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V., Parliament and the Executive : An Analysis with reading , London, Routledge & Kegan Paul,1966. 61) The present study is somewhat unique in the sense that there is no learned work in this regard. However pieces of information may be gathered from the under mentioned titles: 62) Nositter, T. J., Communism in Kerala: A study in Political Adaptation ; Oxford University Press, London, 1982. 63) Gonchoudhuri,J. , A Political History of Tripura, Inter-India Publications, New Delhi,1986. 64) Bhattacharjee, B.K., Tripura Administration, The era of modernisation, Mittal Publications, New Delhi, 1986. 65) Bhattacharjee,S.R., Tribal Insurgency in Tripura, Inter-India Publications ,New Delhi, New Delhi,1989. 66) Basu,P.K., The Communist Movement in Tripura, Progress Publishers, Calcutta ,1996. 67) Majumder,B.M., The Legislative Opposition in Tripura, Tripura State Tribal Cultural Research Institution and Museum, Agartala, 1997. 68) A Political History of Tripura 253 69) The book covers the entire political history of Tripura right from the days of the mythological rulers of the state and progress through the rise of Tripura Kingdom under the Manikya Kings, merger with Indian Union, Development in the political consciousness among the people, electoral profile from the General Election of 1952 to 1983. This v\/ork has been used to the extent useful, but it has not come of much help for the present work. 70) Communism in Kerala: A study in Political Adaptation 71) This famous book deals in details with the genesis,growth ,functions and problems of the communist movement in Kerala and also emergence of the Kerala Communists as the electoral force (1951- 1960), Communists in government (1957-1959),Kerala and the CPI split (1960-1965), Communist accommodation (Formation of the United Front )1965-1967), Front Politics and Ministerial stability (1967- 1977), Front Politics economic development and social change (1967- 1975), and the basis of party support (1965-1980). This learned work has also attempted to compare the economic development in Kerala under the Left Front rule with that in West Bengal where it was commented, “ If we note the contrast with the situation in West Bengal where CPM Chief Minister Jyoti Basu has effectively begun the rejuvenation of the economy, it seems possible that the explanation for the CPM's comparative disregard of economic growth
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