Zoya Hasan. Dominance and Mobilisation: Rural Politics in Western Uttar Pradesh 1930-1980.

Ibrahim, Sahiba

Zoya Hasan. Dominance and Mobilisation: Rural Politics in Western Uttar Pradesh 1930-1980. New Delhi: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd. 1989.9-195pp.

Examination of the future of agrarian society and role of the rural power structure has become an important issue in the analysis of political change in India. The aim of this study is to look into changes in agrarian relations and their impact on socio-political processes in Aligarh District in Western U.P.

This book tries to explore this theme in four phases. The first phase covering 19.30-1946. with the emergence of the Indian National Congress, and then its dominance in the second phase of 1960. The third phase is from 1967-69 which examines the discontent with the Congress. And finally the 1974-1980 period in which inter party competition was found. And within this framework the book further goes on to analyse the structure and issue of the response of certain caste and class in this district.

The authors outline the pattern and shift s in mobilization in the fifty year period and then assess the extent to which these are related to changes in the political economy of the district.

* Prepared by Ms Sahiba Ibrahim, Assistant Faculty Member at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad.