Decentralisation of power and the institution of the panchayati raj system in West Bengal have been expected to aid the disappearance of subalternity (or a state of powerlessness) by way of caste, class and gender. On the contrary, an ethnographic investigation in a village panchayat reveals that divisions between the elite and the subaltern continue to exist in a complex form despite grassroots democracy in the state.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/whither-subaltern-domain-ethnographic-enquiry
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/dayabati-roy
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/economic-and-political-weekly
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/political-decentralisation
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/governance
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/political-parties
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/panchayats
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/politics
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/west-bengal
