The study of Indian politics has witnessed a dramatic revival worldwide in the last few decades. There have been significant developments in national politics since 2014 with the advent of the single-party majority government of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the first such majority since 1984. Moreover, the results of the 17th Lok Sabha (Lower House) election in India in 2019 have had major implications for the party system in India. In the light of these developments, The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the state of contemporary Indian politics. To that end, it examines the evolution of core institutions, processes, policies, and associated issues that are being debated in India's politics. It also provides historical contexts, discusses the state of the extant literature in each issue area, and suggests avenues for future research. The contributors to this volume are all noted scholars and researchers in their respective fields of specialization located both in India and around the world. The major topics covered include the Constitution, citizenship, the houses of Parliament, the Cabinet, the judiciary, federalism and local governments, elections, parties and coalitions, secularism and minorities, caste, gender and migration, political violence, political finance, political economy, and foreign and defence policies. In effect, The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics offers scholars, analysts, and students a sweeping overview of the current landscape of Indian politics, with particular attention to issues that have emerged over the past decade.
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The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics provides the latest and most comprehensive overview of the state of contemporary Indian politics and examines the evolution of its core institutions, processes, policies, and associated issues over the past decade.
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Sumit Ganguly and E. Sridharan: Editors' Introduction and Acknowledgements
Section I: Core Institutions
1: Niraja Gopal Jayal: Rights and Citizenship
2: M. R. Madhavan: Lok Sabha
3: Sandeep Shastri: The Rajya Sabha: A 'Federal Chamber' Or A Mere Upper House in the Indian Parliament?
4: Ajay K. Mehra: The Indian Cabinet
5: Ronojoy Sen: The Supreme Court
Section II: Federalism and Local Politics
6: Rekha Saxena: The Changing Nature of Federalism in India
7: Ashutosh Kumar: Political Leadership in India
8: George Mathew: Politics in the Third Tier: Municipalities and Panchayats
Section III: Elections
9: Banasmita Bora: The Election Commission of India and Its Evolution
10: Sanjay Kumar: Elections in India: A Journey over the Last Seven Decades
11: Rahul Verma: Media Exposure and Vote Choice in Indian Elections: 1996-2019
Section IV: The Major Parties
12: Christophe Jaffrelot: BJP's Ideology, Structures, Sociology, and Strategies
13: Zoya Hasan: Congress Party in Decline
14: Adam Ziegfeld: Regional Parties
Section V: Parties and Coalitions
15: K. K. Kailash: Political Parties: Centralised Electoral Machines
16: Rekha Diwakar: The Party System
17: E. Sridharan: Coalition Politics in India
Section VI: Caste, Gender, Migration
18: Suhas Palshikar: Caste and Politics: Limits of Democratization
19: Carole Spary: Women in Indian Politics
20: Ashwani Kumar and Shashwat Dhar: The Politics of Interstate Migration in India
Section VII: Money and Politics
21: Milan Vaishnav: Political Finance in India
22: Kanta Murali: State-Business Relations in India
Section VIII: Secularism and Minorities
23: Rajeev Bhargava: Indian Secularism at Crossroads: An Interpretation
24: Ashutosh Varshney: Communalism
25: Adnan Farooqui: Muslim Representation
Section IX: Political Economy
26: Surupa Gupta: The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Policy in India
27: John Echeverri-Gent: The Evolution of India's Economic Regulation: From Dirigisme to the New Regulatory State
28: Diego Maiorano: The Politics of Public Service Delivery in India
Section X: Political Violence
29: Paul Staniland: Insurgencies and Political Violence in India
30: Arvind Verma: Coercive Instruments of the State
Section XI: Foreign Policy and Security
31: Sumit Ganguly: The Evolution of India's Foreign Policy
32: Arzan Tarapore: Indian Defence Policy
33: Happymon Jacob: Drivers of India's South Asia Policy
34: Anit Mukherjee: India's Civil-Military Relations
35: Gaurav Kampani: The New Normal: India's Quest for the 'Credible' in Nuclear Deterrence
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Sumit Ganguly is a Senior Fellow and directs the Huntington Program on Strengthening US-India Relations at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is Distinguished Professor of Political Science Emeritus and the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations Emeritus at Indiana University, Bloomington.A specialist on the contemporary politics of South Asia, he is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 20 books on the
region.Professor Ganguly is member of the Council on Foreign Relations (New York) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves on the editorial boards of Asian Security, Current History,
Journal of Democracy, Foreign Policy Analysis, The Nonproliferation Review, Pacific Affairs, International Security, and Small Wars & Insurgencies.His most recent book (edited with Eswaran Sridharan) is The Oxford Handbook of Indian Politics. Eswaran Sridharan is the Academic Director and Chief Executive, University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI), Delhi. He is a political scientist whose published work includes that
on political parties, party system change, coalition politics, political finance, the political economy of liberalization, the Indian middle classes, and international relations theory and India as an emerging power. He has held visiting
appointments at the London School of Economics, the Institute of Developing Economies (Tokyo), University of California, Berkeley, and the Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of ten books, with four forthcoming titles, and has published 96 academic articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the refereed pan-social science India-dedicated journal, India Review, published by Taylor & Francis, UK.
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Covers key political institutions, major political parties, and processes such as elections and coalitions in India
Elaborates on critical identitarian issues such as secularism and minorities, caste, gender, and inter-state migration
Examines issues related to political economy (including political finance), foreign policy, defence, and internal security issues
Brings together a diverse mix of contributors and themes pertaining to the study of Indian politics
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ISBN
9780198894261
Publisert
2024
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Oxford University Press
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2599 gr
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246 mm
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171 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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672