Parties and Party Politics in India,9780195655964

Parties and Party Politics in India

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ISBN13: 9780195655964
ISBN10: 0195655966
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-03-28
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Presenting a collection of articles on the politics and party system in India, this book examines the Congress system, the national parties, as well as the regional parties. Discussed in terms of their connection with caste, class, and communal and region

Table of Contents

List of Tables
xii
List of Contributors
xv
Introduction: Conflict Pluralism and the Competitive Party System in India 1(36)
Zoya Hasan
PART I: THE DOMINANCE AND DECLINE OF THE CONGRESS 37(114)
The Congress `System' in India
39(17)
Rajni Kothari
Social Cleavages, Elections, and the Indian Party System
56(20)
Pradeep K. Chhibber
John R. Petrocik
Mrs Gandhi's Pyramid: The New Congress
76(31)
Stanley A. Kochanek
The United Colours of Congress: Social Profile of Congress Voters, 1996 and 1998
107(44)
Anthony Heath
Yogendra Yadav
PART II: THE RISE AND GROWTH OF HINDU NATIONALIST POLITICS 151(136)
The Leadership and Organization of the Jana Sangh, 1951 to 1967
153(37)
B. D. Graham
A Specific Party-building Strategy: The Jana Sangha and The RSS Network
190(42)
Christophe Jaffrelot
Anatomy of BJP's Rise to Power: Social, Regional, and Political Expansion in 1990s
232(25)
Oliver Heath
The Rebirth of the Shiv Sena: The Symbiosis of Discursive and Organizational Power
257(30)
Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
Uday Singh Mehta
Usha Thakkar
PART III: RADICAL POLITICS AND LEFT PARTIES 287(64)
Communist Politics in Search of Hegemony
289(28)
Javeed Alam
Parliamentary Communism as a Historical Phenomenon: The CPI(M) in West Bengal
317(34)
Amrita Basu
PART IV: SOCIAL DIVERSITY AND PARTY POLITICS 351(78)
The Janata Phase: Reorganization and Redirection in Indian Politics
353(17)
Jyotirindra Das Gupta
Representation and Redistribution: The New Lower Caste Politics of North India
370(27)
Zoya Hasan
Bringing Society Back In: Ethnicity, Populism, and Pluralism in South India
397(32)
Narendra Subramanian
PART V: POLITICAL COMPETITION AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE PARTY SYSTEM 429(104)
Parties and the Party System
431(44)
James Manor
The Fragmentation of the Indian Party System, 1952-1999
475(29)
E. Sridharan
The Political Parties and the Party System: The Emergence of New Coalitions
504(29)
Balveer Arora
Annotated Bibliography 533(14)
Index 547

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