Urban Life and Populist Radicalism: Dravidian Politics in Madras
- 1 May 1961
- journal article
- Published by Duke University Press in Journal of Asian Studies
- Vol. 20 (3) , 283-297
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2050816
Abstract
The Indian Municipal Elections of 1959 raised in compelling form the question of the relationship between urban life and political radicalism; radical parties of both the left and the right gained ground in Bombay, Delhi, and Madras. In Calcutta, radicalism already had a long history. The Madras results, when put in the context of the state's political history, raise further questions: is urban life an experience or a location; are city and village two different and separate worlds whose politics are discontinuous; or do the politically salient experiences of urban and rural people in some measure overlap?Keywords
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