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The Ecology of Peasant Communism in India

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The purpose of this article is to investigate the agrarian base of Indian communism through the use of statistical data and techniques in which the Communist vote over three general elections since 1957 is correlated with 35 largely socio-economic variables taken from Indian census data. The results indicate that two of these variables—landlessness in densely populated areas—explain a significant percentage of the variance in the Indian Communist vote. It is further suggested on the basis of statistical data accumulated by other investigators for Java and the Philippines that the same two variables are highly correlated with Communist strength in other parts of Asia.

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  • Zagoria, Donald S., 1971. "The Ecology of Peasant Communism in India," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 65(1), pages 144-160, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:apsrev:v:65:y:1971:i:01:p:144-160_30
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    1. Balu Sunilraj & Oliver Heath, 2017. "The Historical Legacy of Party System Stability in Kerala," Studies in Indian Politics, , vol. 5(2), pages 193-204, December.
    2. Triveni Gandhi, 2014. "Changing Risk for Landless Populations: How Structural Transformation Influences Communist Success in Rural India," Studies in Indian Politics, , vol. 2(1), pages 67-80, June.

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