Urban Politics in India: Area, Power, and Policy in a Penetrated System

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University of California Press, 1974 - Political Science - 420 pages
Revised thesis on urban politics in the central Indian urban area of indore - shows how the components of local government and political leadership respond to demands and manage conflict despite ethnic group rivalries and centralization of political power at the state level. Bibliography pp. 391 to 405, references and statistical tables.
 

Contents

The City in Indian Politics
3
Urban Ecology and Developmental Pattern
22
Employment in Private and Public Establishments Indore
32
Social Bases of Political
49
Analysis by Community of Gazetted Officers of Holkar State
55
Holkar Cabinets 19471948
64
Origins and Election Outcomes
70
Indore City Congress Executive Officers 19471969
87
Municipal Council 19551957
172
Municipal Election Outcomes 1958
180
Municipal Council 19651968
196
Jurisdictional Conflict
211
PWD Expenditures in Corporation Budget 19521968
218
Bureaucratic Agency
229
Bureaucrats and Politicians 19471969
238
Factional Distribution of Politicans on the Improvement
244

Vertical Linkages
97
Indores Share of HigherLevel Administrative Positions
104
Indore Cabinet Politicians and Portfolios 19491956
112
Indores HighLevel Bureaucrats and Jurisdictions 1949
113
Indore Cabinet Politicians and Portfolios 19571967
124
THE MUNICIPAL ARENA
133
Municipal Council 19501955
153
Municipal Coun
160
Workers Machine
263
Appendix
268
The Fragmentation of Urban Politics
330
Area Power and Policy in a Penetrated System
347
Appendix B
387
Index
407
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