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Development and Democracy in India » Read Now
by Shalendra D. Sharma. 281 pgs.

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Examining the relationship between democratic governance and economic development in post-independence India, this book addresses the paradox of India's political economy.
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Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy » Read Now
by Judith M. Brown. 464 pgs.

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A new edition of this widely used text covers the last two centuries of Indian history, concluding with an epilogue written from the perspective of the 1990s. It thematically and analytically discusses the emergence of India as one of the world's largest democracies and one of the most stable of the...
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A new edition of this widely used text covers the last two centuries of Indian history, concluding with an epilogue written from the perspective of the 1990s. It thematically and analytically discusses the emergence of India as one of the world's largest democracies and one of the most stable of the states to emerge from the experience of colonialism. The foundations of this rare phenomenon in either Asia or Africa are seen in India's society, the ideas and beliefs of her people, and the institutions of government and politics which have developed on the subcontinent, in a process of interaction between what was indigenous to India and the many external influences brought to bear on the country by economic, political, and ideological contact with the Western world.
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Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India » Read Now
by David Ludden. 349 pgs.

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...and the Politics of Democracy in India Edited by David...and the politics of democracy in India / edited by David...Indias constitutional democracy. Communalism is...
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The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India » Read Now
by Thomas Blom Hansen. 293 pgs.

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The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recent events in the world's largest democracy, India. Here he analyzes Indian receptivity to the right-wing...
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The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recent events in the world's largest democracy, India. Here he analyzes Indian receptivity to the right-wing Hindu nationalist party and its political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which claims to create a polity based on "ancient" Hindu culture. Rather than interpreting Hindu nationalism as a mainly religious phenomenon, or a strictly political movement Hansen places the BJP within the context of the larger transformations of democratic governance in India.
Hansen demonstrates that democratic transformation has enabled such developments as political mobilization among the lower castes and civil protections for religious minorities. Against this backdrop, the Hindu nationalist movement has successfully articulated the anxieties and desires of the lange and amorphous Indian middle class. A form of conservative populism, the movement has attracted not only privileged groups fearing encroachment on their dominant positions but also "plebe
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Nehru and Democracy: The Political Thought of an Asian Democrat » Read Now
by Donald Eugene Smith. 194 pgs.

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...the goal of self-rule for India. Democracy meant freedom from foreign...the development of modern democracy in India. During the struggle for independence...essential for...
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Toward Empowerment: Women and Movement Politics in India » Read Now
by Leslie J. Calman. 230 pgs.

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Democracies of Unfreedom: The United States and India » Read Now
by Brij Mohan. 174 pgs.

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The United States and India--the most powerful and the most populous constitutional democracies, respectively--have more in common than is apparent from a casual comparison of life in, say, Agra and Omaha. While the material circumstances of an average family in the one city may be dramatically...
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The United States and India--the most powerful and the most populous constitutional democracies, respectively--have more in common than is apparent from a casual comparison of life in, say, Agra and Omaha. While the material circumstances of an average family in the one city may be dramatically different from the circumstances of its counterpart in the other, the political cultures that protect and sometimes encroach upon the freedoms of each family are in many ways remarkably similar. The arrogant ambitions of one of Agra's representatives in New Delhi can likely find a match in the designs of one of Omaha's legislators in Washington, D.C. So, too, could we expect to find sincere concern for their constituents in the hearts of other political figures on Capitol Hill and in the Subcontinent. In this probing critical comparison of political culture in the United States and India, Professor Brij Mohan argues that much can be learned about the parochial roots and global expansion of representative government by studying both the successes and the failures--both the promise and disappointment--of these two great experiments in constitutional democracy.
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India Multicultural Democracy at the Millennium, in World Policy Journal » Read Now
by Mira Kamdar. 9 pgs.

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...Policy Institute . India Multicultural Democracy at the Millennium...that took place in India last April and May provided a spectacle of democracy of inimitable...
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Review Essay: Democracy at Work in Kerala, India, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars » Read Now
by Govindan Parayil. 5 pgs.

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...at Work in Kerala, India by Govindan Parayil Democracy at Work in an Indian...numerous scholars; Democracy at Work adds to this...underpaid in all of India, and smoked...
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India's Democratic Economic Transformation, in Challenge » Read Now
by Surendra Kaushik. 8 pgs.

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Indian Democracy after 52 Years, in World and I » Read Now
by Teresita C. Schaffer. 6 pgs.

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Warriors in Politics: Hindu Nationalism, Violence, and the Shiv Sena in India (Chap. 7 "The Future of Secular Democracy") » Read Now
by Sikata Banerjee. 210 pgs.

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Sikata Banerjee is assistant professor of political science at the University of Lethbridge in Canada.
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Ethnic Conflict in India: A Case-Study of Punjab (Chap. 3 "Reassessing 'Conventional Wisdom': Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict, and India as an Ethnic Democracy") » Read Now
by Gurharpal Singh. 231 pgs.

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This important new book critically evaluates the conventional reading of ethnicity and ethnic conflict in contemporary Indian politics. By focusing on India's nation and state-building in the peripheral regions since 1947, in particular Punjab, it argues that there is a case for considering India as...
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This important new book critically evaluates the conventional reading of ethnicity and ethnic conflict in contemporary Indian politics. By focusing on India's nation and state-building in the peripheral regions since 1947, in particular Punjab, it argues that there is a case for considering India as an ethnic democracy. The long-term development of ethno-nationalist separatist movements and the future character of Indian democracy is assessed in light of the challenge posed by the rise of Hindutva forces, the demise of the Nehruvian state, and the internal political and economic pressures towards regionalization.
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