TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jayal, Niraja Gopal 
TI  - Democracy in India
T2  - Oxford in India readings., Themes in politics
SN  - 9780195655612
U1  - 321.80954 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - New Delhi: 
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - India
KW  - Politics and government. Democracy
N1  - 	'Democracy under the Raj : elections and separate representation in British India / James Chiriyankandath --
The rhetoric of democracy and development in late colonial India / David Washbrook --
The crisis of the moderate state and the decline of democracy / Rajni Kothari --
Political change in a democratic developing country / Atul Kohli --
Demand polity and command polity / Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph --
The state and democracy in India or what happened to welfare, secularism, and development / Niraja Gopal Jayal --
The culture of representative democracy / Sudipta Kaviraj --
Power and knowledge in development discourse : new social movements and the state in India / Pramod Parajuli --
The democratic rite: celebration and participation in the Indian elections / Walter Hauser and Wendy Singer --
Hunger and public action / Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen --
The puzzle of Indian democracy : a consociational interpretation / Arend Lijphart --
Economic development and political democracy : interaction of economics and politics in independent India / Deepak Nayyar --
The political economy of reform in India / Pranab Bardhan --
Ballot box and local power: elections in an Indian village / Subrata K. Mitra --
Democracy and decentralization in Karnataka (India) / Richard C. Crook and James Manor --
The anti-caste movement and the discourse of power / Gail Omvedt --
Hindu nationalism and democracy / Christophe Jaffrelot
N2  - This volume brings together the finest scholarly writings on several dimensions of India's democracy. It analyzes India's experiment with democracy and its successes and failures. It also situates Indian democracy in the context of the basic principles of democratic theory as well as contemporary debates about the relationship of democracy with civil society, cultural diversity, and development.
ER  -