Politics in India

by Kaviraj, Sudipta

• ISBN13: 9780195631333
• ISBN10: 0195631331
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume brings together papers by eminent scholars analyzing the sociological bases of Indian politics. It focuses on the relationship modern politics has with changes in caste structure, religious communities, and other types of identity.

Table of Contents

SUDIPTA KAVIRAJ
Introduction	1	(36)
I POLITICS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE	37	(82)
LOUIS DUMONT
Power and Territory	42	(15)
RAJNI KOTHARI
Caste and Modern Politics	57	(14)
ANDRE BETEILLE
Caste and Political Group Formation in Tamilnad	71	(23)
PARTHA CHATTERJEE
The Nation and its Outcasts	94	(25)
II HISTORICAL REFIGURATIONS OF POWER	119	(52)
SATISH SABERWAL
On the Diversity of Ruling Traditions	124	(17)
SUDIPTA KAVIRAJ
On the Construction of Colonial Power: Structure, Discourse, Hegemony	141	(18)
NICHOLAS DIRKS
The Study of State and Society in India	159	(12)
III CASTE AND CLASS	171	(52)
LLOYD I. RUDOLPH
SUSANNE HOEBER
RUDOLPH
Regime Types and Economic Performance	177	(10)
MARC GALANTER
Pursuing Equality: An Assessment of India's Policy of Compensatory Discrimination for Disadvantaged Groups	187	(13)
PAUL R. BRASS
The Politicization of the Peasantry in a North Indian State	200	(23)
IV SOCIOLOGY OF IDENTITIES	223	(32)
DIPANKAR GUPTA
Ethnicity and Politics	228	(13)
MYRON WEINER
Minority Identities	241	(14)
V SOCIOLOGY OF POLITICAL PARTIES	255	(38)
JAMES MANOR
Karnataka: Caste, Class, Dominance and Politics in a Cohesive Society	262	(12)
BRUCE GRAHAM
Jana Sangh and Social Interests	274	(19)
VI SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION	293	(72)
BIPAN CHANDRA
Communalism as False Consciousness	299	(6)
GYANENDRA PANDEY
Communalism as Construction	305	(13)
HARJOT OBEROI
Sikh Fundamentalism	318	(11)
ASHIS NANDY
A Critique of Modernist Secularism	329	(13)
T. N. MADAN
Secularism in its Place	342	(7)
AKEEL BILGRAMI
Two Concepts of Secularism	349	(16)
VII SOCIOLOGY OF STATE CRISIS	365	(32)
FRANCINE R. FRANKEL
Decline of a Social Order	370	(13)
ATUL KOHLI
Crisis of Governability	383	(14)
Index	397