Power and influence in India bosses, lords and captains
The importance of individual leaders in the projection of politics in South Asia is evident from how political parties, mobilisation of movements and the media all focus on carefully constructed personalities. Besides, the politically ambitious have considerable room for manoeuvre in the institution...
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| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2010
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| Series: | Exploring the political in South Asia
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Table of Contents:
- Creating followers, gaining patrons: leadership strategies in a Tamil Nadu Village
- Leadership and political work
- Wrestling with (body) politics: understanding 'Goonda' political styles in North India
- To create a crowd: student leaders in Dhaka
- Contradictory youth politics: student mobilisation in Uttar Pradesh
- The new case headmen? Dalit movement leadership in Tamil Nadu
- The enduring appeal of populist leadership in contemporary Tamil Nadu
- Leadership and the power of honour in a corrupt system
- Beyond clientelism: Digvijay Singh's participatory, pro-poor strategy in Madhya Pradesh
- Development, drought and campaign rhetoric in South India: Chandrababu Naidu and the Telugu Desam Party, 2003-2004