Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of maps
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Argument
- 3 Political Integration: Empirical Conception and Method of Analysis
- 4 Ratnagiri District: Factional Alignments in Conditions of Poverty
- 5 Poona District: The Politics of Sugar
- 6 Aurangabad District: State versus District Leaders
- 7 Akola District: Factional Alignments in Conditions of Relative Plenty (The Politics of Cotton)
- 8 All Districts: Some Comparisons
- 9 Conclusion
- APPENDICES
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Ratnagiri District: Factional Alignments in Conditions of Poverty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of maps
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Argument
- 3 Political Integration: Empirical Conception and Method of Analysis
- 4 Ratnagiri District: Factional Alignments in Conditions of Poverty
- 5 Poona District: The Politics of Sugar
- 6 Aurangabad District: State versus District Leaders
- 7 Akola District: Factional Alignments in Conditions of Relative Plenty (The Politics of Cotton)
- 8 All Districts: Some Comparisons
- 9 Conclusion
- APPENDICES
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
THE SETTING: A TANGLED PATTERN OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS
In order to obtain an adequate perspective of the political situation within which factions evolved in Ratnagiri, I shall begin my discussion by sketching in some of its broad dimensions. More specifically, I shall attempt to analyze the pattern of political and economic relations which exist both horizontally, at the district level, and vertically, between the district and the State political arena. I hope subsequently to demonstrate that the pattern in these relationships complements or corresponds to that revealed by the findings of the more systematic, close-range analysis of ecological and individual characteristics. That is to say, the observations and ‘hearsay’ evidence introduced in this first section will, I trust, be largely substantiated or elucidated by the ‘hard’ analysis which will follow.
If I had relied only upon the ‘inside’ information or the suppositions of the leading figures in the district (and some of the lesser lights) regarding the bases of the factional alignment, I would have been confounded by the breadth and variety of divisions to which the factional dispute was traced. More than half a dozen rivalries were mentioned which, on first glance, seemed to have little or no relation to each other.
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- The Dynamics of Indian Political FactionsA Study of District Councils in the State of Maharashtra, pp. 59 - 79Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1972