1st Edition
Political Mobilisation and Democracy in India States of Emergency
By Vernon Hewitt
Copyright 2008
240 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book addresses the paradox of political mobilization and the failings of governance in India, with reference to the conflict between secularism and Hindu nationalism, authoritarianism and democracy.
It demonstrates how the Internal Emergency of 1975 led to increased support of groups such as the BJS and the RSS, accounting for the rise of political movements advocating Hindu nationalism -... Read more
Introduction 1. Emergencies, States and Societies: The Study of Indian Politics 2. State-Society Relations 1947-1950: A Democratic Polity? 3. Political Mobilisations: 1963-1971 4. The State and Political Crisis 1971-75 5. The State As Political Impasse: 1975-1980 6. Political Mobilisations: 1980-1996 7. Hindutva as Crisis: 1996-2004. Conclusions
Biography
Vernon Hewitt is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of The International Politics of South Asia (1992), Reclaiming the Past: Jammu and Kashmir (1996) and numerous articles and chapters on ethnicity and the post-colonial state, development, and colonial history.
"The book joins a rising tide of recent studies that attempt to provide a new perspective on democratic politics in India and will be of considerable interest to comparative politics scholars and Indian specialists." - S. A. Kochanek, CHOICE August 2008 Vol. 45 No. 11
