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Democracy in India / edited by Niraja Gopal Jayal.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Themes in politics series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--India.
- Democracy.
- India.
- India--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 571 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- I Indian Democracy Prefigured 51
- 1. 'Democracy' Under the Raj: Elections and Separate Representation in British India / James Chiriyankandath 53
- 2. The Rhetoric of Democracy and Development in Late Colonial India / David Washbrook 82
- II Democracy and the State 97
- 3. The Crisis of the Moderate State and the Decline of Democracy / Rajni Kothari 101
- 4. Political Change in a Democratic Developing Country / Atul Kohli 128
- 5. Demand Polity and Command Polity / Lloyd I. Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph 153
- 6. The State and Democracy in India or What Happened to Welfare, Secularism, and Development / Niraja Gopal Jayal 193
- III Democracy and Civil Society 225
- 7. The Culture of Representative Democracy / Sudipta Kaviraj 229
- 8. Power and Knowledge in Development Discourse: New Social Movements and the State in India / Pramod Parajuli 258
- 9. The Democratic Rite: Celebration and Participation in the Indian Elections / Walter Hauser, Wendy Singer 289
- 10. Hunger and Public Action / Jean Dreze, Amartya Sen 311
- 11. The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation / Arend Lijphart 326
- IV Democracy and Development 359
- 12. Economic Development and Political Democracy: Interaction of Economics and Politics in Independent India / Deepak Nayyar 361
- 13. The Political Economy of Reform in India / Pranab Bardhan 397
- V Democracy, Locality, and Region 415
- 14. Ballot Box and Local Power: Elections in an Indian Village / Subrata K. Mitra 419
- 15. Democracy and Decentralization in Karnataka (India) / Richard C. Crook, James Manor 441
- VI The Future of Indian Democracy 479
- 16. The Anti-caste Movement and the Discourse of Power / Gail Omvedt 481
- 17. Hindu Nationalism and Democracy / Christophe Jaffrelot 509.
- ISBN:
- 0195655613
- OCLC:
- 46433775
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