SOCIAL FERMENT IN INDIA
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SOCIAL FERMENT IN INDIA
- (Athlone Press, London, 1986; US edition Humanities Press, New Jersey, 1987; Indian edition, Orient Longmann, Bombay, 1988). Social Ferment in India deals with those aspects of Indian society and culture which most social anthropologists and writers on India have chosen to ignore as being far too controversial. This is an in-depth study of the present-day social unrest in India. The author provides an analysis of the reasons for the widespread corruption among politicians and inner strata of the government machinery; for the blatant discrepancy between legislation designed to protect minority groups and their actual treatment by higher castes, the administration and even the judiciary. A revealing account based on the author's personal investigation and on standard published sources.
