Democracy against Development : Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India Condition:Very Good By turns hilarious and heartbreaking

By turns hilarious and heartbreaking

The Making of Modern Japan charts these changes—the social engineering begun with the founding of the shogunate in 1600

A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)From the “author to watch” ( Kirkus Reviews ) of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes an “equal parts sarcastic and profound” ( Kirkus Reviews

Michio Torii Honorary Advisor

Democracy against Development : Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India Condition:Very Good By turns hilarious and heartbreakingHidden behind the much touted success story of Indias emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nations recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy against Development , Jeffrey Witsoe investigates this counter narrative, uncovering an antagonistic relationship between recent democratic mobilization and