Explaining Indian democracy : A fifty year perspective 1956-2006 Vol. I The realm of ideas : Inquiry and theory

Table of Contents;
Preface;
Acknowledgements;

I. Modes of Inquiry Introduction
1. Surveys in India: Field Experience in Madras State ;
2. Determinants and Varieties of Agrarian Mobilization;
3. Engaging Subjective Knowledge: How Amar Singh's Diary Narratives of and by the Self Explain Identity formation;
4. Review of Pradeep Chhibber, Democracy Without Associations: Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India;
5. The Imperialism of Categories: Situating knowledge in a Globalizing World;
6. Perestroika and Its Other;
7. Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend: Arguments for Pluralism and against Monopoly in Political Science;

II. Theorizing Politics and Society
Introduction;
8. Consensus and Conflict in Indian Politics;
9. Introduction in The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India;
10. Authority and Power in Bureaucratic and Patrimonial Administration: A Revisionist Interpretation of Weber on Bureaucracy;
11. Conclusion in In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State ;
12. The Media and Cultural Politics;
13. Occidentalism and Orientalism: Perspectives on Legal Pluralism;
14. Civil Society and the Realm of Freedom;
15. Living with Difference in India: Legal Pluralism and Legal Universalism in Historical Context;
Index.