Companion To Indian Democracy

Author : Peter Ronald deSouza
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000461580
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Companion to Indian Democracy written by Peter Ronald deSouza and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary experiences of democracy in India. It explores the modes by which democracy as an idea, and as a practice, is interpreted, enforced, and lived in India’s current political climate. The book employs ‘case studies’ as a methodological vantage point to evolve an innovative conceptual framework for the study of democracy in India. The chapters unpack a diverse range of themes such as democracy and Dalits; agriculture, new sociality and communal violence in rural areas; changing nature of political communication in India; role of anti-nuclear movements in democracies; issues of subaltern citizen’s voice, impaired governance and the development paradigm; free speech and segregation in the public sphere; and, the surveillance state and Indian democracy. These thematic explorations are arranged in an engaging sequence to offer a multifaceted narrative of Indian democracy especially in relation to the recent debates on citizenship and constitutionalism. A key critical intervention on contemporary politics in South Asia, this book will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of political studies, political science, political sociology, comparative government and politics, sociology, social anthropology, public administration, public policy, and South Asia studies. It will also be of immense interest to policymakers, journalists, think tanks, bureaucrats, and organizations working in the area.

Author : Niraja Gopal Jayal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Politics in India written by Niraja Gopal Jayal and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive overview of Indian politics to date, the companion incorporates the best social science knowledge available on the developments in Indian politics and provides an analytical perspective of how such issues are best understood.

Author : Richard Boyd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107189810
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America written by Richard Boyd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays explore important themes and contemporary legacies of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic work Democracy in America.

Author : Jelle J. P. Wouters
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000636992
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Northeast India written by Jelle J. P. Wouters and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India by discussing its life-forms – human and not – languages, landscapes, and lifeways in all its diversity and difference. The companion contains authoritative entries from leading specialists from and on the region and offers clear, concise, and illuminating explanations of key themes and ideas. A hands-on, practical, and comprehensive guide to Northeast India, this companion fills a significant gap in the literature and will be an invaluable teaching, learning, and research resource for scholars and students of Northeast India Studies, South Asian and Southeast Asian societies, culture, politics, humanities, and the social sciences in general.

Author : Surinder Jodhka
Publisher : OUP India
ISBN 13 : 9780198092070
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interrogating India's Modernity written by Surinder Jodhka and published by OUP India. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by seminal commentators on contemporary Indian society, this volume outlines the state of current scholarship on the issues of caste, ethnicity, modernity, identity, and democracy in India, and a comprehensive survey of the debates and contestations in these fields. It has been put together in the honour of Professor Dipankar Gupta, whose significant contribution to Indian sociology has defined the way sociology is learnt, taught, and practiced in South Asia.

Author : M Manisha
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 184331813X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Democracy written by M Manisha and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Indian Democracy’ is an attempt to understand the development of democratic polity in India. It covers a wide range of issues – theoretical concepts, political institutions, federalism, electoral process, individual and group rights and mass media – drawing attention to the significant broadening of Indian democracy.

Author : Jason Frank
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813143888
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Political Companion to Herman Melville written by Jason Frank and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist in the traditional sense and his philosophy is notoriously difficult to categorize, his work is nevertheless deeply political in its own right. As editor Jason Frank notes in his introduction to A Political Companion to Herman Melville, Melville's writing "strikes a note of dissonance in the pre-established harmonies of the American political tradition." This unique volume explores Melville's politics by surveying the full range of his work -- from Typee (1846) to the posthumously published Billy Budd (1924). The contributors give historical context to Melville's writings and place him in conversation with political and theoretical debates, examining his relationship to transcendentalism and contemporary continental philosophy and addressing his work's relevance to topics such as nineteenth-century imperialism, twentieth-century legal theory, the anti-rent wars of the 1840s, and the civil rights movement. From these analyses emerges a new and challenging portrait of Melville as a political thinker of the first order, one that will establish his importance not only for nineteenth-century American political thought but also for political theory more broadly.

Author : Ashutosh Varshney
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 935118434X
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battles Half Won written by Ashutosh Varshney and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively collection of essays by Ashutosh Varshney analyses the deepening of Indian democracy since 1947 and the challenges this has created. It examines concerns ranging from federalism and Hindu nationalism to caste conflict and civil society, the north–south economic divide, and politics of economic reforms. Accompanied by a substantial overview tracing the forging and consolidation of India’s improbable democracy, the book, full of original insights, portrays the successes and failures of our experience in a new comparative perspective, enriching our understanding of the idea of democracy.

Author : Bidyut Chakrabarty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134132689
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Suhas Palshikar
Publisher : Oxford India Short Introductio
ISBN 13 : 9780199479603
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Democracy written by Suhas Palshikar and published by Oxford India Short Introductio. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India's democracy often receives extreme responses of exaggerated appreciation or enlarged criticism. It is necessary that public debates on democracy in India are based on a more informed analysis. This short introduction will help the reader to put the various debated issues in perspective and arrive at a critical appreciation of the endeavour called democracy. The book takes the reader through a tour of key issues of contestations and mobilization that have occupied the terrain of democratic politics in India. Calling India's democracy 'work in progress', this short tract draws attention to the central paradoxes of Indian democracy. While taking a long term view of democracy, the book is alive to the more contemporary challenges as well. Readers may agree or disagree, but they cannot ignore the central argument that while India's democracy wades through many paradoxes, it faces the challenge of distortion if majoritarian tendencies become pervasive and if the core feature of diversity is weakened. This book is a timely warning about the possibilities and distortions that democracy in India contains.