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The Making and Unmaking of Local Democracy in an Indian Village

This study is an ethnographic investigation of a gram sabha (village assembly), the cornerstone of local democracy, in Soonaghalli, in the Mandya district of Southern Karnataka, India. Observation of the meeting and informal, open-ended conversations with the key actors illuminated how democratic po...

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Published in:	The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 2012-07, Vol.642 (1), p.152-169
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