Election Politics in Assam : Issues, Trends and People\'s Mandate

Contents: Preface. Abbreviations. 1. The environment: i. The political scenario. ii. The economic scenario. 2. Nomination process. 3. Ethnicity and vote bank politics. 4. Defining campaigns.5. Role of media. 6. The verdict. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

"This book Election Politics in Assam: Issues, Trends and People\'s Mandate is a product of an extensive research by the Omeo Kumar Das institute of social change and development, Guwahati, with a financial support from the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. It provides an insight into the election politics in the state of Assam taking the Lok Sabha poll of 2004 as the focal point. It covers various issues on which the elections were fought, highlights the nature of campaigns launched by the contenders, scans the process of nomination of the candidates, presents the role of media during the electioneering and finally provides an analysis of the popular mandate. It also indicates the trend in the elections, based on a dispassionate analysis of the political developments over a period of ten years. The volume has a rich academic texture with tables, maps, profiles of certain constituencies, case studies, analyses of shifts in people\'s choice and a useful bibliography." (jacket)