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Democracy in India
Niraja Gopal Jayal
Themes in Politics
Table of Contents
List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Contributors;
Introduction (Niraja Gopal Jayal):
I INDIAN DEMOCRACY PREFIGURED
1:Democracy under the Raj: Elections and Separate Representation in British India (James Chiriyankandath);
2:The Rhetoric of Democracy and Development in Late Colonial India (David Washbrook);
II DEMOCRACY AND THE STATE
3:The Crisis of the Moderate State and the Decline of Democracy (Rajni Kothari);
4:Political Change in a Democratic Developing Country (Atul Kohli);
5:Demand Polity and command Polity (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph);
6:The State and Democracy in India or What happened to Welfare, Secularism, and Development (Niraja Gopal Jayal;
III DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY
7:The Culture of representative Democracy (Sudipta Kaviraj);
8:Power and Knowledge in Development Discourse: New Social Movements and the State in India (Pramod Parajuli);
9:The Democratic Rite: Celebration and Participation in the Indian Elections (Walter Hauser and Wendy Singer);
10:Hunger and Public Action; (Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen);
11:The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation (Arend Lijphart);
IV DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT
12:Economic Development and Political Democracy: Interaction and Economies and Politics in Independent India (Deepak Nayyar);
13:The Political Economy of Reform in India (Pranab Bardhan); V DEMOCRACY, LOCALITY, AND REGION
14:Ballot Box and Local Power: Elections in an Indian Village (Subrata K. Mitra);
15:Democracy and Decentralization in Karnataka (India) (Richard C. Crook and James Manor) ;
VI THE FUTURE OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY
16:The Anti-caste Movement and the Discourse of Power (Gail Omvedt);
17:Hindu Nationalism and Democracy (Christophe Jaffrelot);
Annotated Bibliography: Name Index; Subject Index.