Routledge handbook of Indian politics

India's growing economic and socio-political importance on the global stage has triggered an increased interest in the country. This Handbook is a reference guide, which surveys the current state of Indian politics and provides a basic understanding of the ways in which the world's largest...

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Other Authors: Kohli, Atul (Editor), Singh, Prerna 1979- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London Routledge 2013
Series:Routledge handbooks
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Political Change.
  • The Historical Inheritance of India's Democracy
  • Gandhi's India, the World's Gandhi: Gandhi at Home and in the World
  • Nehru and his legacy
  • India's Minority Leaders
  • Panchayati Raj Institutions
  • The Changing Fortunes of the Bharatiya Janata Party
  • Regional and Caste parties
  • Caste and Political Parties in India: Do Indians vote their caste-while casting their vote?
  • Dalit Politics: Untouchability, Identity and Assertion
  • Class Politics in India: Euphemization, Voting, and Power
  • Reservations
  • The State and Civil Society in Communal Violence: Sparks and Fires
  • Insurgencies in India
  • People's Movements in India
  • Part II: Political Economy: Economic and social development.
  • India's economic development
  • The State and the Capitalist Class in India
  • Politics and Redistribution in India
  • Corruption in India
  • Public goods provision and social development in India /-- Labor Regulation, Trade Unions and Unemployment
  • Part III: Diversity of Regional Developments
  • Uttar Pradesh: New Patterns of Mobilization in the 1990s and Beyond
  • Kerala in Comparative Perspective: Movements, Politics and Democracy
  • Tamil Nadu
  • West Bengal
  • Bihar
  • Part IV: India and the World
  • India and the World: The Vicissitudes of Mutual Adjustment
  • India in Asia: Geostrategic and economic considerations
  • The Indo-Pakistani Conflict
  • India and Nuclear Weapons
  • India's evolving security strategy-- International Migration and its consequences for India