An Indian Political Life Charan Singh and Congress Politics, 1937 to 1961

includes index and biblioraphy

Part I: Introduction 1. An Indian Political Life Part II: Beginnings 2. Social Origins, Early Life, and Beginning of a Political Career 3. Partition and Hindu-Muslim Relations Part III: Town versus the Village 4.Discrimination against the Village: Reservation of 60 Percent of Places in Government Jobs for Agriculturists (1939-62) 5. Transformation of the Agricultural Economy of Northern India: Land Reforms and Charan Singh`s Defense of Peasant Agriculture (1946-60) 6. Urban Development and the Peasantry: Land Acquisition in Ghaziabad and the Cultivators (1950-2009) Part IV: Law and Order, Corruption,and Criminality in Post-Independence Uttar Pradesh 7. Corruption and Anti-corruption (1947-51) 8. Integrity and Reputation in a Corrupt System (1948-57) 9. Origins of the "Permit-License-Quota Raj" (1949) 10. Land Grabbing and Land Development in the Tarai (1952-55) 11. The Political Economy of the Hindu Joint Family (1959) 12. Political Parties and Crime in Early Post-Independence Uttar Pradesh (1954-61) Part V: Status, Hierarchy, and Gender 13. A Death in the Family: Status, Hierarchy, and Gender in the Indian Bureaucratic System (1950) Part VI: Caste, Faction, and Party 14. Caste, "Casteism," and "Communalism" before and after the First General Elections (1947-56) 15. The Struggle for Control of Meerut District (1954-56) 16. The Leader and His Followers: Loyalty, Betrayal,and Trust (1949-69) 17. Resignation after Resignation: Charan Singh in the Governments of Pandit Pant and Dr. Sampurnanand (1947-59) Part VII: Conclusion 18. Power, Principle, and Policy