1st Edition
Indian Politics and Society since Independence Events, Processes and Ideology
Abbreviations Glossary List of Tables Political Map of India Introduction 1. Setting the scene 2. Shaping Indian politics: the language of Identity 3. Indian Democracy: liberalism in its reinvented form 4. Parliamentary Federalism in India: redefining the Westminster model 5. The Chaotic 1960s: a decade of experiments and turmoil 6. The Left Front and the 2006 Assembly Elections in West Bengal: Marxism reinvented 7. Coalition Politics in India: cultural synergy or political expediency Conclusion Annotated Bibliography
Biography
Bidyut Chakrabarty is Professor in Political Science at the University of Delhi, India, and is currently the Mahatma Gandhi(visiting) Chair for Global Non-Violence at the Gandhi Centre at James Madison University, USA.
"…in the last ten years or so I have not read a book which is comparable to Bidyut Chakrabarty’s in it richness of material, quality, rigour, scope, sweep, lucidity, and readability. I would even consider this script as a kind of trend-setter." - P. Radhakrishnan, Professor, Sociology, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India, and prominent social critic
"[T]he volume remains an appropriate and timely intervention that, with its thematically organised bibliography, will be an asset for all interested in the politics of modern India." - Soumen Mukherjee, University of Heidelberg, Germany; Contemporary South Asia, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 2010
