In a New society, the ethos and idioms of the micro- and macro-politics are remarkably different from those of the developed societies as politics of modernization changes the underlying political culture though slow but steady politization of individuals and aggregations. New dimensions of the style of political leadership are also revealing. The present work is the first scientific study, base don sophisticated statistical methods, of political leadership pattern in West Bengal – a sub-system within the new federal society of India that illustrates multiple polarization’ of Indian politics. It is a detailed empirical study of a select group of political leaders of four major political parties dominant in West Bengal politics during late ‘70s and early ‘80s based on the analysis of leadership-composition in terms of the background variables and attitude-complexes of the leader respondents. The study is essentially a micro-level research. But since all the four parties under study are operationally important at the national-level, the emerging pattern of leadership as exposed in West Bengal may be projected at the macro-level also. Future researchers as well as all those interested in understanding the newly emergent dimensions the newly emergent dimensions of political-leadership in India will find this book immensely useful. It will also help in having a meaningful insight into political process operating at the micro-level vis-?-vis the macro-level of the body politics.
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