TY  - BOOK
AU  - Palshikar, Suhas
AU  - Deshpande, Rajeshwari
TI  - The last fortress of Congress dominance: Maharashtra since the 1990s 
SN  - 9789353886790
U1  - 352.0547 PAL-S 
PY  - 2021///
CY  - India
PB  - Sage Publications
KW  - India--Maharashtra
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Local elections
KW  - Politics and government--Research
N1  - Focused mainly on Maharashtra’s politics since the 1990s, The Last Fortress of Congress Dominance also provides its readers a clear view of the historical context and the socio-political forces that have dominated the state since the 1950s. The politics of Maharashtra has been woven around two key factors: the Congress party and the Marathas. Attempts by the Shiv Sena and the BJP to emerge as alternatives to the Congress have had only limited success so far. As the state politics witnesses the transition into a new party system, the book presents a detailed study  on the party system of Maharashtra and situates the analysis in the broader context of crisis of the Marathas and the many distortions of the state’s political economy.  Aided by rich survey data from the National Election Studies, for all elections since 1996, the book presents a long-term view of the politics of Maharashtra as the state completes 60 years of its existence
ER  -