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handle is hein.amenin/aeiablx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: India at the Polls: The Parliamentary Elections of 1977, by Myron Weiner, gives a firsthand account of the campaign leading to the historic defeat of Indira Gandhi's Congress party government after almost two years of authoritarian rule. Reacting against the suppres- sion of political life during the national emergency, the opposition leaders, most of them newly released from jail, united to form the Janata party and campaigned on the single issue of restoring de- mocracy. In north India, where the most extreme abuses of govern- ment power had occurred, including vast numbers of forcible steri- lizations under the family planning program, Janata met with strong popular support. In the south the picture was complicated by the existence of several regional parties, and the relative absence of abuses left much Congress party support intact. From his close analysis of the returns, Weiner concludes that, beyond the striking and unex- pected north/south cleavage, the most notable pattern of electoral support to emerge from the elections was the absence of any signifi- cant cleavage between urban and rural India. Looking further at the results of the state elections held since March 1977, Weiner assesses the effects of recent developments on the party system. Myron Weiner is Ford Professor of Political Science and a senior staff member of the Center for International Studies at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology. Among his books are Electoral Politics in the Indian States (with John 0. Field), Party Building in a New Nation: The Indian National Congress, Politics of Scarcity, and Sons of the Soil: Migration and Ethnic Conflict in India. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 ISBN 978-0-8447-3304-3 911 8111 4 73113 901 00 10 9 70844 73043

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