Indian Democracy

Origins, Trajectories, Contestations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvAlf Gunvald Nilsen,Kenneth Bo Nielsen,Anand Vaidya

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More than 70 years after its founding, with Narendra Modi's authoritarian Hindu nationalists in government, is the dream of Indian democracy still alive and well?India's pluralism has always posed a formidable challenge to its democracy, with many believing that a clash of identities based on region, language, caste, religion, ethnicity and tribe would bring about its demise. With the meteoric rise to power of the Bharatiya Janata Party, its solidity is once again called into question: is Modi's Hindu majoritarianism an anti-democratic attempt to transform India into a monolithic Hindu nation from which minorities and dissidents are forcibly excluded?With examinations of the way that class and caste power shaped the making of India's postcolonial democracy, the role of feminism, the media, and the public sphere in sustaining and challenging democracy, this book interrogates the contradictions at the heart of the Indian democratic project, examining its origins, trajectories and contestations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-03-20
Mått135 x 215 x 16 mm
Vikt415 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagPluto Press
ISBN9780745338934

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Alf Gunvald Nilsen is Professor of Sociology at University of Pretoria. He is the author of Citizenship in India's Bhil Heartland among other books.Kenneth Bo Nielsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India.Anand Vaidya is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Reed College.

Acknowledgements Introduction: Trajectories and Crossroads: Indian Democracy at 70 - Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Anand Vaidya1. Democratic Origins I: India’s Constitution and the Missing Revolution - Sandipto Dasgupta2. Democratic Origins II: The Minority Question in South Asia - Anupama Rao3. Democratic Origins III: Violence and/in the Making of Indian Democracy - Sunil Purushotham4. Democratic Origins IV: Comment - Ajay Skaria5. The State and/of the Media in Modi’s India - Siddharth Varadarajan6. Writing Counter-insurgency, Conflict and Democracy - Nandini Sundar and Dolly Kikon7. Democratic Trajectories I: Congressism, Anti-Congressism, and Composing the ‘People-as-a-Whole’ - Subir Sinha8. Democratic Trajectories II: Merit and Caste in Contemporary India - Ajantha Subramanian9. Democratic Trajectories III: Ritual Inclusivity in Turbulent Times - Kathinka Frøystad10. Democratic Trajectories IV: Comment - Manali Desai11. India’s Democracy: Contest for the Nation’s Core - Kavita Krishnan12. Feminism and the Politics of Gender - Raka Ray and Srila RoyConclusion: Indian Democracy and Its Prospects: 2019 and Beyond - Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Anand VaidyaAbout the Editors Notes on Contributors Notes Index