TY - BOOK AU - Kaviraj, Sudipta, ed. TI - Politics in India SN - 0195648730 U1 - 320.954 PY - 2008/// CY - New Delhi PB - Oxford University Press KW - Politics and government KW - Social conditions KW - Religion and politics KW - Caste--Political aspects N1 - 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 ER -