Indian democracy : origins, trajectories, contestations

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Indian democracy : origins, trajectories, contestations

edited by Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Anand Vaidya

PlutoPress, 2019

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: pbk. ISBN 9780745338927

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More than 70 years after its founding, with Narendra Modi's authoritarian Hindu nationalists in government, is the dream of Indian democracy still alive and well? India's pluralism has always posed a formidable challenge to its democracy, with many believing that a clash of identities based on region, language, caste, religion, ethnicity and tribe would bring about its demise. With the meteoric rise to power of the Bharatiya Janata Party, its solidity is once again called into question: is Modi's Hindu majoritarianism an anti-democratic attempt to transform India into a monolithic Hindu nation from which minorities and dissidents are forcibly excluded? With examinations of the way that class and caste power shaped the making of India's postcolonial democracy, the role of feminism, the media, and the public sphere in sustaining and challenging democracy, this book interrogates the contradictions at the heart of the Indian democratic project, examining its origins, trajectories and contestations.

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Introduction: Trajectories and Crossroads: Indian Democracy at 70 - Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Anand Vaidya 1. Democratic Origins i. India's Constitution and the Missing Revolution - Sandpito Dasgupta ii. The Minority Question in South Asia - Anupama Rao iii. Violence and/in the Making of Indian Democracy - Sunil Puroshotham iv. Comments - Ajay Skaria 2. The State and / of the Media in Modi's India - Siddharth Varadarajan 3. Writing Counter-insurgency, Conflict, and Democracy in India - Nandini Sundar and Dolly Kikon in conversation 4. Democratic Trajectories i. Congressism, Anti-Congressism, and the "People-as-a-Whole" - Subir Sinha ii. Merit and Caste in Contemporary India - Ajantha Subramanian iii. Ritual Inclusivity in Turbulent Times - Kathinka Froystad iv. Comments - Manali Desai 5. India's Democracy: Contest for the Nation's Core - Kavita Krishnan 6. Feminism and the Politics of Gender in Indian Democracy - Raka Ray and Srila Roy in conversation Conclusion: Indian Democracy and its Prospects: 2019 and Beyond - Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Anand Vaidya
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: hbk. ISBN 9780745338934

Description

More than 70 years after its founding, with Narendra Modi's authoritarian Hindu nationalists in government, is the dream of Indian democracy still alive and well? India's pluralism has always posed a formidable challenge to its democracy, with many believing that a clash of identities based on region, language, caste, religion, ethnicity and tribe would bring about its demise. With the meteoric rise to power of the Bharatiya Janata Party, its solidity is once again called into question: is Modi's Hindu majoritarianism an anti-democratic attempt to transform India into a monolithic Hindu nation from which minorities and dissidents are forcibly excluded? With examinations of the way that class and caste power shaped the making of India's postcolonial democracy, the role of feminism, the media, and the public sphere in sustaining and challenging democracy, this book interrogates the contradictions at the heart of the Indian democratic project, examining its origins, trajectories and contestations.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Trajectories and Crossroads: Indian Democracy at 70 - Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Anand Vaidya 1. Democratic Origins I: India's Constitution and the Missing Revolution - Sandipto Dasgupta 2. Democratic Origins II: The Minority Question in South Asia - Anupama Rao 3. Democratic Origins III: Violence and/in the Making of Indian Democracy - Sunil Purushotham 4. Democratic Origins IV: Comment - Ajay Skaria 5. The State and/of the Media in Modi's India - Siddharth Varadarajan 6. Writing Counter-insurgency, Conflict and Democracy - Nandini Sundar and Dolly Kikon 7. Democratic Trajectories I: Congressism, Anti-Congressism, and Composing the 'People-as-a-Whole' - Subir Sinha 8. Democratic Trajectories II: Merit and Caste in Contemporary India - Ajantha Subramanian 9. Democratic Trajectories III: Ritual Inclusivity in Turbulent Times - Kathinka Froystad 10. Democratic Trajectories IV: Comment - Manali Desai 11. India's Democracy: Contest for the Nation's Core - Kavita Krishnan 12. Feminism and the Politics of Gender - Raka Ray and Srila Roy Conclusion: Indian Democracy and Its Prospects: 2019 and Beyond - Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Anand Vaidya About the Editors Notes on Contributors Notes Index

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