01138pab a2200169 454500 180718b2014 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Mohanty, Manoranjan Persisting dominance : crisis of democracy in a resource-rich region 2014 p.39-47. 5 Apr Odisha presents a crisis of democracy with an upper-caste patriarchal domination that has been consolidated through the formation and expansion of a middle class that provides services to the capitalist extractive economy, while vast sections of the population, especially adivasis, dalits, and agricultural workers, remain marginalised. This process has been accentuated by neo-liberal policies and their implementation through a massive deployment of security forces. The strategy of dominance and governance has done little to reduce regional disparity between the coastal districts and inland regions, and it has been legitimised through the electoral process, welfare support, and the media. - Reproduced. Democracy Economic and Political Weekly N 103490 103486 103486 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 49, Issue no: 14 AR103950 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR