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Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope

   Author(s): M. Rajshekhar

Publisher: Context, Year: 2021

                                        

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At the level of the country, the tale of democratic failure is generally read, while the primary bulwarks of democratic functioning are neglected by the governments. This is a storey of the states of India, why they build schools but do not staff them with teachers; support a handful of enterprises so much that others fall into losses; fight water wars with their neighbours while enabling rampant sand mining and exploitation of groundwater; harness the right of people to vote but violently clamp down on their right to protest. Writing over thirty-three months from six states, award-winning investigative journalist M. Rajshekhar gives a required account of a profound and largely unexamined crisis.

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