Cultivating democracy : politics and citizenship in agrarian India / Mukulika Banerjee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banerjee, Mukulika, author.

Series:

Modern South Asia.

Oxford scholarship online.

Modern South Asia

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--India.

Democracy.

Agriculture--Economic aspects--India.

Agriculture.

Social participation--India--Case studies.

Social participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Mukulika Banerjee focuses on both India's institutional form and its democratic culture, arguing that the project of democracy is incomplete unless it is accompanied by a continual cultivation of active, republican citizenship. Covering the period from 1998-2013, 'Cultivating Democracy' provides an anthropological analysis of the relationship of formal political democracy and the cultivation of active citizenship in a rural setting in India. Banerjee's analysis shows how India's agrarian village society produces the social imaginaries required for democratic and republican values. More broadly, she shows that democracy is not simply a product of institutional design but also requires continual civic cultivation by both parties and the citizens themselves.

Contents:

cover

Series

Cultivating Democracy

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

1. The Event and Democracy

2. Context: The Village in a Democracy

3. Scandal: Cultivating Competition

4. Harvest: Cultivating Cooperation

5. Sacrifice: Cultivating Faith

6. Election: Cultivating Citizenship

7. Cultivating Democracy

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-760190-1

0-19-760189-8

OCLC:

1267766109