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52-2771 JQ292 MARC Banerjee, Mukulika. Why India votes? Routledge, 2014. 286p bibl index ISBN 9781138019713 cloth, $23.95
Banerjee (anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) offers an anthropologist's analysis of Indians' high electoral turnout (60 percent) despite poverty and illiteracy. India's rural poor actually vote somewhat more than the urban middle class. Banerjee disdains Western analyses that...