1st Edition
Companion to Indian Democracy Resilience, Fragility, Ambivalence
Introduction
Peter Ronald deSouza, Mohd Sanjeer Alam and Hilal Ahmed
1. Democracy, Dalits and Struggle for Common Land in Punjab
Jatinder Singh
2. Agrarian Transformation, Emergence of New Sociality and Communal Violence in Rural Western Uttar Pradesh.
Satendra Kumar
3. Electoral campaign as a performative plebiscite: Mapping the changing nature of political communication in India
Radhika Kumar
4. The Role of Anti-Nuclear Movements in Deepening the Meaning and Practices of Democracy.
Deepa Mariam Varughese
5. People, Protected Areas and Political Parties: A Study of Two Protest Movements in Odisha
Sthitapragyan Ray and Neha Ojha
6. Democratisation of Communities through Rural Local Governance
G. Palanithurai
7. Regional Movements in Democracy: The Case of Telangana
Gaurav J. Pathania
8. From Land Reform to Guaranteeing Title to Land (Secure Property Rights) in India: Implications for Democracy
Pradeep Nayak
9. From Jan Sunwai to Social Audit: Trust, Contention, and ‘Workable Democracy
Gitika De
10. Democracy (practice) in Question? Subaltern Citizen’s-Voice, Impaired Governance and Development Paradigm
Satyajeet Nanda
11. Election Campaign in Mizoram
Ayangbam Shyamkishor
12. Making Sense of Democracy: Musahars of Eastern Uttar Pradesh
Shilp Shikha Singh
13. Political Mobilisation of Muslims in Kerala: Towards a Communitarian Becoming of Democracy
KM Thahir Jamal
14. Conceiving Scientific Expertise Democratically: A Study of Western Ghats Ecological Controversy
Nitin Jacob Thomas
15. Free Speech, Democracy and the “Hidden Persuaders”: Segregation in the Public Sphere
Sukumar Muralidharan
16. Regulatory Reforms in Electricity Sector: Systemic Change or Sabotage?
Kalpana Dixit
17. In Pursuit of Personal Data: A Survey on State’s Surveillance and Democracy in India
P. Arun
18. Contemporary Moment in Indian Democracy
Hilal Ahmed
Biography
Peter Ronald deSouza, formerly Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, is D.D. Kosambi Visiting Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies at Goa University, India.
Mohd. Sanjeer Alam is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India.
Hilal Ahmed is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi, India.
