Articles by Vikash N Pandey

Political Parties in a Fragmented Society Vikash N Pandey IN their well argued paper. Tarty Strategies in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections, 1996' (EPW. February 1-7:214-22), Kanchan Chandra and Chandrika Parmar, have detailed the election strategies of and outcome (in terms of votes) for the major political parties/alliances. They have argued that in absence of structural conditions, the moderate election strategies have only resulted 'in each party... (being) in the same position from which it had started' (p 219). No doubt, '(t)here were clearly changes in the distribution of the vote, among regions and among caste groups, but an increase in one direction was offset by the decrease in another..' (ibid).

Beyond Conventional Sociology of Organisation Vikash N Pandey Akhileshwar Pathak Conventionally, organisations have been understood by reading the context in which they exist. This mapping of social context has questioned the 'closed system' approach in organisation behaviour literature. However, organisations are text and they emerge and operate in a context. The context, including state, law and society, are dynamic and interactive social processes. Once an organisation is born, its constitution binds the constituents in its language like law; and it is a social fact re-shaping the context. Therefore an understanding of organisations has to read the text and context as dynamic processes and multiple discourses taking place within and amongst the organisation, society, law and state.

Continuity and Change Vikash N Pandey The limitations/failure of land reform lay the structural foundations of the limitations/failure of rural co-operatives and the Green Revolution, Wherever land reforms have failed (at least in removing the non-cultivating groups and establishing the cultivating owners), the groups which need co-operatives did not emerge. Similarly, agricultural transformation has remained elusive in those areas.