West Bengal has the longest-ruling democratically elected Communist government in world history. Since 1977 the Left Front has governed a population of 68 million people and has received considerable world-wide attention as a positive example of Third World development and change. In this book, Dr Ross Mallick convincingly challenges this view of the Left Front government, arguing that it has been a failure in terms of redistributive development reform.
| ISBN: | 9780521047852 |
| Publication date: | 26th November 2007 |
| Author: | Ross Mallick |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge South Asian Studies |
| Genres: |
Far-left political ideologies and movements |