Author : Vasudha Dalmia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521516250
A wide-ranging and truly interdisciplinary guide to understanding the relationship between India's colonial past and globalized present.
Author : Kanchan Chandra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 35,36 MB
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131659212X
Dynastic politics, usually presumed to be the antithesis of democracy, is a routine aspect of politics in many modern democracies. This book introduces a new theoretical perspective on dynasticism in democracies, using original data on twenty-first-century Indian parliaments. It argues that the roots of dynastic politics lie at least in part in modern democratic institutions - states and parties - which give political families a leg-up in the electoral process. It also proposes a rethinking of the view that dynastic politics is a violation of democracy, showing that it can also reinforce some aspects of democracy while violating others. Finally, this book suggests that both reinforcement and violation are the products, not of some property intrinsic to political dynasties, but of the institutional environment from which those dynasties emerge.
Author : Alexander Lee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1108489907
From Hierarchy to Ethnicity discusses the origins of politicized caste identities in twentieth-century India, and how they evolved over time.
Author : Sir Herbert Hope Risley
Publisher :
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Anthropometry
ISBN :
Author : Susan Bayly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,18 MB
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521798426
The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Using an historical and anthropological approach, she frames her analysis within the context of India's dynamic economic and social order, interpreting caste not as an essence of Indian culture and civilization, but rather as a contingent and variable response to the changes that occurred in the subcontinent's political landscape through the colonial conquest. The idea of caste in relation to Western and Indian 'orientalist' thought is also explored.
Author : Kanchan Chandra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521891417
Why do some ethnic parties succeed in attracting the support of their target ethnic group while others fail? In a world in which ethnic parties flourish in both established and emerging democracies alike, understanding the conditions under which such parties rise and fall is of critical importance to both political scientists and policy makers. Drawing on a study of variation in the performance of ethnic parties in India, this book builds a theory of ethnic party performance in 'patronage democracies'. Chandra shows why individual voters and political entrepreneurs in such democracies condition their strategies not on party ideologies or policy platforms, but on a headcount of co-ethnics and others across party personnel and among the electorate.
Author : Tariq Thachil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107070082
Why do poor people often vote against their material interests? This puzzle has been famously studied within wealthy Western democracies, yet the fact that the poor voter paradox also routinely manifests within poor countries has remained unexplored. This book studies how this paradox emerged in India, the world's largest democracy. Tariq Thachil shows how arguments from studies of wealthy democracies (such as moral values voting) and the global south (such as patronage or ethnic appeals) cannot explain why poor voters in poor countries support parties that represent elite policy interests. He instead draws on extensive survey data and fieldwork to document a novel strategy through which elite parties can recruit the poor, while retaining the rich. He shows how these parties can win over disadvantaged voters by privately providing them with basic social services via grassroots affiliates. Such outsourcing permits the party itself to continue to represent the policy interests of their privileged base.
Author : Virginius Xaxa
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2008
Category : India
ISBN : 9788131721223
Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Dalits
ISBN : 9780231127868
Jaffrelot argues that the trend towards lower-caste representation in national politics constitutes a genuine "democratization" of India and that the social and economic effects of this "silent revolution" are bound to multiply in the years to come.
Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 113651662X
For decades, India has been a conservative democracy governed by the upper caste notables coming from the urban bourgeoisie, the landowning aristocracy and the intelligentsia. The democratisation of the ‘world’s largest democracy’ started with the rise of peasants’ parties and the politicisation of the lower castes who voted their own representatives to power as soon as they emancipated themselves from the elite’s domination. In Indian state politics, caste plays a major role and this book successfully studies how this caste-based social diversity gets translated into politics. This is the first comprehensive study of the sociological profile of Indian political personnel at the state level. It examines the individual trajectory of 16 states, from the 1950s to 2000s, according to one dominant parameter—the evolution of the caste background of their elected representatives known as Members of the Legislative Assembly, or MLAs. The study also takes into account other variables like occupation, gender, age and education.
