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agricultural Ahir areas Backward Classes Bihar Bijnor birth cohorts Bolpur British Academy campaign Cassen caste-community cent chapter child labour cleavage Commission Communist Congress decades decline Delhi democracy demographic Development Dharmnagri Dyson elections electoral emergence employment equality of opportunity factions family planning fertility fiscal forward caste Government of India groups Gupta higher education Hindu Hindu upper increase India New Delhi industrial institutions Jeffery Jhakri Joshi liberalisation major Mandal merchant producer million modern modernisation mortality Muslims OBCs odds ratios Oliver Heath organisation Osella Oxford University Press Parivar party system patterns polio Political Weekly population poverty programme public sector reform regional relatively reservations rural salariat Scheduled Castes Scheduled Tribes Singh sterilisation structure subsidies Table Tamil Nadu tion trends upper castes urban Uttar Pradesh V. P. Singh village Visaria vote voters West Bengal women workers Yadav