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Niraja Gopal Jayal
ISBN: 9780195655612
Format: Hardback
Publisher:OUP India
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This volume presents a collection of articles on democracy and politics in India right from the pre-independence days to 2000. The range of issues covered includes: democracy and the state, democracy and the civil society, democracy and development, and democracy, locality and region.
This volume presents a collection of articles on democracy and politics in India right from the pre-independence days to the present. The range of issues covered includes: democracy prefigured, democracy and the state, democracy and the civil society, democracy and development, and democracy, locality and region. The editorial introduction by Niraja Jayal highlights the theoretical nuances of democracy as a concept and points to its relevance and importance in the context of the political process in India.
| ISBN | 0195655613 | | Pages | 512 | | ISBN13 | 9780195655612
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | OUP India | | Weight (grammes) | 866 | | Imprint | OUP India | | Published in | New Delhi | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Oxford in India Readings: Themes in Politics S. | | Publication date | 01 Jun 2001 | | Height (mm) | 210 | | Library of Congress | DS | | Width (mm) | 140 | | DEWEY | 321.80954 | | Spine width (mm) | 38 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | List of Tables | | | | | | List of Figures | | | | | | List of Contributors | | | | | | Introduction by Niraja Gopal Jayal | | 1 | | I | | Indian Democracy Prefigured | | 51 | | 1 | | 'Democracy' Under the Raj: Elections and Separate Representation in British India by James Chiriyankandath | | 53 | | 2 | | The Rhetoric of Democracy and Development in Late Colonial India by David Washbrook | | 82 | | II | | Democracy and the State | | 97 | | 3 | | The Crisis of the Moderate State and the Decline of Democracy by Rajni Kothari | | 101 | | 4 | | Political Change in a Democratic Developing Country by Atul Kohli | | 128 | | 5 | | Demand Polity and Command Polity by Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph | | 153 | | 6 | | The State and Democracy in India or What Happened to Welfare, Secularism, and Development by Niraja Gopal Jayal | | 193 | | III | | Democracy and Civil Society | | 225 | | 7 | | The Culture of Representative Democracy by Sudipta Kaviraj | | 229 | | 8 | | Power and Knowledge in Development Discourse: New Social Movements and the State in India by Pramod Parajuli | | 258 | | 9 | | The Democratic Rite: Celebration and Participation in the Indian Elections by Walter Hauser and Wendy Singer | | 289 | | 10 | | Hunger and Public Action by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen | | 311 | | 11 | | The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation by Arend Lijphart | | 326 | | IV | | Democracy and Development | | 359 | | 12 | | Economic Development and Political Democracy: Interaction of Economics and Politics in Independent India by Deepak Nayyar | | 361 | | 13 | | The Political Economy of Reform in India by Pranab Bardhan | | 397 | | V | | Democracy, Locality, and Region | | 415 | | | More... | | |
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