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Studies on elections and voting behavior in India usually focus on statistics and survey research to understand the results and trends in politics. In this research case study, I use ethnography as a method to explore and analyze clientelistic politics in the context of elections. Through comparative ethnographic approach, I try to explore the changing forms of clientelistic politics in India. Through extensive fieldwork in two regions, I try to compare the similarities and differences in the evolution of clientelistic politics in India. I use various research tools like interviews, open-ended discussions, participant observations, shadowing candidates, and local-level leaders to explore the complex narrative of clientelistic vote mobilization lurking in the informal stretches of election campaigns. Through this research methods case, I explain and justify the need for using comparative ethnography as a method best suited for systematically studying clientelistic politics in India.

Papers presented at the National Seminar on the Indigenous Knowledge Traditions, held at Dibrugarh University in 2004

Rup Kumar Barman, Samakalin Paschimbanga: Jatpat, Jati-Rajniti O Tapashili Samaj. Kolkata: Gangchil, 2022, 132 pp., ₹400 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-93-93569-42-4.

The Indian constitution requires a transformation. The supreme legal document framed and adopted over seventy years ago needs a contextual, if not structural, reform in order to ensure that the liberties, rights, and protections it offers is relevant. This transformation that I propose is not necessarily about finding faults in the manner in which the Constitution is drafted but more so as a precautionary and prohibitory cause to avoid the scenario wherein the nation's most crucial document becomes obsolete to protect the citizens and/or fails to offer them the due recognition that they deserve. From the outset, the Indian Constitution is one of the most detailed and prudently scrutinised constitutions in the world. It has seen over a hundred amendments within the first three quarters of its century making it flexible, too. However, it is not bereft from the need of a reform to, mainly but not limited to, its context and scope. Due to the aforementioned reasons, I find it appropriate to write this essay on the topic, "The changes our Constitution needs- A reformative Approach."