{"product_id":"state-politics-in-india","title":"State \u0026 Politics in India","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Partha Chatterjee\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 1999\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 576\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195647653\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis timely book brings together landmark essays which collectively present an overall view of Indian politics as it stands fifty years after Independence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt scrutinizes India's major political institutions, and analyses processes of domination and resistance that play a central role in Indian politics.  Some readings present a view of the development of the party system, the electoral system, the judiciary.  Others give a sense of the institutional 'crisis' since the late 1980s, and examine current possibilities of institutional change.  Some other essays aimed at understanding India's political dynamics examine the state as a site for contestation of power and look at the recent social movements which contend with the general structure of political institutions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis selection of writings will be invaluable for college and university students and also for journalists and the interested general readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays, comprehensive in its scope .. Is invaluable to any student of politics.                                                                - - The Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book uses some interesting intellectual styles which try to map politics through music, films and law . . The volume is essential reading for anyone studying the dynamics of politics in contemporary India.                                                               - - Seminar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat strikes me in this book is the effort to overcome as well as to fully utilize the chronic and usually debilitating tension between 'theorists' and 'empiricists'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFigures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: A Political History of Independent India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SYSTEM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Critique of the Passive Revolution\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE INSTITUTIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eParties and the Party System\u003cbr\u003eIndia Decides: Elections 1952-1995\u003cbr\u003eReconfiguration in Indian Politics: State assembly elections 1993-1995\u003cbr\u003eEvolving Trends in the Bureaucracy\u003cbr\u003eImpact of Centre-State Relations in Indian Politics:\u003cbr\u003eAn interpretative Reckoning 1947-1987\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE POLITICAL PROCESS: DOMINANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNational Power and Local Politics in India:\u003cbr\u003eA Twenty-year Perspective\u003cbr\u003eFrom Breakdown to Order: West Bengal\u003cbr\u003eCulture and Subaltern Consciousness: An Aspect of the MGT Phenomenon\u003cbr\u003eWhen Local Riots are Not Merely Local: Bringing the State Back in, Bijnor 1988-1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE POLITICAL PROCESS: RESISTANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRise of the Dalits and the Renewed Debate on Caste\u003cbr\u003eIndia’s Minorities: Who Are They? What Do they Want?\u003cbr\u003ePolitics of Subnationalism: Society versus State in Assam\u003cbr\u003eProtecting Women against Violence? Reviews of a Decade of Legislation, 1980-1989\u003cbr\u003eA Bibliographic Guide\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Partha Chatterjee \/ Oxford University Press \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153786564976,"sku":"2487","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/2631_5fce85a2-ae35-47c6-b936-95c0ad55f782.jpg?v=1793914193","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/state-politics-in-india","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}