Political Science · Political Processes in India
UGC NET Jan 2017 Political Science
Who among the following made a significant contribution to theories of the interaction between social dominance and state power in contemporary India?
AFrancine R Frankel and MSA Rao ✓ Correct
BMyron Weiner
CLloyd and Susane Rudolph
DPartha Chatterjee
Correct answer: (A) Francine R Frankel and MSA Rao — Francine R. Frankel and M.S.A. Rao edited the two-volume "Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order" (1989 to 1990).
Explanation
★Francine R. Frankel and M.S.A. Rao edited the two-volume "Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order" (1989 to 1990).
★The work studies how caste, class and regional dominance interact with state power across different parts of India.
★It analyses the decline of older social orders and the rise of new dominant groups through democratic and economic change.
★Frankel also wrote "India's Political Economy 1947 to 1977" and "India's Green Revolution", linking economy and politics.
★Myron Weiner worked on participation and party politics; the Rudolphs on tradition and modernity; Partha Chatterjee on subaltern and "political society".
★For NET, tie Frankel and Rao to "Dominance and State Power in Modern India" and the decline-of-a-social-order theme.
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