KARNATAKA STATE POLITICS: STABLE GOVERNMENTS TO UNSTABLE COALITION (From Consolidated Caste Alliances to Break up of Caste Alliances) (1956-2007)

There had been a single party government in Karnataka led by the Congress under an informal alliance by the Lingayat, Vokkaliga and Brahmin communities from 1956 to 1972 and under informal alliance by the weaker sections and the minorities in dominant position and the Lingayats and the Vokkaligas in...