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Civic engagements in the rural society played a crucial role in deepening of democracy in independent India. These engagements are undergoing a sigificant change due to increasing role of political parties in rural life. Political parties have peneterated deeply in the everyday life of rural community while using identity and state programs for mobilization purposes. People in rural areas look at parties from suspicion but depend upon them for accessing welfare benefits. Party politics has encouraged polarization among the rural populations on identity lines weakening the sense of community and collective. Similarly, institutions aimed at promotion of local self-governance have also added to this process of polarization instead of fostering a sense of community.
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Suthar, S.K. (2022). Rural Civic Engagements: Party Politics and Polarization. In: Dilapidation of the Rural. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3892-4_4
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