Politics in India : structure, process and policy /
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Table of Contents:
- 1.Introduction: modern politics and traditional society in the making of Indian democracy
- Some puzzles of India's politics
- Democracy and elite agency: the `room to manoeuvre in the middle'
- Democratic legitimacy and current policy challenges
- The distinctiveness of Indian politics: resilience of democracy and governance
- Level playing fields: the multiple roles of the state in India
- Eternal, enduring and changing: India's non-linear modernity
- Competition for power as the cutting edge of India's political culture
- Multiple modes of politics
- The scheme of chapters
- Conclusion
- 2.Pre-modern pasts of modern politics: the legacies of British colonial rule
- Introduction
- India's living pasts
- `Arrested decay': colonial representations of the Indian past
- Institutional innovation under colonial rule: re-use of the Indian pasts
- The expansion of the British Empire
- The British Raj and Indian resistance
- The Gandhian synthesis of modernity and tradition
- `Divide and quit': Independence and the bitter aftermath of Partition
- Some legacies of colonial rule
- Conclusion
- 3.From homo hierarchicus to plural society: politics and social change in India
- Introduction
- From hierarchy to plurality
- The Indian mosaic
- Caste and politics
- Religion: unity in diversity
- Language
- Social class
- Political socialization and political culture
- The interaction of tradition and modernity
- Political socialization
- Efficacy and legitimacy in India
- Conclusion
- 4.Strength with democracy: separation of powers and the imperative of leadership
- Introduction
- Modern political institutions and traditional society
- The executive
- The parliament
- The judiciary
- The bureaucracy
- Statutory commissions
- The military
- Political recruitment
- Conclusion
- 5.The federal structure: balancing unity and diversity
- Introduction
- The federal structure
- Sub-national movements and federalization: a coping mechanism
- India's cooperative federalism
- Measuring federalism's success
- Combining strength with accountability: Indian federalism in cross-national comparison
- Institutional changes since Independence
- Power-sharing and the federalization of national politics
- Conclusion
- 6.The articulation and aggregation of interests: India's two-track strategy
- Introduction
- Institutional complexity, policy coherence and continuity
- Elections
- The party system
- The Congress system
- Parties of Hindu nationalism and communism
- Partisan conflict within the structure of overall systemic consensus
- Interest articulation: demand groups in India
- Trade unions and employers' associations
- Local politics: democracy at the grass-roots level
- Interest articulation and the `new' political economy
- Conclusion
- 7.Economic development and social justice
- Introduction
- Incremental growth and redistribution
- Distinctiveness of the Indian model
- The origin and evolution of a mixed economy
- Politics, the Planning Commission and the policy process under Nehru, 1947-64
- India's agrarian economy: from subsistence to subsidy
- The dilemma of democratic land reform
- Democracy and liberalization of the economy
- Globalization of India's economy
- Definition and measurement of globalization
- Mass poverty and India's `new' political economy
- Conclusion
- 8.Engaging the world: foreign policy and nation-building in India
- Introduction
- Strategy and context in the making of India's foreign policy
- Domestic and international constraints on foreign policy
- A chronology of wars and treaties of `non-aligned' India
- The evolution of India's foreign policy
- The foundational years: Jawaharlal Nehru, 1947-64
- Indira Gandhi and the realist turn in Indian foreign policy
- India's search for power in a post-cold war, multi-polar world
- Challenges for Indian foreign policy in the twenty-first century
- Global and regional security regimes
- A thaw in India-China relations
- India and her South Asian neighbours
- India and the Indian Ocean
- India and the United States: from ambivalence to engagement
- India - still an emerging power?
- India's military capacity
- Soft power: foreign policy and popular perception in India
- Conclusion
- 9.Conclusion: some general lessons from the Indian case
- Introduction
- The political context of Indian democracy
- The non-linear modernity of India: the distinctive style of Indian politics
- Democracy and development reconsidered
- Governance: balancing national unity and regional diversity
- Ethnicity and territoriality as competing norms of citizenship in India
- Conclusion: re-inventing the nation
- 10.Further reading
- General
- Democracy and the modern institutions of India
- Social change: from hierarchy to equality
- The economy
- International relations.