Politics in India/
edited by Sudipta Kaviraj
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008.
- ix, 404 p. ; 23 cm.
- (Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology) .
Power and territory / Louis Dumont -- Caste and modern politics / Rajni Kothari -- Caste and political group formation in Tamilnad / André Béteille -- The nation and its outcasts / Partha Chatterjee -- On the diversity of ruling traditions / Satish Saberwal -- On the construction of colonial power: structure, discourse, hegemony / Sudipta Kaviraj -- The study of state and society in India / Nicholas Dirks -- Regime types and economic performance / Lloyd I. Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph. Pursuing equality: an assessment of India's policy of compensatory discrimination for disadvantaged groups / Marc Galanter -- The politicization of the peasantry in a north Indian state / Paul R. Brass -- Ethnicity and politics / Dipankar Gupta -- Minority identities / Myron Weiner -- Karnataka: caste, class, dominance and politics in a cohesive society / James Manor -- Jana Sangh and social interests / Bruce Graham -- Communalism as false consciousness / Bipan Chandra -- Communalism as construction / Gyanendra Pandey. Sikh fundamentalism / Harjot Oberoi -- A critique of modernist secularism / Ashis Nandy -- Secularism in its place / T.N. Madan -- Two concepts of secularism / Akeel Bilgrami -- Decline of a social order / Francine R. Frankel -- Crisis of governability / Atul Kohli.
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