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almafu_9959695709202883
Format:
1 online resource (xx, 403 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
1-316-34094-5
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1-316-25700-2
Series Statement:
The new Cambridge history of India
Content:
The Politics of India since Independence provides a comprehensive study of the major political, cultural, and economic changes in India since gaining independence. Paul Brass focuses on the consequences of the centralising drives of the national leadership to create a strong, unified nation, and a dynamic economy, all of which have been put into jeopardy in recent years by increased inter-caste conflicts, the rise of militant Hindu nationalism, and the worst communal massacres since Independence. In the second edition of his book, the author takes account of recent events to ask whether the country can find the right leadership to restore a political and communal balance in state and society.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Half Title -- THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLES -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: CONTINUITIES AND DISCONTINUITIES BETWEEN PRE- AND POST-INDEPENDENCE INDIA -- THE CONSTITUTION AND THE COLONIAL LEGACY -- SOCIAL STRUCTURE: THE COMMUNAL AND CASTE BASES OF INDIAN POLITICS -- IDEAS DERIVING FROM THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT -- THE LEADING IDEAS OF THE NATIONALIST ELITE AT INDEPENDENCE -- INDIA'S POLITICAL CULTURE: RHETORIC VERSUS REALITY -- POLITICAL LEADERSHIP, MOBILIZATION AND STATECRAFT IN PRE- AND POST-INDEPENDENCE POLITICS -- INTRA-PROVINCIAL POLITICS AND CENTER-PROVINCIAL RELATIONS BEFORE AND AFTER INDEPENDENCE -- PART I: POLITICAL CHANGE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2: POLITICAL CHANGE, POLITICAL STRUCTURE, AND THE FUNCTIONING OF GOVERNMENT -- PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY IN INDIA -- The Nehru period -- The rise of Indira Gandhi -- Threats to Mrs. Gandhi's dominance and the imposition of the Emergency -- Threats to Mrs. Gandhi's dominance -- The Emergency -- The 1977 elections and return to normalcy -- The 1977 elections -- The return to normalcy -- PATTERN AND STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT -- The President -- Prime Minister and Cabinet -- The role and powers of Parliament -- The Judiciary -- Government in the states -- LOCAL GOVERNMENT -- ADMINISTRATION AND DEFENCE OF THE INDIAN STATE: THE BUREAUCRACY, THE POLICE, AND CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS -- The bureaucracy -- The police -- The military and civilian-military relations -- CENTER-STATE RELATIONS -- ADAPTATION, CHANGE, AND STRAINS IN INDIA'S FEDERAL PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM -- CHAPTER 3: PARTIES AND POLITICS -- PARTIES AND PARTY SYSTEMS -- The Indian National Congress -- Non-Congress parties -- Radical and revolutionary parties and movements -- Right-wing, agrarian, and militant nationalist parties.
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The rise and fall of the Janata party and the Janata Dal -- The rise of the BJP in the 1989 and 1991 elections -- Regional parties -- ELECTORAL POLITICS -- The electoral process -- Election campaigns -- Indian voting behavior -- Parties and elections -- Election results, 1951 to 1992 -- The vote for the Congress -- The vote for the non-Congress parties -- Regional parties and state party systems -- Elections and political mobilization -- INTEREST GROUPS AND INTERMEDIARIES -- Interest groups -- Intermediaries -- Factions -- Brokers -- MASS MOVEMENTS, VIOLENT AND NON-VIOLENT -- CHAPTER 4: STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS -- STATE POLITICS -- Roles of the state governor -- From Independence to 1967 -- From 1967 to 1980 -- After 1980 -- Conclusions -- The role of the legislative assemblies -- State party systems -- The universal presence of the Congress -- Regionalization of state party systems -- Competitive two-party systems: Congress versus the BJP -- Competitive multi-party systems: Congress, the Janata parties, and the BJP -- Competitive dualist systems: Congress vs. the CPM -- Competitive regionally specifice party systems -- The strength of national and regional parties and the conditions for their institutionalization -- DISTRICT AND LOCAL POLITICS -- District government and administration -- Community development -- Levels and arenas of district politics -- The factional bases of district politics -- National power and local politics -- PART II: PLURALISM AND NATIONAL INTEGRATION -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 5: LANGUAGE PROBLEMS -- THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE PROBLEM -- LINGUISTIC REORGANIZATION OF STATES -- PERSISTING LINGUISTIC MINORITIES IN THE STATES -- The status of the Urdu language -- Hindi and the mother tongues of North India -- The status of minority languages in the non-Hindi-speaking states.
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CHAPTER 6: CRISES OF NATIONAL UNITY: PUNJAB, THE NORTHEAST, AND KASHMIR -- FAILURES AND PROBLEMS IN STATES REORGANIZATION: THE PUNJAB AND THE NORTHEAST -- The Punjab Crisis and the unity of India -- The reorganization of Assam -- The Naga and Mizo insurrections -- Conflicts between migrants and non-migrants in Assam -- JAMMU & -- KASHMIR -- Regional aspects of Kashmir politics -- Center‒state alliances and politics in Jammu & -- Kashmir -- Explanations -- CONCLUSION -- CHAPTER 7: COMMUNAL AND CASTE CONFLICT: SECULARISM, HINDU NATIONALISM, AND THE INDIAN STATE -- THE PERSISTENCE OF HINDU‒MUSLIM COMMUNAL DIVISION -- Congress policy toward Muslims -- Muslim grievances in north India -- The status of the Muslim Personal Law -- The question of the status of the Aligarh Muslim University -- Muslims in the political parties and in government service -- Contemporary Muslim politics and political organization -- Muslim political parties, interest associations and leadership -- Other parties, associations, and leaders -- Muslim voting behavior -- General pattern of Muslim voting behavior since Independence -- Hindu-Muslim communal violence -- Hindu‒Muslim polarization: The Babari Masjid/Ram Janmabhumi (Ram's birthplace) dispute -- On the question of Hindu consciousness and Hindu-Muslim antagonisms -- CASTE CONFLICT AND PREFERENTIA L POLICIES -- Caste and caste conflict in post-Independence politics -- The Nehru period -- The post-Nehru period -- Reservations and the political roles of disadvantaged and backward castes and classes -- Central government policies -- State government policies and problems -- The south -- The north -- Maharashtra -- The problem of Gujarat -- Conflict and consensus in reservations policies -- CONCLUSIONS -- PART III: POLITICAL ECONOMY -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 8: POLITICS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND SOCIAL CHANGE.
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POLITICS AND POLICIES: MAJOR ISSUES OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE -- Public sector and private sector -- Industry and agriculture -- Agrarian reform -- Agricultural development policies -- Mobilization of resources and center‒state relations -- Assessing the growth performance of the Indian economy -- The persistence of regional imbalances -- THE MOVE TOWARD LIBERALIZATION OF THE INDIAN ECONOMY AND THE DISMANTLING OF NEHRUVIAN STATE-DIRECTED PLANNING -- THE PERSISTING PROBLEMS OF POVERTY, HUNGER, AND MALNUTRITION -- The pervasiveness of poverty -- The incidence of poverty in India and its measurement -- Trends and fluctuations in the incidence of poverty -- Poverty and agricultural performance -- Poverty programs: origin and types -- Poverty programs: performance and implementation -- DOMINANT CLASSES, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE INDIAN STATE -- CHAPTER 9: POLITICAL ASPECTS OF AGRICULTURAL CHANGE -- AGRARIAN ISSUES IN INDIAN POLITICS -- The new strategy for agriculture -- Policies toward the agricultural sector -- Land reforms and speciul programs for disadvantaged sectors -- Price, procurement, and distribution policies -- The intensive area approach -- Technology transfer -- THE EXTENT AND LIMITS OF THE GREEN REVOLUTION -- THE ABSENCE OF A REVOLUTIONARY TRADITION OR POTENTIAL IN THE INDIAN COUNTRYSIDE -- Tebhaga -- Telangana -- Naxalbari -- Srikakulam -- The Andhra movement, 1969‒1971 -- Summary -- Post-Green Revolution incidents -- Conclusion -- CASTE AND CLASS IN THE INDIAN COUNTRYSIDE -- CHAPTER 10: CONCLUSION: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS -- THE PROBLEM OF THE PERSISTENCE OF THE PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM -- THE PROBLEM OF ESTABLISHING A STABLE STRUCTURE OF NATIONAL POWER: PARTIES, POLITICS, AND ELECTIONS -- THE PROBLEM OF MAINTAINING THE UNITY OF THE COUNTRY -- THE PROBLEMS OF ORDER, DISORDER, AND VIOLENCE.
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INDUSTRIALIZATION IN A PEASANT SOCIETY -- Development policy changes -- The politicization of the peasantry -- The contradictory interests of the urban middle classes and the urban and rural poor -- Centralized economic development and center-state relations -- The Indian state and the armies of the discontented -- PROSPECTS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDIAN PUBLIC DOCUMENTS -- BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND DISSERTATIONS -- NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS -- UNPUBLISHED PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS -- INDEX.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-45970-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-45362-3
Language:
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