{"title":"Introduction to Indian Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore books introducing India’s political system, institutions, political history, democratic traditions, and the foundations of public life.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"12757-transforming-india-social-and-political-dynamics-of-democracy","title":"Transforming India - Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Eminent Contributors\u003cbr\u003eEditor(s): Francine Franklin \/ Zoya Hasan \/ Rajeev Bhargava\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2002\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 443\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195658329\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, leading scholars take stock of India’s experience of democratic functioning for over fifty years and analyse the profound transformations brought about by the democratic forms of governance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe essays discuss electoral upsurges of historically marginalized groups, autonomous mobilization of lower castes and dalits, corruption in governments, tendencies towards regionalization, fragmentation of political parties, Hindu-Muslim tensions, and the increase in inter-state disparities on account of economic reforms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe roles of the electronic media, the police, and the judiciary have also been examined. 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They confirm that the legitimacy of democracy is wide-based and growing.\u003cbr\u003e-Biblio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book sheds valuable insights on the trials and tribulations of Indian democracy.\u003cbr\u003e-Indian Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt the book is a thought provoking collection and touches many hues of Indian democracy.\u003cbr\u003e-Deccan Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCONTRIBUTORS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Contextual Democracy: intersections of society, culture an politics in India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDemocratic Vision of a New Republic: India, 1950 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Strong State and the Fear of Disorder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDemocracy and Social Inequality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderstanding the Second Democratic Upsurge: trends of bahujan participation in electoral politics in the 1990s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRepresentation and Redistribution: the new lower caste politics of north India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNegotiating Differences: federal coalitions and national cohesion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEconomic Policy and the Development of Capitalism in India: the role of regional capitalists and political parties\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEconomic Policy and Its Political Management in the Current Conjuncture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDepicting the Nation: media politics in independent India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe India Police: expectations of a democratic polity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJudges and Indian Democracy: the lesser evil?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHindu Nationalism and Democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Transformation of Hindu Nationalism? 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It is the first comprehensive treatment of the Indian political system, examined from different vantage points and drawing together the contributions of various disciplines into a common framework.The book ends with a consideration of the future in terms of emerging issues and their policy perspectives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the highest compliment that can be paid to this long-awaited book isto say that it is by far the most sophisticated general study of Indian politics that has yet been written.     The Journal of Asian Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e.. The book is a welcome addition to the political literature of the post-independence era in our land. It unfolds with insight and acumen the vastness and confusion of the Indian political scene.    The EconomicTimes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe merits of his book are many and solid.  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It now occupies centre stage in our public discourse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Confessions of a Secular Fundamentalist, Mani Shankar Aiyar, parliamentarian, commentator and crusader for a secular credo, calls for an unambiguous and decisive restoration of secularism to the core of our nationhood. In doing so, he revisits every dimension of our secular ethos and exposes the various myths perpetuated by communal elements of all hues. Putting under the scanner contentious issues like conversions, uniform civil code and Article 370, he nails the falsehoods underlying terms like pseudo-secularism, appeasement and soft Hindutva. And he places the domestic debate over secularism in India in the wider external dimension by discussing the experiences of countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Israel and erstwhile Yugoslavia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdmitting to wearing his secularism on his sleeve, Aiyar reasons that only a determined and inflexible adherence to secularism, in principle and in practice, can counter religious bigotry and fundamentalism. 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The Argumentative Indian brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India, including its thriving democracy, in the light of its long argumentative tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat tradition has not only influenced the history of literary, cultural, political, scientific and mathematical developments in India, but also the intellectual pluralism underlying its religious diversity. This includes heterodoxies experiences, varying from the early flowering of Buddhism, Jainism and atheism to constructive encounters with religions coming from abroad, particularly Islam. 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Sen also discusses aspects of India’s rich intellectual heritage, including philosophies of governance outlined by Kautilya and Ashoka in he fourth and third centuries BCE to Akbar in the 1590s; the history and continuing relevance of India’s close relations with China in the first millennium; its old an well-organized calendars; the films of Satyajit Ray; and the debates between the visionary poet Rabindranath Tagore and Mohandas Gandhi about India’s past, present and future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe understanding and use of India’s rich argumentative tradition are critically important, Sen argues, for the success of India’s democracy, the defence of its secular politics, the removal of inequalities related to class, caste, gender and community, and the pursuit of sub-continental peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSen is a rare example of an intellectual who has had a major effect on politics, Among academics Sen’s reputation is almost unrivalled.\u003cbr\u003e-Jonathan Steele, Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe world’s poor and dispossessed could have no more articulate and insightful  a champion among economists than Amartya Sen. By showing that the quality of our lives should be measured not by our wealth, but by our freedom, his writings have revolutionized the theory and practice of development.\u003cbr\u003e-Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDIACRITICLA NOTATION FOR SANSKRIT WORDS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: VOICE AND HETERODOXY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Argumentative Indian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInequality, Instability and Voice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndia: Large and Small\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Diaspora and the World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO: CULTURA ND COMMUNICATION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTagore and His India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur Culture, Their Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndian Traditions and the Western Imagination\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChina and India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART THREE: POLITICS AND PROTEST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTryst with Destiny\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClass in India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWomen and Men\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndia and the Bomb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART FOUR: REASON AND IDENTITY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Reach of Reason\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSecularism and Its Discontents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndia through Its Calendars\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Indian Identity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNOTES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDEX OF NAMES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGENERAL INDEX\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Amartya Sen \/ Penguin \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40776360591529,"sku":"16475","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/16475_b25418c3-6a96-472a-b17d-c30a393ea43d.jpg?v=1625569167"},{"product_id":"17508-the-argumentative-indian-writings-on-indian-culture-history-and-identity","title":"The Argumentative Indian - Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Amartya Sen\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2005\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 409\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0141012110\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndia is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly differing convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. 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What constitutes India? And will it hold together?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday the strains on India are showing. Over-centralisation, communal conflict, caste rivalries, linguistic and ethnic assertions-have all taken a toll of the ideals on which modern India is premised.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book addresses itself to the problem of conceptualizing and understanding India. It concludes that what constitutes India is republicanism and if practice has subverted the ideal, it is perhaps time to devise another method of actualizing the vision. 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It incisively pieces together the gradual decay in public administration in post-British India. The growing subservience of the bureaucracy to the political system unravels step by step. A self-serving elite is formed that is preoccupied with its vested interests. The entire administration, its infrastructure and its development programmes become the terrain for serving the personal and political interests of the neta and babu. The voice of the common man in India goes unheard. The poor continue to remain in poverty. The humour and crispness of the narrative barely conceal this underlying  theme which is the central focus of the book – it is not a memoir, nor gossip chatter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTSR based his book on his rich repertoire of experience and a prodigious memory for detail. The book documents, through a personal narrative, forty years of politics and bureaucracy. 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He demonstrates how extremist religious ideologies and violent politics of forces on the right and the left have overshadowed the idea of a liberal, tolerant society that India's founding fathers dreamed of, where many views would compete for public attention, where the motto 'live and let live' would be the nation's guiding philosophy, and where India would be a liberal-democratic beacon for Emerging Nations of the developing world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstead, the reality today is that far too many Indians see pluralism as phony and tolerant secularism as irrelevant to an existence centred on narrow religious, regional or ethnic identities. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePointing out flaws in the Indian version of secularism, where there is no strict Separation of Church and state, Adhikari shows how governments have often buckled to please one vote Bank or the other, thus posing a threat to the collective vision of India. 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While the title, for us as Indians, may be provocative, the book's message is uncontestable. It is simply that, as a nation, India is certainly liberal and secular, but as people we are often intolerant of diversity of religion, ideology or culture among different segments of society... Highly recommended, this book should in fact be compulsory reading for aspiring politicians as well as in colleges and universities.”\u003cbr\u003e--- BIMAL JAIAN, AUTHOR AND FORMER GOVERNOR, RESERVE BANK OF INDIA \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a timely, topical and cogently written book on a critical and contested issue - the current state and the likely future of Indian secularism. Those with an interest in contemporary India will find this analysis illuminating, insightful and telling.”\u003cbr\u003e--- SUMIT GANGULY, RABINDRANATH TAGORE CHAIR IN INDIAN CULTURES AND CIVILIZATIONS, INDIANA UNIVERSITY, BLOOMINGTON \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gautam Adhikari spares no punches in a sharp attack on religious extremists of all kinds, and on organized religion itself, while insisting on the right of every citizen, including the extremist and the fundamentalist, to a free expression of views. 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