The Algebra of Warfare-Welfare A Long View of India's 2014 Election

by Ahmad, Irfan; Kanungo, Pralay

• ISBN13: 9780199489626
• ISBN10: 0199489629
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-06-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Irfan Ahmad, Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany,Pralay Kanungo, ICCR Chair in Contemporary India Studies & Fellow, IIAS, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

Irfan Ahmad is Senior Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen, Germany. His most recent publication is Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (University of North Carolina Press, 2017 and Oxford University Press, 2018). Before working as Associate Professor of Political Anthropology at ACU, Melbourne, he taught politics and anthropology at Monash University, (2009- 2013). He was the founding founding co-editor of Journal of Religious and Political Practice (2015- 2017). He has held visiting positions, inter alia, at Brown University, the USA; Kanungo, Pralay is Professor of Politics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; ICCR Chair of Contemporary India Studies at Leiden University and Fellow at International Institute for Asian Studies, The Netherlands. He is Honorary Professor at Australian Catholic University, Melbourne and Guest Professor at Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. He was a

Visiting Professor at Maison des Sciences De L'Homme, Paris. Kanungo is the author of RSS's Tryst with Politics: From Hedgewar to Sudarshan (2002) and co-editor of The Politics of Ethnicity in India, Nepal and China (Primus, 2014). He was also the Principal Indian Investigator of Indian-European Social Sciences Research Networking Project focused on election studies.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Preface
Acknowledgments
Democracy and the Algebra of Warfare-Welfare
Irfan Ahmad
1. Democracy as Rumor: Media, Religion, and the 2014 Indian Elections
Irfan Ahmad
2. Modi and the Spectre of Terrorism: Crafting the Hindutva Icon
Manisha Sethi
3. Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Politics: The Baba Ramdev-BJP Partnership in the 2014 Elections
Pralay Kanungo
4. Gujarat Model and the Right-Wing Shift in 2014
Zoya Hasan
5. Communal Violence, Electoral Polarization, and Muslim Representation: Muzaffarnagar 2013-2014
Hilal Ahmed
6. Does Space Matter in Electoral Democracy? Analyzing the Mother Ganges' Call to the BJP's Prime Ministerial Candidate
Bikramaditya K. Choudhary
7. Caste and Cultural Icons: BJP's Politics of Appropriation in Tamil Nadu
R. Thirunavukkarasu
8. Hindutva's Reach Out to Muslims in 2014 Elections: A Historical Analysis
Mohammad Reyaz
9. Media, Corporates, and Democracy: Lessons from the 2014 General Elections
Sudhir Pattnaik
10. On The Ground: The Unfolding of the 2014 General Election Campaign
Patrick French
11. Unity in Diversity: Democracy and Manifestos in the 2014 Indian Elections
Irfan Ahmad
12. On Studying Elections and Democracy: A Conversation with T. K. Oommen
R. Thirunavukkarasu
Afterword by Pralay Kanungo
Index
Notes on Editors and Contributors