Elites and Power Structure in Rural India

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Power trends attract and motivate all types of people, but its analytical study remained empirically unexplored till U.S. scholars like Floyd Hunter and Robert Dahl laid down the foundation of "Community Power Structure" studies in small American towns. This generated several conceptual and metrical innovations which made it possible for students of political science to analyze "Power" in its political dimensions in small communities. For reasons not very clear, the focus of such studies remained urban and very few studies of rural communities are available even today. During the sixties and seventies, several eminent political science scholars tried to analyze community power structure in India also but very few could prepare accurate power maps of Indian Villages even though India was (and is ) a "Land of Villages." This pioneering ‘Village Study’ delineates the contours of power structure in Shergarh, a village in Haryana, an agriculturally dynamic economy with a bull in bias in favour of the persistence i.e. continuing dominance of persons who enjoyed a dominant status in British India on account of convergence of social and economic contours in villages. This pioneering study would be of considerable interest to not only social scientists but all types of policy analysts.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ramesh Kumar

Dr. Ramesh Kumar obtained B.Sc. Agriculture Hons in 1976 and M.Sc. Landscaping & Floriculture in 1978 from the Punjab Agricultureal University, Ludhiana. He completed Ph.D. Floriculture as In Service 1994 at IARI, New Delhi. He was an ICAR Senior Fellowship holder during his Ph.D. programme. 1996 and 1998 respectively. He did his Ph.D. Horticulture in 2001 with specialization in Floriculture from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology Pantnagar. He has also presented paper in more than twenty national/international workshops, seminars and symposiums. He is the author of our best-selling books on floriculture, landscaping, and conferred with toung scientist by Hi-Tech Horticulture society, Meerut and Rashtriya Gaurav Award by India International and Rashtriya Gaurav Award by India International Friendship society, Delhi. Ramesh Kumar is an Ex-defence scientist, Defence Standardization and a microwave engineer.  Presently, he is engaged in the self production unit of microwave components and telecom accessories.  Besides, he runs an NGO, Social Reforms Organization, which is dedicated to rural development, social upliftment and awareness. 

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Title
Elites and Power Structure in Rural India
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1st ed.
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817445280X
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ix+132p.
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