Democracy in India
By: edited by Niraja Gopal Jayal.
Contributors: Jayal, Niraja Gopal.
Series: Themes in politics series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 571
Subjects: Democracy -- India.; Civil society -- India.; India -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [535]-550) and index.
Table of contents: title: 'Democracy under the Raj : elections and separate representation in British India / James Chiriyankandath; title: The rhetoric of democracy and development in late colonial India / David Washbrook; title: The crisis of the moderate state and the decline of democracy / Rajni Kothari; title: Political change in a democratic developing country / Atul Kohli; title: Demand polity and command polity / Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph; title: The state and democracy in India or what happened to welfare, secularism, and development / Niraja Gopal Jayal; title: The culture of representative democracy / Sudipta Kaviraj; title: Power and knowledge in development discourse : new social movements and the state in India / Pramod Parajuli; title: The democratic rite: celebration and participation in the Indian elections / Walter Hauser and Wendy Singer; title: Hunger and public action / Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen; title: The puzzle of Indian democracy : a consociational interpretation / Arend Lijphart; title: Economic development and political democracy : interaction of economics and politics in independent India / Deepak Nayyar; title: The political economy of reform in India / Pranab Bardhan; title: Ballot box and local power: elections in an Indian village / Subrata K. Mitra; title: Democracy and decentralization in Karnataka (India) / Richard C. Crook and James Manor; title: The anti-caste movement and the discourse of power / Gail Omvedt; title: Hindu nationalism and democracy / Christophe Jaffrelot.