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SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd An Indian Political Life: Charan Singh And Congress Politics, 1957 To 1967 by Paul R Brass
This volume traces Charan Singhs increasing discontent in the Congress, magnified by the antagonism on the part of Nehru and his daughter towards him, and the decline of the Congress as the dominant party in Uttar Pradesh (UP), which culminated in his defection to form a new political party and, at last, to achieve his goal of becoming chief minister of UP.
Like the earlier volume, this book is based primarily on the authors personal relationship with Charan Singh during his political career and early access to his massive political files and the authors own personal interviews with politicians, other public persons, peasants, and others over 50 years, up to the present. It also provides an account of the chief ministership of Sucheta Kripalania political outsider catapulted to the top by the power struggles of fractious factionsand at the same time explores against the backdrop of regionalism in UP the considerable yet little-known role played by Charan Singh in issues of states reorganization for northern India.
This book is the second volume of a multi-volume work on The Politics of Northern India: 1937 to 1987.