India's 2004 Elections

Grass-Roots and National Perspectives
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7619-3516-2
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 569 g

Building on their insightful work on India’s 1998 and 1999 parliamentary elections, distinguished scholars Ramashray Roy and Paul Wallace’s current book focuses on the landmark elections of 2004. Thematically divided into two sections, the book focuses on:

– the national, theoretical and comparative perspectives on participation of women in the electoral process, caste dynamics, religion and nationalism, as well as federalism and factionalism. – state-specific studies of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Meghalaya, Orissa and West Bengal. – tribal politics, at a time when the politicisation of ethnic identities is being increasingly felt in various parts of India.

Bringing together contributors from India and abroad, this volume adds to the body of work on electoral politics and social change in India, and will be of interest to students and teachers of political science, journalists, as well as the informed, general reader.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roy, Ramashray

Wallace, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction: India Shining Trumped - Paul Wallace
PART I: NATIONAL, THEORETICAL AND COMPARATIVE
The Text and Context of the 2004 Lok Sabha Elections in India - Ramashray Roy
Chaste like Sita, Fierce Like Durga - Sikata Banerjee
Indian Women in Politics
Contextualising Religious, Caste and Regional Dynamics in Electoral Politics - Pramod Kumar
Emerging Paradoxes
Of Hindus and their Nationalisms - Jyotirindra Dasgupta
Religion, Representation and Democracy
'Jumbo Cabinets', Factionalism, and the Impact of Federalism - Virginia Van Dyke
Comparing Coalition Governments in Punjab, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh
PART II: ANALYTICAL STATE STUDIES
Gujarat after Godhra - Ghanshyam Shah
Political Articulation and Policy Discourse in the 2004 Elections in Andhra Pradesh - Karli Srinivasulu
The New Alliance Made the Difference in Bihar - Sanjay Kumar
Politics of Separatism in Assam - Sandhya Goswami and Monoj Kumar Nath
Ethno-regional Identity and Political Mobilisation in Meghalaya - Rajesh Dev
Democratic Discourse in a Tribal State
Validating the Status Quo and Local Narratives in Orissa - Mohammed Alam
CPI(M) Dominance and "Other" Parties in West Bengal - Amiya K. Chaudhuri
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roy, Ramashray
Ramashray Roy is an eminent political philosopher and prolific writer whose work has opened up new vistas in the study of development and democracy in India. He has served as a Senior Fellow as well as the Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (Delhi), Director of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (New Delhi), Fellow of the Indian Council of Historical Research (New Delhi), National Fellow and a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (Shimla). He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad.

Professor Roy has published dozens of books including India’s 2004 Elections: Grass-roots and National Perspectives (2007), India’s 1999 Elections and 20th Century Politics (2003) and Dialogues on Development: The Individual, Society and State and Political Order (1986).

Wallace, Paul
Paul Wallace (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He has been a consultant on South Asia to a member of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the US Attorney General’s Office, defense lawyers, and other agencies in North America and has received five Smithsonian-funded awards for national election studies in India. In September 2003, Professor Wallace served as the expert witness on Sikh violence at the Air India trial in Vancouver, Canada.

His research in India includes a Senior Fulbright Research Award in 1972, and funding from the Ford Foundation, 1988–89, the American Institute of Indian Studies (1980–81), and various government and non-government groups in India. Professor Wallace is the author or editor of eight books and 40+ book chapters and articles. His last co-edited book is India’s 2009 Elections: Coalition Politics, Party Competition and Congress Continuity” published by SAGE Publications in 2011.