Democracy in India : Themes in politics

Contents:
LIST OF TABLES;
LIST OF FIGURES;
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS;
INTRODUCTION (NIRAJA GOPAL JAYAL):
I INDIAN DEMOCRACY PREFIGURED ;
1. Democracy under the Raj: Elections and Separate Representation in British India (James Chiriyankandath);
2. The Rhetoric of Democracy and Development in Late Colonial India (David Washbrook); ; II DEMOCRACY AND THE STATE ;
3. The Crisis of the Moderate State and the Decline of Democracy (Rajni Kothari);
4. Political Change in a Democratic Developing Country (Atul Kohli); ; 5. Demand Polity and command Polity (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); ; 6. The State and Democracy in India or What happened to Welfare, Secularism, and Development (Niraja Gopal Jayal; ; III DEMOCRACY AND CIVIL SOCIETY ; 7. The Culture of representative Democracy (Sudipta Kaviraj); ; 8. Power and Knowledge in Development Discourse: New Social Movements and the State in India (Pramod Parajuli); ; 9. The Democratic Rite: Celebration and Participation in the Indian Elections (Walter Hauser and Wendy Singer); ; 10. Hunger and Public Action; (Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen); ; 11. The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation (Arend Lijphart); ; IV DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT ; 12. Economic Development and Political Democracy: Interaction and Economies and Politics in Independent India (Deepak Nayyar); ; 13. The Political Economy of Reform in India (Pranab Bardhan); V DEMOCRACY, LOCALITY, AND REGION ; 14. Ballot Box and Local Power: Elections in an Indian Village (Subrata K. Mitra); ; 15. Democracy and Decentralization in Karnataka (India) (Richard C. Crook and James Manor); ; VI THE FUTURE OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY ; 16. The Anti-caste Movement and the Discourse of Power (Gail Omvedt); ; 17. Hindu Nationalism and Democracy (Christophe Jaffrelot); ; ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY: NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.