Routledge handbook of Indian politics 9780415776851, 9781138679191, 9780203075906, 1997171201, 0415776856, 1138679194

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Table of contents :
Introduction: Politics in India--an overview / Atul Kohli and Prerna Singh --
Part 1: Political Change. The Historical Inheritance of India’s Democracy / Maya Tudor --
Gandhi’s India, the World’s Gandhi
Gandhi at Home and in the World / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph --
Nehru and his legacy / Jivanta Schoettli --
India’s Minority Leaders / Niraja Gopal Jayal --
Panchayati Raj Institutions / Rani D. Mullen --
The Changing Fortunes of the Bharatiya Janata Party / Amrita Basu --
Regional and Caste parties / Suhas Palshikar --
Caste and Political Parties in India: Do Indians vote their caste--while casting their vote? / Christophe Jaffrelot --
Dalit Politics: Untouchability, Identity, and Assertion / Hugo Gorringe --
Class Politics in India: Euphemization, Identity, and Power / Ronald J. Herring --
Reservations / Gurpreet Mahajan --
The State and Civil Society in Communal Violence: Sparks and Fires / Ashutosh Varshney and Joshua Gubler --
Insurgencies in India / Paul Staniland --
People’s Movements in India / Jennifer Bussell --
Part 2: Political Economy: Economic and social development. India’s economic development / R. Nagaraj --
The State and the Capitalist Class in India / Vivek Chibber and Adaner Usmani --
Politics and Redistribution in India / John Harriss --
Corruption in India / Stuart Corbridge --
Public goods provision and social development in India / Prerna Singh --
Labor Regulation, Trade Unions and Unemployment / Emmanuel Teitelbaum --
Part 3: Diversity of Regional Developments. Uttar Pradesh: New Patterns of Mobilization in the 1990s and Beyond / Sudha Pai --
Kerala in Comparative Perspective: Movements, Politics and Democracy / Patrick Heller --
Tamil Nadu / Adam Ziegfeld --
West Bengal / Manali Desai --
Bihar / Jeffrey Witsoe --
Part 4: India and the World. India and the World: The vicissitudes of mutual adjustment / Baldev Raj Nayar --
India in Asia: Geostrategic and economic considerations / Lawrence Sáez --
The Indo-Pakistani Conflict / Sumit Ganguly --
India and Nuclear Weapons / Kanti Bajpai --
India's evolving security strategy / Vipin Narang --
International Migration and its consequences for India / Devesh Kapur.

Routledge handbook of Indian politics
 9780415776851, 9781138679191, 9780203075906, 1997171201, 0415776856, 1138679194

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