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100			_aGeorge, Anisha _958695
245			_aGharoghari Pudhari : The transformation of political competition in villages
260			_aEconomic & Political Weekly
300			_a60(49), Dec 6, 2025: p.52-62
520			_aDemocratic decentralisation, while widely appreciated in principle, is similarly panned in practice for its suggested ineffectiveness in transforming village power structures. Drawing on village ethnography and longue durée analysis, this paper finds the above notions untenable in the past and present, suggesting that power has always been contested in the village. Further, reform, far from ineffective, has managed to formally end centuries of feudal authority and expand the scope of political competition within a few decades, however unevenly. Such competition is notable not only in relation to village structures in the past but also higher tiers of the polity in the present.- Reproduced https://www.epw.in/journal/2025/49/review-rural-affairs/gharoghari-pudhari.html
773			_aEconomic & Political Weekly
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