Contents
1. Introduction : Contextual Democracy : Intersections of Society, Culture and Politics in India/Francine R. Frankel
2. Democratic Vision of a New Republic : India, 1950/Rajeev Bhargava
3. The Strong State and the Fear of Disorder/Paul R. Brass
4. Democracy and Social Inequality/Sudipta Kaviraj
5. Understanding the Second Democratic Upsurge : Trends of Bahujan Participation In Electoral Politics in the 1990s/Yogendra Yadav
6. Representation and Redistribution : The New Lower Caste Politics of North India/Zoya Hasan
7. Negotiating Differences : Federal Coalitions and National Cohesion/Balveer Arora
8. Economic Policy and the Development of Capitalism in India : The Role of Regional Capitalists and Political Parties/Sanjaya Baru
9. Economic Policy and Its Political Management in the Current Conjuncture/Prabhat Patnaik
10. Depicting the Nation : Media Politics in Independent India/Victoria L. Farmer
11. The India Police : Expectations of a Democratic Polity/R.K. Raghavan
12. Judges and Indian Democracy : The Lesser Evil?/Rajeev Dhavan
13. Hindu Nationalism and Democracy/Christophe Jaffrelot
14. The Transformation of Hindu Nationalism? Towards a reappraisal/Amrita Basu
15. India in Search... of a New Regime?/Douglas V. Verney
List of Contributors
1. Balveer Arora is Professor of Government and Politics at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Honorary Director, ICSSR, Northern Regional Centre, New Delhi. Earlier, he has been a visiting fellow at the National Political Science Foundation, Paris and the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, USA. He has co-edited Multiple Identities in a Single State : Indian Federalism in Comparative Perspective (1995) and Federalism in India: Origins and Development (1992).
2. Sanjaya Baru is Editor, The Financial Express and formerly professor at the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations, New Delhi. He has been an associate professor in economics at the University of Hyderabad and also a visiting fellow at the University of East Anglia (UK). He is the author of The Political Economy of Indian Sugar (1990) and the Mid-Year Review of the Indian Economy (1998). He is also a newspaper columnist and a television commentator.
3. Amrita Basu is Professor of Political Science and Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA. She has been a visiting scholar at the South Asian Institute, Columbia University, USA. She is the author of Two Faces of Protest : Contrasting Modes of Women's Activism in India (1992) and has co-edited Appropriating Gender : Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia (1998).
4. Rajeev Bhargava is Professor of Political Theory at the Delhi University. Earlier he has been a senior fellow in Ethics at Harvard University, Cambridge. He is the author of Individualism in Social Science (1992) and a contributor in and editor of Secularism and Its Critics (1998). Recently he has co-edited and contributed in Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Democracy (1999). Besides being a contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (1998), he has written numerous articles for various well-known journals and edited volumes.
5. Paul R. Brass is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. His most recent books are Theft of An Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence (1997); Riots and Pogroms (1996); and The Politics of India since Independence, 2nd ed. (1994). His other books include Ethnicity and Nationalism : Theory and Comparison (1991); Caste, Faction and Party in Indian Politics, 2 vols. (1983 and 1985); and Language, Religion and Politics in North India (1974). He is currently working on a book on Hindu-Muslim communalism and collective violence in India.
6. Rajeev Dhavan was educated at Allahabad, Cambridge and London Universities. A former academic, he taught at Queen's University (Belfast, Ireland) and at the University of West London, with visiting and other assignments at the Universities of London, Austin, Madison and Delhi. He is an honorary professor of the Indian Law Institute and Director of Public Interest Legal Support and Research Centre (PILSARC). Author of many books and articles on constitutional law, policy and public affairs and called to the Bar in India and England, he is now a Senior Counsel practicing in the Supreme Court of India.
7. Victoria L. Farmer is formerly Assistant Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania and South Asia Program Associate, The Asia Society. She has taught comparative politics, American foreign policy and international relations at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University. The author of numerous articles, she is currently completing her Ph.D. dissertation in political science at Penn, entitled "Televising the Nation : Television, Politics and Social Change in India."
8. Francine R. Frankel is Professor of Political Science and Director, Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, and a founding member of the University of Pennsylvania Institute for the Advanced Study of India, New Delhi. She is the author of India's Green Revolution : Economic Gains and Political Costs (1971); and India's Political Economy 1947-77: The Gradual Revolution (1978). Among other writings, she is a contributor and co-editor of Dominance and State Power : Decline of a Social Order, 2 vols. (1989 and 1990) and contributor and co-editor of Bridging the Non-Proliferation Divide : The United States and India (1995). She is currently at work on a comparative analysis of the making of foreign policy in the United States and India titled Different Worlds.
9. Zoya Hasan is Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. She has been a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania, USA. She is the author of Quest for Power : Oppositional Movement and Post-Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh (1998). She has also edited Forging Identities : Gender, Communities and the State (1994), and has contributed numerous articles to reputed journals and edited volumes.
10. Christophe Jaffrelot is Director of the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, France. Chief editor of Critique Internationale, he is also the author of The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics, 1925 to 1990s (1991) and has co-edited The BJP and the Compulsions of Politics in India (1998).
11. Sudipta Kaviraj teaches in the Department of Political Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. He has earlier taught at the University of Burdwan and Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is the author of The Unhappy Consciousness : Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation of Nationalist Discourse in India (1995) and has edited Politics in India (1997) and co-edited Perspectives on Capitalism (1989). Besides these, he has contributed several articles on political theory, Indian politics, and Bengali literature in well-known journals.
12. Prabhat Patnaik is Professor of Economics at the Centre of Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is the author of Economics and Egalitarianism (1991), Accumulation and Stability under Capitalism (1997), Whatever Happened to Imperialism and Other Essays (1995) and also has edited Macroeconomics (1995) and Lenin and Imperialism (1986).
13. R.K. Raghvan (IPS) is formerly Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Government of India. He was also Vice-President of the Indian Society of Victimology and Asia Editor for Police Practice and Research, published by the International Police Executive Symposium, USA. His publications include Policing a Democracy : A Comparative Study of India and the US (1999) and Indian Police : Problems, Planning and Perspectives (1998), besides several articles for periodicals and journals.
14. Douglas V. Verney is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at York University, Toronto and Adjunct Professor, South Asia Regional Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of five books, among them British Government and Politics: Life Without a Declaration of Independence (1976) and Three Civilizations, Two Cultures, One State : Canada's Political Traditions (1986). He has co-edited Multiple Identities in a Single State : Indian Federalism in Comparative Perspective (1995). In recent years he has published numerous articles on comparative parliamentary and federal systems in American, British, Canadian and Indian journals and currently working on a book titled Choosing a Regime: Eight Major Models.
15. Yogendra Yadav is Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and Director, Institute of Comparative Democracy (a research programme of the CSDS). Besides contributing several research papers to reputed academic journals, he is on the editorial board of Samayik Varta (a monthly political journal in Hindi). He is also well known as an election analyst, both on television and in print.