Studies in Indian Politics

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Volume 9, issue 2, 2021

Editorial pp. 151-151

Suhas Palshikar

Dhirubhai L. Seth 1936-2021: Commemorating Intellectual Politics pp. 152-154

Hilal Ahmed,

Of Caste and Indian Politics: A Detour Through D. L. Sheth and Beyond pp. 155-164

Sasheej Hegde

The Double Life of Dissent: Art, Politics and the Predicaments of Democracy in India pp. 165-178

Malvika Maheshwari

Behind the Popular Narrative: Negotiating Life and Political Engagement in Conflicted Kashmir pp. 179-191

Wahid Ahmad Dar

Governance and Democracy in Jammu and Kashmir: Measuring Public Trust in Formal Institutions pp. 192-207

Aijaz Ashraf Wani and Muzamil Yaqoob

Letters from a Province: Harekrushna Mahtab to Jawaharlal Nehru, 1947–1949 pp. 208-220

Rakesh Ankit

What Do Preambles Do? A Study of Constitutional Intent and Reality pp. 221-238

Neha Ummareddy and Aniket Alam

Did the Poona Pact Disenfranchise the ‘Depressed Classes’? An Analysis of the 1936–1937 and 1945–1946 Provincial Elections pp. 239-253

Sujay Biswas

Bypassing the Patronage Trap: Evidence from Delhi Assembly Election 2020 pp. 254-272

Ankita Barthwal and Asim Ali

New Education Policy: Notes from Academic Hinterlands pp. 273-274

Rajeshwari Deshpande

Teaching Political Science in the Margins pp. 275-277

Abhay Datar

Bringing Back the Absent: Some Reflections pp. 278-282

Chaitra Redkar

Concepts, Methods and Indian Politics: A Conversation with Sudipta Kaviraj pp. 283-290

Hilal Ahmed

Book review: Devesh Kapur and Madhav Khosla (Eds.), Regulation in India: Design, Capacity, Performance pp. 291-292

John Echeverri-Gent

Book review: Sanjib Baruah, In the Name of the Nation pp. 292-294

Samir Sharma

Book review: Paul Wallace (Ed.), India’s 2019 Elections: The Hindutva Wave and Indian Nationalism pp. 294-297

Ishta Vohra

Book review: Shirin M. Rai and Carole Spary. Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament pp. 297-299

Bijayalaxmi Nanda

Book review: Florian Matthey-Prakash, The Right to Education in India: The Importance of Enforceability of a Fundamental Right pp. 299-301

Rashmi Gopi

Book review: Elizabeth Chatterjee and Matthew McCartney, eds. Class and Conflict: Revisiting Pranab Bardhan’s Political Economy of India pp. 301-303

Sudhir Kumar Suthar

Volume 9, issue 1, 2021

Can the Popular Disembody Populism? Students and the Re-appropriation of the Nationalist Floating Signifier in Contemporary Indian Politics pp. 7-20

Jean-Thomas Martelli

Religious Subjectivities and Digital Collectivities on Social Networking Sites in India pp. 21-36

Kiran Vinod Bhatia

Engendering Political Labour: Findings from a Kerala Village pp. 37-50

Anamika Ajay

Two Strands of Nationalism: A Narrative on the Mizo War of Independence pp. 51-63

Zarzosanga

Is Politics Going Casteless? A dialogue with Politically Untied Jatis in North India pp. 64-75

Prashant K. Trivedi and Shilp Shikha Singh

Introduction to Special Section on the Politics of Knowledge in Development pp. 76-77

Madhulika Banerjee

The Politics of Knowledge in Development: An Analytical Frame pp. 78-90

Madhulika Banerjee

State, Floods and Politics of Knowledge: A Case of the Mahananda Basin of Bihar pp. 91-104

Pankaj Kumar Jha

Politics of Knowledge in Development: Explorations in Seed Sovereignty pp. 105-117

Pushpa Singh

Technology and Collective Action Event Size: Lessons for India pp. 118-123

William O’Brochta

Generations of Constitutional Studies pp. 124-131

Anupama S. Krishnan and K. K. Kailash

Book Review: Jennifer Bussell. Clients and Constituents: Political Responsiveness in Patronage Democracies pp. 132-133

Priyadarshini Singh

Book Review: Jason Keith Fernandes, Citizenship in a Caste Polity: Religion, Language and Belonging in Goa pp. 134-135

Mithilesh Kumar Jha

Book Review: Ujjwal Kumar Singh and Anupama Roy. Election Commission of India: Institutionalising Democratic Uncertainties pp. 135-137

Vikas Tripathi

Book Review: Madhav Khosla. India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy pp. 137-139

Alisha Dhingra

Book Review: Jyotiprasad Chatterjee and Suprio Basu. Left Front and After: Understanding the Dynamics of Poriborton in West Bengal and Suman Nath. People-Party-Policy Interplay in India: Micro-dynamics of Everyday Politics in West Bengal, c. 2008–2016 pp. 139-141

Ayan Guha

Volume 8, issue 2, 2020

Special Section on Politics and Society Between Elections pp. 131-134

Siddharth Swaminathan and Sandeep Shastri

Historical Burden or Lacking Effort? Caste Perceptions of Dalit Socio-economic Conditions pp. 135-151

Siddharth Swaminathan

The Effect of Affect: Friendship, Education and Prejudice in India pp. 152-169

Asha Venugopalan

School Choice and Implementation: Survey Evidence Across Indian States pp. 170-185

Srikrishna Ayyangar, Sham N. Kashyap, Prateeti Prasad and Rishikesh B.S.

Governance, Public Service Delivery and Trust in Government pp. 186-202

Jyoti Mishra and Vibha Attri

BJP’s Ideological Hegemony: Combining Religious Conservatism and Nationalism pp. 203-213

Sanjay Kumar and Pranav Gupta

In the Name of Cow: Legal–Constitutional Discourse and the Contours of Contemporary Indian Politics pp. 214-229

Nazima Parveen

Governance and Electoral Integrity: Evidence from Subnational India pp. 230-246

Zaad Mahmood

In the Hindutva Heartland: Bharatiya Janata Party’s Superficial Democratization in Gujarat pp. 247-265

Sharik Laliwala

Communal Violence in Twenty-first Century India: Moving Beyond the Hindi Heartland pp. 266-280

Sanjal Shastri

Reflections on Teaching–Learning in Gandhi Studies pp. 281-288

Swaha Das and Hari Nair

Methods in a Time of Crisis pp. 289-289

Divya Vaid

From Fieldsite to ‘Fieldsite’: Ethnographic Methods in the Time of COVID pp. 290-293

Thomas Chambers

Lockdown Anthropology and Online Surveys: Unprecedented Methods for Unprecedented Times pp. 294-297

Nicholas J. Long

Book review: Sudha Pai (Ed.), Constitutional and Democratic Institutions in India: A Critical Analysis pp. 298-300

Manjari Katju

Book review: Gautam Bhatia, Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech Under the Indian Constitution, Abhinav Chandrachud, Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India and Anushka Singh, Sedition in Liberal Democracies pp. 300-303

Jinee Lokaneeta

Book review: Amit Ahuja, Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties without Ethnic Movements pp. 303-304

Harish S. Wankhede

Book review: Pradip Ninan Thomas, The Politics of Digital India: Between Local Compulsions and Transnational Pressures pp. 304-306

P. Arun

Volume 8, issue 1, 2020

Governing India: Evolution of Programmatic Welfare in Andhra Pradesh pp. 7-21

Rahul Mukherji and Seyed Hossein Zarhani

Ambedkar’s Critique of Recognition pp. 22-38

Jadumani Mahanand

Lal Bahadur Shastri, 1964–1966: Leader at a Glance pp. 39-57

Rakesh Ankit

The Bharatiya Jana Sangh and the First General Election in West Bengal: The Enigma of Hindu Politics in early 1950s pp. 58-68

Koushiki Dasgupta

Saffronizing the periphery: Explaining the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party in contemporary Assam pp. 69-84

Smitana Saikia

Politics and Social Consciousness in Bankim Literature in the context of Lokrahasya: A Post-Colonial Reading of a ‘Colonial’ Text pp. 85-97

Arpita Mukherji

Role of Visual Rhetoric in Teaching and Learning Political Science pp. 98-104

Aparna Vincent

An Overview of Longitudinal Research Designs in Social Sciences pp. 105-114

Jyoti Bala

Book review: Raheel Dhattiwala, Keeping the Peace: Spatial Differences in Hindu–Muslim Violence in Gujarat in 2002 pp. 115-116

Stuart Corbridge

Book review: Malvika Maheshwari, Art Attacks: Violence and Offense-taking in India pp. 116-118

Lawrence Liang

Book review: Rohit De, A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic and Gautam Bhatia, The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts pp. 118-120

Shefali Jha

Book review: Pradeep K. Chhibber and Rahul Verma, Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India pp. 120-121

E. Sridharan