Political Science In India

Author : Janaki Srinivasan
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262370379
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Lives of Information written by Janaki Srinivasan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development. Information, says Janaki Srinivasan, has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice. In this study, she examines the history of the idea of “information” and its political implications for poverty alleviation. She presents three cases in India—the circulation of price information in a fish market in Kerala, government information in information kiosks operated by a nonprofit in Puducherry, and a political campaign demanding a right to information in Rajasthan—to explore three uses of information to support goals of social change. Countering claims that information is naturally and universally empowering, Srinivasan shows how the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender. Srinivasan draws on archival and ethnographic research to challenge the idea of information as objective and factual. Using the concept of an “information order,” she examines how the meaning and value of information reflect the social relations in which it is embedded. She asks why casting information as a tool of development and solution to poverty appeals to actors across the political spectrum. She also shows how the power to label some things information and others not is at least as significant as the capacity to subsequently produce, access, and leverage information. The more faith we place in what information can do, she cautions, the less attention we pay to its political lives and to the role of specific social structures, individual agency, and material form in the defining, production, and use of that information.

Author : Jacob Copeman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745115
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hematologies written by Jacob Copeman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices. Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contemporary portraits of political leaders drawn with blood, from the use of the substance by Bhopali children as a material of activism to biomedical anxieties and aporias about the excess and lack of donation, Hematologies broaches how political life in India has been shaped through the use of blood and through contestations about blood. As such, the authors offer new entryways into thinking about politics and economy through a "bloodscape of difference": different sovereignties; different proportionalities; and different temporalities. These entryways allow the authors to explore the relation between blood's utopic flows and political clottings as it moves through time and space, conjuring new kinds of social collectivities while reanimating older forms, and always in a reflexive relation to norms that guide its proper flow.

Author : Aseema Sinha
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253344045
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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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 : Aakash Singh Rathore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315284197
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Political Theory written by Aakash Singh Rathore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-02-24 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At present, a nativist turn in Indian political theory can be observed. There is a general assumption that the indigenous thought to which researchers are supposed to be (re)turning may somehow be immediately visible by ignoring the colonization of the mind and polity. In such a conception of svaraj (which can be translated as ‘authentic autonomy’), the tradition to be returned to would be that of the indigenous elites. In this book, this concept of svaraj is defined as a thick conception, which links it with exclusivist notions of spirituality, profound anti-modernity, exceptionalistic moralism, essentialistic nationalism and purism. However, post-independence India has borne witness to an alternative trajectory: a thin svaraj. The author puts forward a workable contemporary ideal of thin svaraj, i.e. political, and free of metaphysical commitment. The model proposed is inspired by B.R. Ambedkar's thoughts, as opposed to the thick conception found in the works of M.K. Gandhi, KC Bhattacharya and Ramachandra Gandhi. The author argues that political theorists of Indian politics continue to work with categories and concepts alien to the lived social and political experiences of India's common man, or everyday people. Consequently, he emphasises the need to decolonize Indian political theory, and rescue it from the grip of western theories, and fascination with western modes of historical analysis. The necessity to avoid both universalism and relativism and more importantly address the political predicaments of ‘the people’ is the key objective of the book, and a push for a reorientation of Indian political theory. An interesting new interpretation of a contemporary ideal of svaraj, this analysis takes into account influences from other cultures and sources as well as eschews thick conceptions that stifle imaginations and imaginaries. This book will be of interest to academics in the fields of philosophy, political science, sociology, literature and cultural studies in general and contemporary political theory, South Asian and Indian politics and political theory in particular.

Author : Rajni Kothari
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125000723
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics in India written by Rajni Kothari and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1970 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed to be by far the most sophisticated general study on Indian politics. Politics in India unfolds, here with insight and acumen and the vastness and confusion of the Indian political scene is elaborately discussed. This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the Indian political system examined from different vantage points and drawing together the contribution of various disciplines into a common framework.

Author : Arora
Publisher : Tata McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 13 : 9780071074780
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Science written by Arora and published by Tata McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Partha Chatterjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Possible India written by Partha Chatterjee and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary: Post 1947 political situation in India.

Author : Ghosh, Peu
Publisher : PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9389347866
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book INDIAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS, Third Edition written by Ghosh, Peu and published by PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After years of subjugation by the British colonial rulers, India attained a status of Independent State on 15 August 1947, a day to be reckoned with pride by all Indians. Struggling for her Independence, facing the trauma of partition, and finally establishing a sovereign democratic status for itself, the journey has undoubtedly been a roller coaster ride for India. This book comprehensively outlines the evolution of the Indian Politics, discussing all the constraints, challenges and shortcomings faced by Indian Polity till date. The book shows how State-Society interface, with special emphasis on civil society activities, can play an integral role in shaping the political fate of the country. In addition, this book not only presents the institutional aspects of Indian politics by underlying in details, the provisions of the Constitution, but also brings out the real working of the institutional framework in an ever-changing social and political environment. Organized into 23 chapters, the book discusses, in detail, the Constitutional development, The Preamble, The Fundamental Rights, The Directive Principles of State Policy, The Executive, The Legislature and The Judiciary at national and state levels followed by their critical appraisals as well as the Centre-State relation with its continuing tensions. To give a clear and panoramic view of Indian Political Scenario the book also focuses on local-self governments, national and regional parties in India, challenges to Indian political system and new social movements. THIRD EDITION HALLMARK • Thorough updation with contemporary events in Indian political scenario. • Coverage of General elections to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha. • Political Developments of recent times. Intended as a textbook for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of Political Science and Law, this book is also useful for the aspirants for Civil Service and competitive examinations like NET and SLET. KEY FEATURES • Gives a wide coverage of conventional topics pertaining to the Constitution of India, relating them to the working of the Indian polity in the real world. • Tackles issues related to new social movements in India encompassing environmental movements, women's movements, human rights movements and anti-corruption movement. • Highlights the continuing challenges to the Indian Political System from different social and cultural factors, like religion, language, caste, tribe, regionalism and also corruption and criminalization of politics. • Deals with current developments in administrative policies.

Author : A. K. Chaturvedi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788185185651
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictionary Of Political Science written by A. K. Chaturvedi and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peu Ghosh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788120353183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Indian Government and Politics written by Peu Ghosh and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the evolution of Indian politics, discussing all the constraints, challenges and shortcomings faced by the Indian polity. The book shows how the state-society interface, with special emphasis on civil society activities, can play an integral role in shaping the political fate of the country. It also presents the institutional aspects of Indian politics.