Gatekeeping as Accumulation and Domination: Decentralization and Class Relations in Rural South India

Journal of Agrarian Change

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 164-194

  Pattenden, Jonathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Class relations; Decentralization; Gatekeeping; India; Karnataka

Indexed keywords

CLASS; DECENTRALIZATION; DOMINANCE; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LABOR SUPPLY; POLITICAL POWER; RURAL POLITICS; RURAL SOCIETY; SOCIAL INCLUSION; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VILLAGE;

INDIA; KARNATAKA;

EID: 79952754662     PISSN: 14710358     EISSN: 14710366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0366.2010.00300.x     Document Type: Article

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