Quest for Power: Oppositional Movements and Post-Congress Politics in Uttar PradeshSetting the analysis in a broader trajectory of change in Indian society and politics, this book explores the growth of the oppositional politics of farmers, other Backward Classes and Hindulva in Utta Pradesh and its majoritarian reformulation that contributed to the decimation of the Congress Party in the 1980s. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Historic | 16 |
Farmers in the Forefront | 70 |
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agitation Agrarian agricultural areas Ayodhya Ayodhya movement backward castes Bihar Brahmins caste and class cent central centre challenge Charan Singh chief minister coalition Commission conflict Congress government Congress party culture Dalits decline Delhi Democracy districts dominated eastern Economic and Political election electoral elite emerged empowerment farmers groups growth Gujarat Hindi Hindu nationalism Hindutva Ibid identity ideology India Delhi India Today Indian Politics issue Janata Jats Kamlapati Tripathi karsewa Kurmis land reforms language large number leaders Lucknow major Mandal Meerut ment middle classes Moradabad Mulayam Singh Yadav Muslims Nehru OBCs opposition organizations Oxford University Press peasantry peasants Pioneer Lucknow political change political mobilization political power Political Weekly population Ramjanmabhoomi region religious Report reservations riots rural Sabha Sampurnanand Scheduled Castes sector secular social socialists society strategy structure surplus Tamil Nadu Thakurs tion upper castes urban Urdu Uttar Pradesh V.P. Singh violence western zamindari zamindari abolition