B.R. Publishing Corporation BRPC , pp. ix + 602 1st Edition . Hardback. New. B.R. Publishing Corporation BRPC ISBN 8170184800 9788170184805 [US]

ISBN10: 8170184800, ISBN13: 9788170184805, [publisher: B.R. Publishing Corporation] Hardcover pp. ix + 602
[Hounslow, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1988]

ISBN10: 8170184800, ISBN13: 9788170184805, [publisher: B.R. Publishing Corporation] Hardcover This is the first well-documented account of Opposition politics in India written by a person who has been an active participant in the events described here. The author unravels the complex and tangled story of India's struggle to create a united Indian state with the consent of the governed. In a gripping way the book describes the interaction of the political forces in the country: the Ruling Party and the Opposition, Right and Left, Socialists and Communists and the gradual decline of institutions that set in after 1962. The book opens with the first general election which caused despair in some sections and deceptive hopes in others. It describes how the question of attitude to the Nehru Congress baffled and disoriented the Socialist and Communist Parties. It next deals with the impact of Lohia's strategy of non-Congress unity, defeat of the Congress in several states, performance of the SVD Governments, Presidential contests of 1967 and 1969, and the Congress split which followed. The authoritarian trend, which surfaced after Mrs. Gandhi's victory in the snap poll of 1971, greatly disturbed JP. The Nav Nirman Agitation and the Bihar Movement roused the people, and it now fell to JP both to reflect and organize the popular will. The finale of all this was Mrs. Gandhi's losing her balance after the Allahabad judgment, the demand made by the Opposition ...
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