II. States Reorganization: The Development of State Demands, pg. 8
• III. States Reorganization: The Response to State Demands, pg. 36
• IV. The Damodar Valley Corporation: The Creation and Loss of DVC Autonomy, pg. 62
• V. The Damodar Valley Corporation: Center-State Relations and the DVC, pg. 96
• VI. Land Reform: The Absence of Consensus, pg. 129
• VII. Center-State Relations and the Development of a Land Reform Policy for West Bengal, pg. 151
• VIII. Party Government and Center-State Relations, pg. 179
• IX. Sources of State Independence, pg. 200
• Bibliography, pg. 225
• Index, pg. 253