01008pab a2200145 454500008004000000100002000040245005000060260000900110300001500119362001300134520064500147650002200792650001400814773003400828180718b1999   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aSinha, Dipankar  aIndian democracy: exclusion and communication  c1999  ap.2230-236  a7-13 Aug  aThe politics of identity, a dominant feature of post-colonial India, is an outcome of a process which reveals both commonality and continuity between two contending and antagonistic entities - the state and the market. The state and the market in the mainstream development mode, which characterises this process, interact almost exclusively with the upper, visible and dominant segments of the society, subjecting vast number of people lower down the hierarchy to silence. The politics of identity manifests itself either as a protest or as a protective response to these exclusionary parties of both the state and the market. - Reproduced  aDemocracy - India  aDemocracy  aEconomic and Political Weekly