Companion to Indian Democracy: Resilience, Fragility, Ambivalence
Peter Ronald deSouza, "Companion to Indian Democracy: Resilience, Fragility, Ambivalence"
English | ISBN: 0367749351 | 2021 | 292 pages | EPUB | 857 KB
English | ISBN: 0367749351 | 2021 | 292 pages | EPUB | 857 KB
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary experiences of democracy in India. It explores the modes by which democracy as an idea, and as a practice, is interpreted, enforced, and lived in India’s current political climate.
The book employs ‘case studies’ as a methodological vantage point to evolve an innovative conceptual framework for the study of democracy in India. The chapters unpack a diverse range of themes such as democracy and Dalits; agriculture, new sociality and communal violence in rural areas; changing nature of political communication in India; role of anti-nuclear movements in democracies; issues of subaltern citizen’s voice, impaired governance and the development paradigm; free speech and segregation in the public sphere; and, the surveillance state and Indian democracy. These thematic explorations are arranged in an engaging sequence to offer a multifaceted narrative of Indian democracy especially in relation to the recent debates on citizenship and constitutionalism.
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