At Home with Democracy : A Theory of Indian Politics 1st Edition D.L. Sheth (Auth.)

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9811064113
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9811064111
• Author:  D.L. Sheth (Author), Peter Ronald deSouza (Editor)

This book presents numerous discussions of specific aspects of democratic politics, showing how ‘democracy’ can be projected as a model of deliberate imperfection – a model that tolerates various loose ends in the system – and how democracy recognizes a multiplicity of possible courses open to the system at any point in time. Against this backdrop, the book carefully analyzes the lifetime work of D.L. Sheth, which, seen as a whole, offers us with a theory of Indian politics.

The selection of fifteen essays has been clustered into five sections that signify the major domains of democratic politics: State, Nation, Democracy; Parapolitics of Democracy; Social Power and Democracy; Representation in Liberal Democracy; and Emerging Challenges of Democracy. These essays give a sense of the transformations and struggles that are underway in India, brought about by the dynamics of democratic politics. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on one aspect, providing a unique analysis of the deepening of democracy in India.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction: A Political Theory of Indian Democracy

1. State, Nation, Democracy

2. Historicizing India’s Nationhood: History as Contemporary Politics

3. State-Nation Building: The Making of Liberal Democracy

4. Crisis of Political Authority

2. Parapolitics of Democracy

5. Civil Society and Non-party Political Formations

6. Transformative Politics of Grass-Roots Movements

7. Law and the Outcasts of Development

3. Social Power and Democracy

8. Secularization of Caste and the Making of a New Middle Class

9. The Dalit Question in Four Frames

10. The Great Language Debate: Politics of Metropolitan Versus Vernacular India

4. Representation in Liberal Democracy

11. Interests and Identities: The Changing Politics of Representation

12. Minority Politics: The Shifting Terms of Policy Discourse

13. Growth of Communal Polarization in Gujarat and the Making of a Hindutva Laboratory

5. Emerging Challenges of Democracy

14. Revisiting the Reservations Policy

15. Entering the Twenty-First Century: Changes in National Politics and Discourse

16. Democratizing Global Governance: A Minimalist Perspective

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