Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya works at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was previously Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. A recipient of a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, a Nehru Cambridge Trust Scholarship, a Churchill College Honorary Fellowship and a DAAD Fellowship, he has held visiting positions at Claremont University, USA; Massey University, New Zealand; and Gottingen University, Germany.

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• Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Inception: government as practice; 2. Consolidation: land reforms; 3. Agency: school teachers; 4. Machinery: party society; 5. Implosion: Singur, Nandigram; Appendix 1. The Left through elections; Appendix 2. Local governance and electability; Bibliography; Index.

Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya works at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was previously Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. A recipient of a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, a Nehru Cambridge Trust Scholarship, a Churchill College Honorary Fellowship and a DAAD Fellowship, he has held visiting positions at Claremont University, USA; Massey University, New Zealand; and Gottingen University, Germany.

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• Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Inception: government as practice; 2. Consolidation: land reforms; 3. Agency: school teachers; 4. Machinery: party society; 5. Implosion: Singur, Nandigram; Appendix 1. The Left through elections; Appendix 2. Local governance and electability; Bibliography; Index.

Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya works at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was previously Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. A recipient of a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, a Nehru Cambridge Trust Scholarship, a Churchill College Honorary Fellowship and a DAAD Fellowship, he has held visiting positions at Claremont University, USA; Massey University, New Zealand; and Gottingen University, Germany.

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• Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Inception: government as practice; 2. Consolidation: land reforms; 3. Agency: school teachers; 4. Machinery: party society; 5. Implosion: Singur, Nandigram; Appendix 1. The Left through elections; Appendix 2. Local governance and electability; Bibliography; Index.