Parties and party politics in India / edited by Zoya Hasan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ḥasan, Zoyā.

Series:

Themes in politics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political parties--India.

Political parties.

India.

India--Politics and government--1947-.

Politics and government.

Local Subjects:

India--Politics and government--1947-.

Physical Description:

xvi, 566 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Contents:

1. The Congress "System" in India / Rajni Kothari

2. Social cleavages, elections, and the Indian party system / Pradeep K. Chibber, John R. Petrocik

3. Mrs. Gandhi's pyramid : the new Congress / Stanley A. Kochanek

4. The United colours of Congress : social profile of Congress voters, 1996 and 1998 / Anthony Heath, Yogendra Yadav

5. The leadership and organization of the Jana Sangh, 1951 to 1967 / B.D. Graham

6. A specific party-building strategy : The Jana Sangha and the RSS network / Christophe Jaffrelot

7. Anatomy of BJP's rise to power : social, regional, and political expansion in 1990s / Oliver Heath

8. The rebirth of the Shiv Sena : the symbiosis of discursive and organizational power / Mary Faisnod Katezenstein, Uday Singh Mehta, Usha Thakkar

9. Communist politics in search of hegemony / Javed Alam

10. Parliamentary communism as a historical phenomenon : the CPI(M) in West Bengal / Amrita Basu

11. The Janata phase : reorganization and redirection in Indian politics / Jyotirindra Das Gupta

12. Representation and redistribution : the new lower caste politics of North India / Zoya Hasan

13. Bringing society back in : ethnicity, populism, and pluralism in South India

14. Parties and the party system / James Manor

15. The fragmentation of the Indian party system, 1952-1999 / E.Sridharan

16. The political parties and the party system : the emergence of new coalitions / Balveer Arora.

Notes:

"Annotated bibliography": pages [533]-545.

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

0195655966

OCLC:

45898880