This volume presents a collection of articles on the politics and party system in India, starting with the Congress system, the other national parties and the regional parties. Parties have been discussed from the standpoint of the interplay of caste, class and communal and regional politics and their impact on the changing nature of Indian ...
This volume explores certain key issues in the lives of Muslim women in India. It is based on a comprehensive survey research and fieldwork, and analyses the contemporary state of education, employment opportunity, and marriage and other key indicators of development that map qualitative change in the lives of women.
This book explores the character of the political transformation and democratic transition in the Asian Muslim world. It asks whether democracy is appropriate and desirable as a political system for non-Western societies, and assesses the extent of actual democratization in each of the countries studied, namely, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran, ...
This volume provides a cross-disciplinary analysis by leading social scientists of contemporary India of the transformations unleashed by the introduction of egalitarian and liberal principles of government within the context of the colonial legacy, hierarchial social order, group-based identities and plural cultures. Among the transformations ...
Examining the processes of state formation and consolidation, and the erosion of the post-colonial state, this book highlights three themes: the constraints of modernization; the contradictory logic of modernization vis-a-vis assertive political identities; and the politics of the governed and the battle for equal status at the level of the state. ...
Situated at the interface of policy and political processes, this study explores the dynamics and strategies of the state with regard to Muslims and lower castes. It examines the underlying issues that influence state policy towards disadvantaged groups and assesses specific strategies and whether these need rethinking and reshaping to take India ...
This examination of the several considerations and factors that influence the schooling of Muslim girls is the first of its kind, based on first-hand information from interviews, documents and reports, and empirical studies. It argues that state policies and initiatives on education, regional location, social and economic compulsions, as well as ...
Setting the analysis in a broader trajectory of change in Indian society and politics, this book explores the growth of the oppositional politics of farmers. It also delineates the tactics of mobilization employed by leading political parties and organizations to accomplish this radical change.
Examining the processes of state formation and consolidation, and the erosion of the post-colonial state, this book highlights three themes: the constraints of modernization; the contradictory logic of modernization vis-a-vis assertive political identities; and the politics of the governed and the battle for equal status at the level of the state. ...
This study examines changes in agrarian structure and their impact on politics in western Uttar Pradesh. Emphasis is placed on exploring the social forces as well as the issues involved in political mobilization. The principal aim is to explain the emergence and consolidation of rich peasants and their strategy of mobilization. This volume is ...
This volume challenges the assumption that Muslims in India constitute a homogeneous community. Focusing specifically on gender issues, the contributors instead locate the Muslim womens community within the social, economic, and political developments that have taken place in the subcontinent, pre- and post-Independence, in order to examine how ...
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