Indian government and politics
By: Bidyut Chakrabarty, Rajendra Kumar Pandey.
Contributors: Pandey, Rajendra Kumar.
Publisher: SAGE Publications; Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Delhi; Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9788178298818
Subjects: Constitutional history -- India; Public administration -- India; India -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Salient features of the Indian constitution; title: Founding fetters of the constitution; title: The preamble; title: Fundamental rights; title: Fundamental duties; title: Directive principles of state policy; title: Federalism; title: Parliamentary system; title: Amending procedures; title: Concluding observations; title: Federalism; title: Demystifying Indian polity; title: Federalism in India; title: The federal arrangement: its evolution; title: Concluding observations; title: The executive system in theory and practice; title: Adopting the executive system; title: The president; title: The prime minister; title: The council of ministers; title: Bureaucracy; title: Concluding observations; title: Parliament; title: A thoughtful choice; title: Limitations/features of Indian parliament; title: Composition of the parliament; title: Rajya sabha; title: Lok Sabha; title: Changing socio-economic profile; title: Parliamentary committees; title: Concluding observations; title: State executive; title: Features of the state executive; title: Office of the governor; title: Chief minister; title: The council of ministers; title: Concluding observations; title: The judiciary; title: Perspectives of the constituent assembly; title: Supreme court; title: High courts; title: Judicial review; title: Public interest litigation; title: Judicial activism; title: Judicial reforms; title: Union public service commission; title: Election commission; title: Comptroller and auditor general; title: Finance commission; title: Concluding observations; title: Planning and economic development; title: Concept of planned development; title: Genesis and development of planning in India; title: Role of the planning commmission; title: Planning in the era of liberalization; title: Concluding observations; title: Statutory institutions and commissions; title: National commission for backward classes; title: National commission for women; title: National human rights commission; title: National commission for minorities; title: Concluding observations; title: The Indian party system; title: Evolution of the Indian party system; title: Coalition governments at the centre and the states; title: Pressure groups in Indian politics; title: Elites in Indian party system; title: Contemporary trends in Indian party system; title: Concluding observations; title: The evolution of Indian administration; title: Genesis of administration in India; title: Aspects of the Mughal administration; title: Legacies of the British rule; title: Developments during the rule of the company; title: Developments in Indian administration since 1857; title: Concluding observations; title: Panchayati governance in India; title: Local self government in India; title: Structure of the Panchayati Raj institutions; title: Powers and functions of the Panchayats; title: Role of women and other marginalized sections of the society rural development: Panchayats and the bureaucracy; title: Issues in effective functioning of the Panchayats; title: Role of Panchayati Raj in the era of liberlization; title: Concluding observations; title: Major issues in Indian politics; title: Mandal II: reservation for social justice or appropriation by the creamy layer? Religion and Indian politics; title: Economic reforms and Indian politics; title: Deepening of democracy; title: Gender; title: Environment; title: Concluding observations; title: Conclusion; title: Model questions; title: Index; title: About the authors.