Edited by Ashutosh Kumar and Yatindra Singh Sisodia
How India Votes: A State-by-State Look
- Orient BlackSwan 2018
Contents: 1. Studying Elections and Electoral Politics in the Indian States: An Introduction/Ashutosh Kumar. I. National Perspective: 2. The Implications of the 2014 Elections: Is BJP the New Congress?/Rahul Verma and Sanjay Kumar. 3. The Religious Fault Line in the 2014 Election/Shreyas Sardesai and Pranav Gupta. 4. The Indian National Congress: Coping with Challenges of Deepening Democracy, Federalism and Neoliberal Capitalism/Rekha Saxena. 5. Party Types and Electoral Performance across States, 1980-2016/Suraj Jacob. II. Northern States: 6. Regional Divide on Communal Lines: Parliamentary Election 2014 in Jammu and Kashmir/Aijaz Ashraf Wani. 7. The 2014 Lok Sabha Elections in Punjab: Explaining the Success of Aam Aadmi Party/Ashutosh Kumar. 8. Electoral Support Base of BJP in Haryana: Continuity and Change/Kushal Pal. 9. Political Developments in Uttarakhand: BJP's Rise in the 2014 Lok Sabha lections/Annpurna Nautiyal. 10. Himachal Pradesh Lok Sabha Elections 2014: BJP Rides High on 'Modi Wave'/Ramesh K. Chauhan. 11. Shifting Interface of Development and Identity: Delineating the Trajectory of Electoral Politics in Uttar Pradesh/Sajjan Kumar. 12. Rajasthan: Tussle between Bipolirity and Single-party Dominance/Sanjay Lodha and Nidhi Jain. III. Central States/Bridge States: 13. Madhya Pradesh: An Analysis of BJP's Success in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections/Yatindra Singh Sisodia. 14. Chhattisgarh: A Repetition of BJP's Performance in 2014/Anupama Saxena. 15. Re-evaluating Maratha Politics in Maharashtra: 2014 Assembly Elections and After/Sarthak Bagchi. 16. Gujarat: Modi Wave Pushes Congress to the Brinks in 2014/Mahashweta Jani. IV. Eastern States: 17. Chronicle of Janata Parivar Foretold: Rashtriya Janata Dal and Janata Dal (United) in Bihar/Adnan Farooqui. 18. The 2014 Lok Sabha Electoral Outcome in West Bengal: Continuity and Change/Pratip Cattopadhyay. V. Southern States: 19. Karnataka: Emerging Patterns in National and State-level Elections/Sandeep Shastri ..