India votes : alliance politics and minority governments in the ninth and tenth general elections

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India votes : alliance politics and minority governments in the ninth and tenth general elections

edited by Harold A. Gould and Sumit Ganguly

Westview Press, 1993

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Examines the variety of factors which shaped India's historic ninth general elections of 1989 when the dynastic dominance of the Congress Party was successfully challenged. The book also looks at the implications of the elections for India as a developing democracy.

Table of Contents

  • Patterns of political mobilization in the parliamentary and assembly elections of 1989 and 1990, Harold A. Gould
  • local support bases and ninth general election in Bihar and Maharashtra, Harry Blair
  • the Janata Dal in the ninth Indian general election and its future prospects, Lewis P. Fickett
  • caste, class, and community in the ninth general election, Paul R. Brass
  • Indian electoral politics 1989-1990 - centre-state dynamics, Paul Wallace
  • the media and cultural politics, Lloyd I. Wallace
  • women's politics and land control in an Indian election - lasting influences of the freedom movement in North Bihar, Wendy Singer
  • the impact of foreign policy on the ninth general election, Sumit Ganguly.

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