The Non-Party Political Process

Rajni Kothari The role of the State in social transformation in India has got undermined, 'development has led to a striking dualism of the social order, and 'democracy has become the playground for growing corruption, criminalisation, repression and intimidation for large masses of the people whose very survival is made to depend on their staying out of the political process and whose desperate economic state incapacitates them from entering the regular economic process as well.