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Routledge (Manohar) Why India Votes by Mukulika Banerjee
Why India Votes?' offers an account of the Indian electorate through a series of comprehensive ethnographic explorations conducted across the country - Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Rajasthan. It probes the motivations of ordinary voters, what they think about politicians, the electoral process, democracy and their own role within it.