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020 _a9780195655612
041 _aeng
082 _a321.80954
_bDEM
245 _aDemocracy in India.
_cEdited by Niraja Gopal Jayal
260 _bOxford University Press,
_aNew Delhi:
_c2001
300 _axxii, 571 p.
440 _aThemes in Politics Series.
_913768
490 _aOxford in India readings., Themes in politics.
505 _a '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.
520 _aThis 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.
650 _aDemocracy
_zIndia
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650 _aPolitics and government. Democracy.
_zIndia
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690 _aPolitics and government.
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690 _aDemocracy-India
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700 _aJayal, Niraja Gopal
_4edited by
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