More than 70 years after its founding, with Narendra Modi's authoritarian Hindu nationalists in government, is the dream of Indian democracy still alive and well? India's pluralism has always posed a formidable challenge to its democracy, with many believing that a clash of identities based on region, language, caste, religion, ethnicity and tribe would bring about its demise. With the meteoric rise to power of the Bharatiya Janata Party, its solidity is once again called into question: is Modi's Hindu majoritarianism an anti-democratic attempt to transform India into a monolithic Hindu nation from which minorities and dissidents are forcibly excluded? With examinations of the way that class and caste power shaped the making of India's postcolonial democracy, the role of feminism, the media, and the public sphere in sustaining and challenging democracy, this book interrogates the contradictions at the heart of the Indian democratic project, examining its origins, trajectories and contestations.
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Origins, Trajectories, Contestations
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Origins, Trajectories, Contestations
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction. Trajectories and Crossroads: Indian Democracy at 70
- 1. Democratic Origins I: India’s Constitution and the Missing Revolution
- 2. Democratic Origins II: The Minority Question in South Asia
- 3. Democratic Origins III: Violence and/in the Making of Indian Democracy
- 4. Democratic Origins IV: Comment
- 5. The State and/of the Media in Modi’s India
- 6. Writing Counter-insurgency, Conflict and Democracy
- 7. Democratic Trajectories I: Congressism, Anti-Congressism, and Composing the ‘People-as-a-Whole’
- 8. Democratic Trajectories II: Merit and Caste in Contemporary India
- 9. Democratic Trajectories III: Ritual Inclusivity in Turbulent Times
- 10. Democratic Trajectories IV: Comment
- 11. India’s Democracy: Contest for the Nation’s Core
- 12. Feminism and the Politics of Gender
- Conclusion. Indian Democracy and Its Prospects: 2019 and Beyond
- About the Editors
- Notes on Contributors
- Notes
- Index
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