Parties and party politics in India
By: edited by Zoya Hasan.
Contributors: Hasan, Zoya.
Series: Themes in politics series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 566
Subjects: Political parties -- India.; India -- Politics and government -- 1947-
Notes: "Annotated bibliography": p. [533]-545.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: 1. The Congress "System" in India / Rajni Kothari; title: 2. Social cleavages, elections, and the Indian party system / Pradeep K. Chibber, John R. Petrocik; title: 3. Mrs. Gandhi's pyramid : the new Congress / Stanley A. Kochanek; title: 4. The United colours of Congress : social profile of Congress voters, 1996 and 1998 / Anthony Heath, Yogendra Yadav; title: 5. The leadership and organization of the Jana Sangh, 1951 to 1967 / B.D. Graham; title: 6. A specific party-building strategy : The Jana Sangha and the RSS network / Christophe Jaffrelot; title: 7. Anatomy of BJP's rise to power : social, regional, and political expansion in 1990s / Oliver Heath; title: 8. The rebirth of the Shiv Sena : the symbiosis of discursive and organizational power / Mary Faisnod Katezenstein, Uday Singh Mehta, Usha Thakkar; title: 9. Communist politics in search of hegemony / Javed Alam; title: 10. Parliamentary communism as a historical phenomenon : the CPI(M) in West Bengal / Amrita Basu; title: 11. The Janata phase : reorganization and redirection in Indian politics / Jyotirindra Das Gupta; title: 12. Representation and redistribution : the new lower caste politics of North India / Zoya Hasan; title: 13. Bringing society back in : ethnicity, populism, and pluralism in South India; title: 14. Parties and the party system / James Manor; title: 15. The fragmentation of the Indian party system, 1952-1999 / E.Sridharan; title: 16. The political parties and the party system : the emergence of new coalitions / Balveer Arora.