Studies in Indian Politics

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Volume 11, issue 2, 2023

Editorial Note pp. 169-169

Suhas Palshikar

From the Nation’s ‘Steel Frame’ to Insubordinate Workers: Tracing Changes in the Figure of the Post-colonial Civil Servant from 1947 to 1966 pp. 170-179

Vipin Krishna

The Shifting Trajectories of Hindutva: Bharat Sevashram Sangha and the Making of a Saffron Wave in Contemporary West Bengal pp. 180-191

Koushiki Dasgupta

Dewan Chaman Lall: From Trade Unions to the Indian Union, 1946–1966 pp. 192-204

Rakesh Ankit

Introduction to Special Section: The Indian Voter pp. 205-207

Suhas Palshikar and Rajeshwari Deshpande

Age and Party Choice: Generational Shift in India pp. 208-224

K. K. Kailash

Mapping Class and Electoral Participation in India from 1996 to 2019 pp. 225-257

Divya Vaid

Caste, Class and Vote: Consolidation of the Privileged and Dispersal of Underprivileged pp. 258-273

Suhas Palshikar and Jyoti Mishra

Economic Ideology in Indian Politics: Why Do Elite and Mass Politics Differ? pp. 274-288

Rahul Verma and Pradeep K. Chhibber

Electoral Participation and Political Choice Among Muslims pp. 289-303

Mohd. Sanjeer Alam

The Urban Voter: Emerging Trend and Changing Pattern pp. 304-316

Sanjay Kumar

Media Exposure and Vote Choice in India, 1996–2019 pp. 317-334

Shreyas Sardesai

Teaching International Relations Through Films pp. 335-341

Rajdeep Pakanati

Book review: Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur (Eds), Internal Security in India: Violence, Order and the State pp. 342-344

Sharmila Purkayastha

Book review: Atul Mishra, The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan: Post-partition Statehood in South Asia pp. 344-345

Robert Mizo

Book review: Nazima Parveen, Contested Homelands: Politics of Space and Identity pp. 346-347

Shruti Dubey

Book review: Kishalay Bhattacharjee, Where the Madness Lies: Citizen Accounts of Identity and Nationalism pp. 347-349

Jigyasa Sogarwal

Book review: Vasanthi Srinivasan, Virtue and Human Ends: Political Ideas From Indian Classics pp. 349-351

Priyanka Jha

Book review: Mayur R. Suresh, Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi Courts pp. 351-352

Sakshi Rai

Obituary pp. 353-354

Suhas Palshikar

Volume 11, issue 1, 2023

Editorial Note pp. 7-7

Suhas Palshikar

Note on Special Section: Comparative Assessments of Indian Democracy pp. 8-9

Rajeshwari Deshpande

Parties, Civil Society and Democratic Deepening: Comparing India, Brazil and South Africa pp. 10-26

Patrick Heller

Strongman: The Extraordinary Leaders of India and the Philippines pp. 27-38

Arild Engelsen Ruud

Democracy in South Asia: An Expanding ‘Imagination’ pp. 39-48

Sandeep Shastri

The National Bias of India’s First-Past-The-Post System pp. 49-65

Narendar Pani, Debosree Banerjee and Paul Thomas

Anticipating the Threat of Democratic Majoritarianism: Ambedkar on Constitutional Design and Ideology Critique, 1941–1948 pp. 66-84

Rahul Govind

On the Editions of Dr B. R. Ambedkar’s The Buddha and His Dhamma pp. 85-101

Chiangmong Khiamniungan

Hindu Nationalism and Right-wing Ecology: RSS, Modi and Motherland Post-2014 pp. 102-117

Mukul Sharma

Gujarat 2022 Elections: Explaining BJP’s Hegemony pp. 118-133

Christophe Jaffrelot and Mahesh Langa

Comparative Assessments of Indian Democracy pp. 134-139

Dishil Shrimankar

‘Documents of Power’: Historical Method and the Study of Politics pp. 140-149

Tanweer Fazal

Book review: Jelle J. P. Wouters, ed. Vernacular Politics in Northeast India: Democracy, Ethnicity & Indigeneity pp. 150-152

Ankur Tamuli Phukan

Book review: Subrata K. Mitra, Governance by Stealth: The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Making of the Indian State pp. 152-153

Shivani Kapoor

Book review: Mukulika Banerjee, Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India pp. 154-155

Nirvan Pradhan

Book review: Anupama Roy, Citizenship Regimes, Law, and Belonging: The CAA and the NRC pp. 155-157

Raeesa Vakil

Volume 10, issue 2, 2022

Editorial Note pp. 163-163

Suhas Palshikar

State and Nation: Shall the Twain Ever Meet? pp. 164-175

Partha Chatterjee

Inequality and Capitalism in India pp. 176-184

Pranab Bardhan

Institutional ‘Presence’ and the Indian State: The Long Narrative pp. 185-200

Anupama Roy

Taxation and Accountability in Local Government: A Democratic Deficit in Andhra Pradesh pp. 201-213

Carolyn Elliott

What Lies Beneath the Successes of Hindutva: Reading the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2022 pp. 214-226

Prashant K. Trivedi and Shilp Shikha Singh

Saving Indian Villages: British Empire, the Great Depression and Gandhi’s Civil Disobedience Movement pp. 227-241

Alok Oak

Nehru’s Elephant Envoys: Animal Modernity, Orientalist Gaze and India’s Soft Power pp. 242-253

Aryama Ghosh

Sampling and Categorization of Households for Research in Urban India pp. 254-274

Tarun Arora and Katie Pyle

Teaching the State in Political Theory: Notes Towards an Alternative Framework pp. 275-282

Janaki Srinivasan

Teaching International Relations in Indian Universities: Issues and Challenges pp. 283-288

Sudhir Kumar Suthar and Shailza Singh

Beyond the Identitarian Deadlock: Why Mobile Methods Are Useful for Studying Media in Zones of Conflict pp. 289-297

Max Kramer

Book review: Shekhar Pathak, The Chipko Movement: A People’s History pp. 298-299

Pushpa Singh

Book review: Akhil Ranjan Dutta, Hindutva Regime in Assam: Saffron in the Rainbow and Nani Gopal Mahanta, Citizenship Debate over NRC & CAA: Assam and the Politics of History pp. 298-305

Papia Sengupta

Book review: Koushiki Dasgupta, Sadhus in Indian Politics: Dynamics of Hindutva pp. 300-301

Shashank Chaturvedi

Volume 10, issue 1, 2022

Editorial Note pp. 7-7

Suhas Palshikar

‘India @75: Religion and Citizenship in India’ pp. 8-13

Madhav Khosla and Milan Vaishnav

Reinventing the Republic: Faith and Citizenship in India pp. 14-30

Niraja Gopal Jayal

Hindu Nationalism: From Ethnic Identity to Authoritarian Repression pp. 31-47

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Representation and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court: Adjudicating Law and Religion in India pp. 48-61

Raeesa Vakil

New India, Hindutva Constitutionalism, and Muslim Political Attitudes pp. 62-78

Hilal Ahmed

Religion-as-Ethnicity and the Emerging Hindu Vote in India pp. 79-92

Neelanjan Sircar

The Politics of Knowledge of Medicinal Plants in India: Corporations, Collectors and Cultivators as Constituents pp. 93-106

Abhishek Handa

Politics of Knowledge in Development: The Case of Sugar as an Artificial Sweetener pp. 107-117

Arun Kumar Singh

The Role of Press in the Politics of Knowledge in Development: Challenges of Creating ‘Alternatives’ in Media pp. 118-131

Tripta Sharma

Teaching Indian Politics: How Independent Are We? pp. 132-137

K. C. Suri

Sound Subjects and Hearing Cultures: Towards an Acoustic Ethnography pp. 138-144

Ratheesh Kumar

Book review: Adam Michael Auerbach, Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums pp. 145-146

Manjesh Rana

Book review: Christophe Jaffrelot. Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Indian Democracy pp. 146-148

Tanvir Aeijaz

Book review: Peter Ronald deSouza, Hilal Ahmed and Mohd. Sanjeer Alam, Democratic Accommodations: Minorities in Contemporary India pp. 148-150

Krishnamurari Mukherjee

Book review: Jinee Lokaneeta, The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogation in India pp. 150-151

Vipul Mudgal

Book review: Bidyut Chakrabarty and Rajendra Kumar Pandey, Reconceptualizing Indian Democracy: The Changing Electorate pp. 151-153

Radhika Kumar