At Home with Democracy A Theory of Indian Politics /
This book presents numerous discussions of specific aspects of democratic politics, showing how 'democracy' can be projected as a model of deliberate imperfection - a model that tolerates various loose ends in the system - and how democracy recognizes a multiplicity of possible courses ope...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: 'A Political theory of Indian Democracy' by Peter Ronald deSouza
- Section I: State, Nation, Democracy
- Chapter 1: Historicizing India's Nationhood: History as Contemporary Politics
- Chapter 2: State-Nation Building: The Making of Liberal Democracy
- Chapter 3: Crisis of Political Authority
- Section II: Parapolitics of Democracy
- Chapter 4: Civil Society and Non-party Political Formations
- Chapter 5: Transformative Politics of Grassroots Movements
- Chapter 6: Law and Outcasts of Development
- Section III: Social Power and Democracy
- Chapter 7: Secularization of Caste and the Making of the New Middle-Class
- Chapter 8: The Dalit Question in Four Frames
- Chapter 12: The Great Language Debate: Politics of Metropolitan Versus Vernacular India
- Section IV: Representation in Liberal Democracy
- Chapter 10: Interests and Identities: The Changing Politics of Representation
- Chapter 11: Minority Politics: The Shifting Terms of Policy Discourse
- Chapter 12: Growth of Communal Polarization in Gujarat and the Making of a Hindutva Laboratory
- Section V: Emerging Challenges of Democracy
- Chapter 13: Revisiting the Reservations Policy
- Chapter 14: Entering the Twenty-first Century: Changes in National Politics and Discourse
- Chapter 15: Democratizing Global Governance: A Minimalist Perspective.
