Duncan, Ian (1997) Agricultural innovation and political change in north India: The Lok Dal in Uttar Pradesh. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 24 (4). pp. 246-268. ISSN 0306-6150

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Abstract

This article examines the basis of the success of the Lok Dal in electoral politics in Uttar Pradesh in relation to a wide range of indicators of agricultural innovation and change. It argues that the Lok Dal, through its political practice and electoral strategy, was able to create and sustain an electoral following across the state which subsumed many potentially divisive identities and interests and that the party is better understood as one which created and articulated new aspirations and interests rather than one simply mobilising traditional identities. It goes on to examine how events after the mid‐1980s produced circumstances which inhibited the further consolidation of the Lok Dal and led to major changes in the party political system in Uttar Pradesh.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Law, Politics and Sociology > Politics
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	21 Feb 2012 10:03
Last Modified:	10 Aug 2012 09:47
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/37921

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