Dysfunctional ParaPolitics and elite action in India

The present volume includes the enlarged content of the my empirical research papers (1963-67) contributed on the subject of Indian political elite leadership to various seminars, professional and popular journals: Power Structure of Indian Society, Three-Step Communication and Rural Leader ship in India, Leadership and Bureaucracy-a case study of Uttar Pradesh, Parliament in Normlessness, Dysfunctional Political Elite in India, Goal-Achievement and Leadership-a case study of the year 1966. The main arguments with modest probable generalisations have been developed around the conceptual frame of para-politics based on the parapolitical fucture (caste-class, locality, region, language, family kinship, and faction etc.) of our traditional society in transition. Political elite manipulation of the non-elite is creating impediments in emergence of a national society and socialistic development.
The role of political elite, emerging out of the democratic election process to Indian Parliament and State Legislatures, has the obligation to achieve these goals. The volume, being a phase study of Indian power-politics in the third Five Year Plan period, depicts their role-failure mainly due to dysfunctional para-politics.