Caste and the Andhra Communists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4929348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Selig S Harrison (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1956 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 378-404 |
| Publication date | 1956-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1951675 |
| OpenAlex | W2316553416 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 7 |
The primary raw material of Communist power in economically less developed regions of the world is neither the landless peasant with outstretched rice bowl nor the intellectual in search of a cause. Even more basic than these frequently summoned symbols, the realpolitik of social tensions determines political events where economic scarcity aggravates the particularisms dividing man from man.This contention gains strength from a study of Communist fortunes in a representative Asian setting. With little or no industrial economy to ease population density and underemployment, Andhra State on the southeast coast of India bears the familiar marks of Asian poverty. Here has emerged the most successful regional Communist movement in India. Yet the explanation for Andhra Communist strength does not lie in economic factors. The postwar decade in Andhra demonstrates that social factors can relegate even unusually powerful economic factors to a position of secondary importance
Caste · Communism · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Poverty · Power (physics · Sociology · Underemployment · Unemployment · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law
Recasting Land
Dalit Movement in Andhra Pradesh
Closed and open social stratification
State Capacity and Welfare Politics in India
The ‘Untouchable’ Communist and the Caste-Class Struggle in Sujatha Gidla’s Ants Among Elephants
Governing India
Insurgency by the numbers II
Revolution in Telengana (1946–1951)
Passive revolution meets peasant revolution
Some Political Aspects of Economic Development in India
Adivasis, Maoists and Insurgency in the Central Indian Tribal Belt
Social origins of the peasant insurrection in Telangana (1946-51)
Anticipating Future Capital
Social and Cultural Strategies of Class Formation in Coastal Andhra Pradesh
Caste Dominance and Territory in South India
The Politics of Language in India and Ceylon
Litigation as a Strategy for Personal Mobility
Technological Change and Political Turnover
Beyond Naxalbari
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 1958 - 2024 (67) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |