Interpreting politics : situated knowledge, India, and the Rudolph legacy / John Echeverri-Gent and Kamal Sadiq.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Echeverri-Gent, John, editor.

Sadiq, Kamal, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rudolph, Lloyd I.

Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber.

India--Social conditions.

India.

India--Economic conditions.

India--Politics and government--1947-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This text investigates how people construct meaning and motivation for political action. Building on Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph's seminal scholarship of India, it develops the concept of situated knowledge to argue that people's capacity to empathize and dehumanize as well as their engagement in ongoing discourses and ideational power shape their political action. The volume illuminates contemporary Indian politics by showing how political leadership can transform people's understandings and cause dramatic political transformation.

Contents:

I. Introduction

1. Politics as Interpretation / Kamal Sadiq

II. Interpretative Approaches to Political Analysis

2. Situated Knowledge, the Construction of Meaning, and Political Action: A Framework for Interpretative Political Analysis / Kamal Sadiq

3. Interpretivism in Motion: Discursive Institutionalism as the Fourth `New' Institutionalism / Vivien A. Schmidt

4. Different Way of Seeing Things: The Intellectual Legacy of Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph / Kristen Renwick Monroe

III. Caste, Class, and the `Lived Experience' of Political Mobilization

5. Dominant Castes, from Bullock Capitalists to OBCs? The Impart of Class Differentiation in Rural India / A. Kalaiyarasan

6. Does Class Matter in Politics? Rethinking `Conditions and Reasons' / Ronald Herring

7. Interpreting the Political Economy of the Indian State: Culture, Inequality, and the Conceptual Possibilities of In Pursuit of Lakshmi / Leela Femandes

IV. State, Leadership, and Political Change

8. From Gandhi to Modi: Enlisting the Rudolphs to Understand Charismatic Leadership / Amrita Basu

9. In Pursuit of Saraswati: The Politics of Autonomy in the Indian University / Niraja Gopal Jayal

10. Civil-Military Relations and Democratic Stability / Steven I. Wilkinson

11. Centrism, Political Leadership, and the Future of Indian Politics / Kamal Sadia.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 16, 2020).

ISBN:

0-19-099128-3

0-19-099129-1