Contents:
SUDIPTA KAVIRAJ Introduction;
I POLITICS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE;
LOUIS DUMONT Power and Territory;
RAINI KOTHARI Caste and Modern Politics;
ANDRÉ BÉTEILLE Caste and Political Group Formation in Tamilnad;
PARTHA CHATTERIEE The Nation and its Outcasts;
II HISTORICAL REFIGURATIONS OF POWER;
SATISH SABERWAL On the Diversity of Ruling Traditions;
SUDIPTA KAVIRAJ On the Construction of Colonial Power: Structure, Discourse, Hegemony;
NICHOLAS DIRKS The Study of State and Society in India;
III CASTE AND CLASS ;
LLOYD I. RUDOLPH Regime Types and Economic Performance;
SUSANNE HOEBER;
RUDOLPH;
MARC GALANTER Pursuing Equality: An Assessment of India's Policy of Compensatory Discrimination
for Disadvantaged Groups;
PAUL R. Brass The Politicization of the Peasantry in a North Indian State 200;
IV SOCIOLOGY OF IDENTITIES;
DIPANKAR GUPTA Ethnicity and Politics;
MYRON WEINER Minority Identities;
V SOCIOLOGY OF POLITICAL PARTIES;
JAMEs MANOR Karnataka: Caste, Class, Dominance and Politics in a Cohesive Society ;
BRUCE GRAHAM Jana Sangh and Social Interests;
VI SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION;
BRAN CHANDRA Communalism as False Consciousness;
GYANENDRA PANDEY Communalism as Construction;
HARJOT OBEROI Sikh Fundamentalism;
ASHIS NANDY A Critique of Modernist Secularism;
T.N. MADAN Secularism in its Place;
AKEEL BILGRAMI Two Concepts of Secularism;
VII SOCIOLOGY OF STATE CRISIS;
FRANCINE R. FRANKEL Decline of a Social Order;
ATUL KPHLI Crisis of Governability;
Index.