Preface by Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Introduction: What is New India and How More Democratic is it?
Pratick Mallick
Chapter 1
Hindutva and Caste based Reservation: Debate, Discourse and Dilemma
Ayan Guha
Chapter 2
Women and the Nation in Hindu Nationalism
Proma Raychaudhury
Chapter 3
Eminent Domain, Development and Land Acquisitions for SEZs in Contemporary India
Meenakshi Gogoi
Chapter 4
Decoding Modi’s ‘New Welfarism’: Populist rhetoric or substantive empowerment?
Ambar Kumar Ghosh
Chapter 5
Critical Analysis of the Post-370 Elections in Kashmir
Abhinav Pandya
Chapter 6
Between Two Giants: The Transformation of the Governance Landscape of Arunachal Pradesh
Shubhanginee Singh
Chapter 7
Democracy, Identity and Citizenship: Perceptions from India’s Northeast
Biplab Debnath & Dipikanta Chakraborty
Chapter 8
Politics of Cultural Misrecognitions and the Rise of Identity Consolidations in Post Left West Bengal
Suman Nath
Chapter 9
Citizenship Amendment Rules, 2024 and the Re-emergence of the Citizenship Conundrum
Ayan Guha
Chapter 10
Exporting the Democratic Norms: Issues and Contestations in India’s Global and Regional Approaches
Biplab Debnath
Chapter 11
Positioning Odisha's Neoliberal Transformation within a Historical Framework
Saumya Ranjan Nath
Biography
Pratick Mallick is a doctoral candidate at Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. He is Assistant Professor in Political Science at Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, New Barrackpore, Kolkata, India. His research interests are in social and political anthropology and social economics of the subaltern middle classes of India.
‘This volume appears to be a collection of really interesting research on political and social change in post-liberalization India.’
--Surupa Gupta,
Professor of Political science & International Relations,
University of Mary Washington
‘This is a wide-angled exploration of the democratic improvements, setbacks, and paradoxes that have unfolded in India since the 1991 economic reforms. Such discussions are indispensable for anyone trying to understand India’s long-term political development in its own terms.’
–Kathinka Frøystad,
Professor of Modern South Asian Studies,
University of Oslo
