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Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788178243528
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (435 download)
Download or read book The trajectories of the Indian state : politics and ideas written by Sudipta Kaviraj and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788178242880
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (428 download)
Download or read book The Trajectories of the Indian State written by Sudipta Kaviraj and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maya Tudor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032962
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Promise of Power written by Maya Tudor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under what conditions are some developing countries able to create stable democracies while others have slid into instability and authoritarianism? To address this classic question at the center of policy and academic debates, The Promise of Power investigates a striking puzzle: why, upon the 1947 Partition of British India, was India able to establish a stable democracy while Pakistan created an unstable autocracy? Drawing on interviews, colonial correspondence, and early government records to document the genesis of two of the twentieth century's most celebrated independence movements, Maya Tudor refutes the prevailing notion that a country's democratization prospects can be directly attributed to its levels of economic development or inequality. Instead, she demonstrates that the differential strengths of India's and Pakistan's independence movements directly account for their divergent democratization trajectories. She also establishes that these movements were initially constructed to pursue historically conditioned class interests. By illuminating the source of this enduring contrast, The Promise of Power offers a broad theory of democracy's origins that will interest scholars and students of comparative politics, democratization, state-building, and South Asian political history.
Author : Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745338927
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Indian Democracy written by Alf Gunvald Nilsen and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than seventy years after its founding, with Narendra Modi's authoritarian Hindu nationalists in government, is the dream of Indian democracy still alive and well? India's pluralism has always posed a formidable challenge to its democracy, with many believing that a clash of identities based on region, language, caste, religion, ethnicity, and tribe would bring about its demise. With the meteoric rise to power of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the nation's solidity is once again called into question: is Modi's Hindu majoritarianism an anti-democratic attempt to transform India into a monolithic Hindu nation from which minorities and dissidents are forcibly excluded? With examinations of the way that class and caste power shaped the making of India's postcolonial democracy, the role of feminism, the media, and the public sphere in sustaining and challenging democracy, this book interrogates the contradictions at the heart of the Indian democratic project, examining its origins, trajectories, and contestations.
Author : Aseema Sinha
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253344045
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India written by Aseema Sinha and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This look at economic development in India focuses on interactions between the central state and regional elites. India is widely regarded as a "failed" developmental state, seemingly the exception that belies the prediction of a triumphant Asian century.
Author : Ajay K. Mehra
Publisher : Lancer Publishers LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781935501442
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Party System in India written by Ajay K. Mehra and published by Lancer Publishers LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-03 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume attempts to capture the emerging trajectories of the party system in India in the second decade of the twenty-first century with seventeen essays written specially for this volume by scholars who met several times to discuss and formulate questions and critique each other's drafts. Overall, the book provides an incisive and comprehensive analysis of the far-reaching changes that India's political parties and party system are undergoing. It looks into the institutional dimensions, processes and agenda, federal manifestations, transitions (including generational change), and extraneous influences brought in by globalization, Indian diaspora, and the impact of new media technology. Constituting an important contribution to the ongoing debate on the Indian party system, this book will attract the attention of students of Indian politics, political science, democracy, party systems, and comparative politics.
Author : Sunila S. Kale
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804791023
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Electrifying India written by Sunila S. Kale and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 20th century, electricity was considered to be the primary vehicle of modernity, as well as its quintessential symbol. In India, electrification was central to how early nationalists and planners conceptualized Indian development, and huge sums were spent on the project from then until now. Yet despite all this, sixty-five years after independence nearly 400 million Indians have no access to electricity. Electrifying India explores the political and historical puzzle of uneven development in India's vital electricity sector. In some states, nearly all citizens have access to electricity, while in others fewer than half of households have reliable electricity. To help explain this variation, this book offers both a regional and a historical perspective on the politics of electrification of India as it unfolded in New Delhi and three Indian states: Maharashtra, Odisha, and Andhra Pradesh. In those parts of the countryside that were successfully electrified in the decades after independence, the gains were due to neither nationalist idealism nor merely technocratic plans, but rather to the rising political influence and pressure of rural constituencies. In looking at variation in how public utilities expanded over a long period of time, this book argues that the earlier period of an advancing state apparatus from the 1950s to the 1980s conditioned in important ways the manner of the state's retreat during market reforms from the 1990s onward.
Author : Seyed Hossein Zarhani
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367586768
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Governance and Development in India written by Seyed Hossein Zarhani and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the micro-institutional variables and the role of regional elites, the author investigates the political roots of the divergence of development trajectories among India's subnational states since the liberalization, as an essential aspect of the political economy of development in India.
Author : Doornbos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780803993709
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (937 download)
Download or read book Dynamics of State Formation written by Doornbos and published by . This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles is devoted to the comparative analysis of the trajectories of state formation in India and Europe. Topics discussed include: the genesis of early state forms in Indian and European historicocultural contexts; identity formation; the role of the state and citizenship; trends of marginalization; and perspectives on the past and present forms of state formation and social transformation in India and Europe.
Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9350295555
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Muslims In Indian Cities written by Christophe Jaffrelot and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '[This] substantial volume at once illuminates empirical conditions and tests theories about ghettoization, integration, and the political attitudes of India's urban Muslims' - Sunil Khilnani 'Christophe Jaffrelot's range of scholarship is amazing, and his new book ... co-edited with Laurent Gayer, illustrates well his wide-ranging interests. The contributions are instructive and insightful and cover a much-neglected theme in contemporary South Asia' - Mushirul Hasan Numbering more than 150 million, Muslims constitute the largest minority in India, yet suffer the most politically and socio-economically. Forced to contend with severe and persistent prejudice, India's Muslims are often targets of violence. In India's cities, these developments find contrasting expressions. While the quality of Muslim life may lag behind that of Hindus nationally, local and inclusive cultures have been resilient in the south and the east. In the Hindi belt and in the north, Muslims have known less peace, especially in the riot-prone areas of Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Jaipur and Aligarh, and in the capitals of former Muslim states - Delhi, Hyderabad, Bhopal and Lucknow. These cities are rife with Muslim ghettos and slums. However, self-segregation has also played a part in forming Muslim enclaves, such as in Delhi and Aligarh, where traditional elites and a new Muslim middle class have regrouped for physical and cultural protection. Combining first-hand testimony with sound critical analysis, this volume follows urban Muslim life in eleven Indian cities, providing uncommon insight into a litde-known subject of immense importance and consequence.
Author : Philip Oldenburg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113693930X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book India, Pakistan, and Democracy written by Philip Oldenburg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the specificities and the nuances of the state systems of India and Pakistan. It examines in detail the balance of authority and power between popular or elected politicians and the state apparatus through substantial historical analysis. A comparative analysis as well as a historical overview of the two countries, this book constitutes essential reading for students of South Asian History and Politics. It is a useful and balanced introduction to the politics of India and Pakistan.
Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231152221
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Imaginary Institution of India written by Sudipta Kaviraj and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Imaginary Institution of India is the first major collection of Sudipta Kaviraj's essays and as such, will be received with great curiosity and attention."-Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles --
Author : Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137591331
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Social Movements and the State in India written by Kenneth Bo Nielsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of the extent to which social movements are capable of deepening democracy in India lie at the heart of this book. In particular, the authors ask how such movements can enhance the political capacities of subaltern groups and thereby enable them to contest and challenge marginality, stigma, and exploitation. The work addresses these questions through detailed empirical analyses of contemporary fields of protest in Indian society – ranging from gender and caste to class and rights-based legislation. Drawing on the original research of a variety of emerging and established international scholars, the volume contributes to an engaged dialogue on the prospects for democratizing Indian democracy in a context where neoliberal reforms fuel a contradictory process of uneven development.
Author : Gijsbert Oonk
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9053560351
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Global Indian Diasporas written by Gijsbert Oonk and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Indian Diasporas discusses the relationship between South Asian emigrants and their homeland, the reproduction of Indian culture abroad, and the role of the Indian state in reconnecting emigrants to India. Focusing on the limits of the diaspora concept, rather than its possibilities, this volume presents new historical and anthropological research on South Asian emigrants worldwide. From a comparative perspective, examples of South Asian emigrants in Suriname, Mauritius, East Africa, Canada, and the United Kingdom are deployed in order to show that in each of these regions there are South Asian emigrants who do not fit into the Indian diaspora concept—raising questions about the effectiveness of the diaspora as an academic and sociological index, and presenting new and controversial insights in diaspora issues.
Author : Steven Wilkinson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674728807
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Army and Nation written by Steven Wilkinson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steven I. Wilkinson explores how India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed. He uncovers the command and control strategies, the careful ethnic balancing, and the political, foreign policy, and strategic decisions that have made the army safe for Indian democracy.
Author : Jules Naudet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199093652
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Stepping into the Elite written by Jules Naudet and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The experience of shifting from one social class to another—from a dominated group to a dominant group—raises the question of how the upwardly mobile person relates to his/her group of origin. Stepping into the Elite traces the particular ways in which upwardly mobile people in India, France, and the United States—countries embodying three distinct stratification systems—make sense of this change. Given that people draw upon specific cultural tools or repertoires to analyse their world and situate themselves in it, Naudet identifies the extent to which narratives of ‘success’ vary from one country to another. For instance, he explains that while stories in a caste-ridden society such as India hinge on the preservation of bonds with the original class, in France, they are centered on the idea that an upwardly mobile person is alienated from all social groups. In the United States, on the other hand, the rhetoric of success is tinged by the ardent belief in the American society being classless. A sociological journey in three different cultural contexts, this book deftly ties the exploration of questions regarding transformation of social identity and views on being successful.
Author : Bidyut Chakrabarty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134132689
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Indian Politics and Society since Independence written by Bidyut Chakrabarty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-12 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on politics and society in India, this book explores new areas enmeshed in the complex social, economic and political processes in the country. Linking the structural characteristics with the broader sociological context, the book emphasizes the strong influence of sociological issues on politics, such as social milieu shaping and the articulation of the political in day-to-day events. Political events are connected with the ever-changing social, economic and political processes in order to provide an analytical framework to explain ‘peculiarities’ of Indian politics. Bidyut Chakrabarty argues that three major ideological influences of colonialism, nationalism and democracy have provided the foundational values of Indian politics. Structured thematically and chronologically, this work is a useful resource for students of political science, sociology and South Asian studies.
