Parties and party politics in India /
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| Imprint: | New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002. |
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| Description: | xvi, 566 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Themes in politics series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4827820 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Conflict Pluralism and the Competitive Party System in India / Zoya Hasan
- Pt. I. The Dominance and Decline of the Congress
- 1. The Congress 'System' in India / Rajni Kothari
- 2. Social Cleavages, Elections, and the Indian Party System / Pradeep K. Chhibber and John R. Petrocik
- 3. Mrs. Gandhi's Pyramid: The New Congress / Stanley A. Kochanek
- 4. The United Colours of Congress: Social Profile of Congress Voters, 1996 and 1998 / Anthony Heath and Yogendra Yadav
- Pt. II. The Rise and Growth of Hindu Nationalist Politics
- 5. The Leadership and Organization of the Jana Sangh, 1951 to 1967 / B. D. Graham
- 6. A Specific Party-building Strategy: The Jana Sangha and The RSS Network / Christophe Jaffrelot
- 7. Anatomy of BJP's Rise to Power: Social, Regional, and Political Expansion in 1990s / Oliver Heath
- 8. The Rebirth of the Shiv Sena: The Symbiosis of Discursive and Organizational Power / Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Uday Singh Mehta and Usha Thakkar
- Pt. III. Radical Politics and Left Parties
- 9. Communist Politics in Search of Hegemony / Javeed Alam
- 10. Parliamentary Communism as a Historical Phenomenon: The CPI(M) in West Bengal / Amrita Basu
- Pt. IV. Social Diversity and Party Politics
- 11. The Janata Phase: Reorganization and Redirection in Indian Politics / Jyotirindra Das Gupta
- 12. Representation and Redistribution: The New Lower Caste Politics of North India / Zoya Hasan
- 13. Bringing Society Back In: Ethnicity, Populism, and Pluralism in South India / Narendra Subramanian
- Pt. V. Political Competition and Transformation of the Party System
- 14. Parties and the Party System / James Manor
- 15. The Fragmentation of the Indian Party System, 1952-1999 / E. Sridharan
- 16. The Political Parties and the Party System: The Emergence of New Coalitions / Balveer Arora.