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Democracy and Its Inconvenient Questions-Ajay Dandekar and Kaveri Gill

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published Published on May 4, 2014   modified Modified on May 4, 2014
-Economic and Political Weekly
 

The case of the local people's grievance against the mining of iron ore for the Bhilai steel plant from Rowghat in the reserved forest area of Chhattisgarh, a Fifth Schedule Area, is just one more example of the infringement of constitutional rights and guarantees. It also portends what is to come with the polity poised to take a decisive right-wing turn.

Ajay Dandekar (ajayd16@gmail.com) is a faculty member, Shiv Nadar University and Kaveri Gill (gill.kaveri@gmail.com) is an economist and social scientist with the Oxford Policy Management, New Delhi.

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Economic and Political Weekly, Vol-XLIX, No. 19, May 10, 2014, http://www.epw.in/commentary/democracy-and-its-inconvenient-questions.html


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