A left front election

Banerjee, Mukulika ORCID: 0009-0002-0309-2214 (2010) A left front election. In: Heath, Anthony and Jeffery, Roger, (eds.) Diversity and Change in Modern India: Economic, Social and Political Approaches. Proceedings of the British Academy (159). OUP/ British Academy, Oxford, UK, pp. 243-266. ISBN 9780197264515

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Abstract

This chapter provides an electoral ethnography of a campaign in the state of West Bengal. The uniquely continuous electoral victories of the Left Front since 1977 in this eastern state of India throws up the puzzle of how a coalition of parties has achieved this feat in a country where incumbent governments repeatedly suffer electoral defeats. A thick ethnographic description of the campaigning process, tracing the numerous techniques, organisational hierarchies and political messages at every level of the state’s population, provides some answers to this conundrum.

Item Type:	Book Section
Official URL:	http://www.britac.ac.uk/pubs/cat/pba.cfm
Additional Information:	© 2010 Oxford University Press
Divisions:	Anthropology
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific
Date Deposited:	28 Aug 2024 11:20
Last Modified:	15 Nov 2025 00:31
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/124947

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