Roy / Unknown Passionate politics

Democracy, development and India’s 2019 general election
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5775-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

In May 2019, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the world’s largest election. This book brings together a stellar team of economists, political scientists, sociologists, historians and geographers to explain why Indians voted the way they did.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Roy, Indrajit

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Passionate politics in India today – Indrajit Roy

Part I: Fear, love and fake news
1 Ordinary conspiracy theories and everyday communalism: Hindutva on the Indian cyberspace – Amogh Dhar Sharma
2 People-led campaigns in the 2019 general election: A case study of #Academics4NaMo – Swadesh Singh

Part II: The emotive politics of Hindu nationalism
3 Neoliberalism and cultural majoritarianism in India – Ajay Gudavarthy
4 The BJP and the war on history – Shalini Sharma
5 The passionate politics of the Savarna poor – Indrajit Roy
6 Seeking humanist Hinduism: Education and new Gurukul coaching models of Hindutva
– Suryakant Waghmore

Part III: Love, hate and Kashmir
7 The historical roots of conflict over/in Kashmir – Sarah Ansari
8 This side of paradise: The rise, fall and decimation of regional politics in Kashmir – Shaswati Das
9 The fear of Indian settler colonialism and the battle for Kashmir’s soul – Ather Zia

Part IV: Women, gender and love
10 Love taboos: Hindus, Muslims and moral panics – Charu Gupta
11 Why is romance political? – Sneha Krishnan

Part V: What young Indians want
12 In pursuit of Parivartan: Youth agency and the 2019 general election in Sikkim – Mabel Denzin Gergan and Charisma K. Lepcha
13 What do young people want from elections? – Sneha Krishnan

Part VI: The economics of India’s passionate politics
14 Social oppression and exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in contemporary India – Jens Lerche and
Alpa Shah
15 Two large shocks and a long-term problem: The economic performance of the Modi government,
2009–14 – Kunal Sen
16 Agrarian crisis, farmers’ protests and women’s assertion – Nitya Rao

Part VII: India tomorrow
17 The Modi government’s authoritarian project in India – James Manor
18 The 2019 elections and their implications for Muslim politics – Mujibur Rehman
19 Cementing emotions: The new reasoning of majoritarian politics – Gurpreet Mahajan
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Indrajit Roy is a Senior Lecturer in Global Development Politics at the University of York