Studies in Indian Politics

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Volume 5, issue 2, 2017

The Better Angels of Their Natures? The Declining Rate of Homicides against India’s Dalits pp. 159-180

Peter Mayer

The Associational Basis of Vanniyar Organizations in Tamil Nadu pp. 181-192

R. Saravana Raja

The Historical Legacy of Party System Stability in Kerala pp. 193-204

Balu Sunilraj and Oliver Heath

The Roots and Varieties of Political Conservatism in India pp. 205-217

Christophe Jaffrelot

Collective Conservatism and the Constituent Assembly Debates: The Case of Free Speech in India pp. 218-232

Malvika Maheshwari

The Political Economy of Economic Conservatism in India: From Moral Economy to Pro-business Nationalism pp. 233-247

Adnan Naseemullah

The Congress in Gujarat (1917–1969): Conservative Face of a Progressive Party pp. 248-261

Christophe Jaffrelot

Teaching Political Violence: Experiences from a South Asian Classroom pp. 262-268

Ankur Datta

Studying Indian Politics with Large-scale Data: Indian Election Data 1961–Today pp. 269-275

Francesca R. Jensenius and Gilles Verniers

Vote Choice of Indian Voters: Guided or Independent? pp. 276-285

Shreyas Sardesai and Vibha Attri

Book Review: James Manor, The Writings of James Manor: Politics and State–Society Relations in India pp. 286-287

Anusha

Book Review: Tarini Bedi, The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena: Political Matronage in Urbanizing India pp. 287-289

Garima Dhabhai

Book Review: Kanchan Chandra. (Ed.), Democratic Dynasties: State, Party and Family in Contemporary Indian Politics pp. 289-291

Ritambhara Malaviya

Book Review: Pranab Kumar Das (ed.), Decentralisation, Governance and Development: An Indian Perspective and Satyajit Singh, The Local in Governance: Politics, Decentralization and Environment pp. 291-293

Himadri Chatterjee

Book Review: Anuj Bhuwania, Courting the People: Public litigation in Post Emergency India pp. 293-295

Awadhendra Sharan

Book Review: Prerna Singh, How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India pp. 295-297

Satyajit Singh

Book Review: Achin Vanik, After the Bomb and Ali Ahmed, India’s Doctrine Puzzle—Limiting War in South Asia pp. 297-299

Rajiv Nayan

Alfred Stepan (1936–2017) pp. 300-301

K. K. Kailash

Volume 5, issue 1, 2017

Political Pressures and Bureaucratic Consequences: Vignettes of Janmabhoomi Implementation in Andhra Pradesh pp. 1-17

Kiran Konkipudi and Suraj Jacob

After Silent Revolution: Most Marginalized Dalits and Local Democracy in Uttar Pradesh, North India pp. 18-31

Satendra Kumar

Padayatras and the Changing Nature of Political Communication in India pp. 32-41

Radhika Kumar

Decentralized Governance and Devolution of Funds to the Panchayats in India: A Critical Analysis of Two States pp. 42-54

M. Gopinath Reddy and Bishnu Mohapatra

Understanding Ethnicity-based Autonomy Movements: A Study of Manipur pp. 55-66

Komol Singha

Doing Political Science Differently: Experiences from an Institute of Social Sciences pp. 67-72

Jagannath Ambagudia

Political Processes under the Microscope: Comparative Ethnography as an Approach to Understanding Democracy and Elections in India pp. 73-81

Manisha Priyam

Time of Vote Choice in India pp. 82-91

Shreyas Sardesai and Jyoti Mishra

Book Review: Hilal Ahmed, Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestation pp. 92-93

Christophe Jaffrelot

Book Review: Rajshree Chandra (ed.), The Cunning of Rights: Law, Life, Biocultural pp. 93-95

Hidam Premananda

Book Review: Rekha Chowdhary, Jammu and Kashmir: Politics of Identity and Separatism pp. 95-97

Sangit Kumar Ragi

Book Review: Tariq Thachil, Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India pp. 97-99

Vibha Attri

Book Review: Sunil Khilnani, Vikram Raghavan and Arun K. Thiruvengadam (eds), Comparative Constitutionalism in South Asia, Maneesha Tikekar (ed.), Constitutionalism and Democracy in South Asia; Political Developments in India’s Neighbourhood and Mark Tushent and Madhav Khosla (eds), Unstable Constitutionalism: Law and Politics in South Asia pp. 99-102

Alisha Dhingra

Book Review: Paula Banerjee, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury and Atig Ghosh (eds), The State of Being Stateless: An Account of South Asia pp. 102-104

Ravi Sriramachandran

Assembly Elections 2014–2016 pp. 105-158

Vibha Attri and Himanshu Bhattacharya

Volume 4, issue 2, 2016

Editorial pp. vii-vii

Suhas Palshikar

Ambedkar’s Framing of the ‘Political’ within Ethical Practice pp. 143-158

Rajeev Kadambi

Women Police in the City of Delhi: Gender Hierarchies, ‘Pariah Femininities’ and the Politics of Presence pp. 159-177

Santana Khanikar

Spurn Thy Neighbour: The Politics of Indigeneity in Manipur pp. 178-190

Thongkholal Haokip

Disputed Waters: India, Pakistan and the Transboundary Rivers pp. 191-205

Amit Ranjan

Health Movement and Civil Society Activism: An Interface of Overlap and Exclusion pp. 206-217

Skylab Sahu

Quota for Patels? The Neo-middle-class Syndrome and the (partial) Return of Caste Politics in Gujarat pp. 218-232

Christophe Jaffrelot

What Does the International Mean? IR’s Deep Ontology and the Promise It Holds pp. 233-240

Atul Mishra

Design-based Approach in Social Science Research pp. 241-248

Anustubh Agnihotri and Rahul Verma

Book Review: Louise Tillin, Rajeshwari Deshpande and K.K. Kailash (eds), Politics of Welfare: Comparisons across Indian States pp. 249-250

Ajit Phadnis

Book Review: Manish K. Jha and Pushpendra (eds), Traversing Bihar: The Politics of Development and Social Justice pp. 251-252

Jeffrey Witsoe

Book Review: Sanjay Ruparelia, Divided We Govern: Coalition Politics in Modern India pp. 252-253

Mona G. Mehta

Book Review: Anastasia Piliavsky (ed.), Patronage as Politics in South Asia pp. 254-256

Rahul Verma

Book Review: Samir Kumar Das (ed.), India: Democracy and Violence pp. 256-258

Ngoru Nixon

Book Review: K.S. Subramanian, State, Policy and Conflicts in Northeast India pp. 258-259

Akhil Ranjan Dutta

‘Persistent Centrism’ and Its Explanations pp. 260-265

Ujjwal Kumar Singh and Anupama Roy

A Distinctive Indian Political Economy: New Concepts and a Synthesizing Framework pp. 266-273

Aseema Sinha

Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph: In Memoriam pp. 274-279

Asha Sarangi

Volume 4, issue 1, 2016

Editorial pp. vii-vii

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Democracy, Governance and Political Parties in India: An Introduction pp. 1-7

K.C. Suri, Carolyn Elliott and David Hundt

India’s States: The Struggle to Govern pp. 8-21

James Manor

Clientelism and the Democratic Deficit pp. 22-36

Carolyn Elliott

Politics as Business: An Analysis of the Political Parties in Contemporary India pp. 37-48

Prakash Sarangi

Dalit Parties and the Dilemmas of Democratization in Tamil Nadu pp. 49-62

Hugo Gorringe

Federal Coalitions in India: Strategic Calculations and Revolving-door Partners pp. 63-76

K.K. Kailash and Balveer Arora

Mass Politics and Institutional Restraint: Political Parties and the Election Commission of India pp. 77-89

Manjari Katju

Encapsulation without Integration? Electoral Democracy and the Ambivalent Moderation of Hindu Nationalism in India pp. 90-101

Subrata K. Mitra

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Left Government in West Bengal, 1977–2011: Strains of Governance and Socialist Imagination pp. 102-115

Hans Löfgren

Shodharthy: An Initiative towards Empowering Indian Language Students pp. 116-118

A.K. Verma

Political Ethnography as a Method for Understanding Urban Politics and Elections in India pp. 119-127

Manisha Priyam

Book Review: Jyotirmaya Tripathy and Sudarsan Padmanabhan (eds), The Democratic Predicament: Cultural Diversity in Europe and India pp. 128-130

Mithilesh Kumar Jha

Book Review: Sharachchandra Lele and Ajit Menon (eds), Democratizing Forest Governance in India pp. 130-132

Kamal Nayan Choubey

Book Review: A. Vinod Kumar, India and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime: The Perennial Outlier pp. 132-134

Rudra Chaudhuri

Book Review: Arjun Guneratne and Anita M. Weiss (eds), Pathways to Power: The Domestic Politics of South Asia pp. 134-135

Mark Schneider

Book Review: Paul Wallace (ed.), India’s 2014 Elections: A Modi-led BJP Sweep pp. 136-137

Pranav Gupta

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (1930–2015), Lloyd I. Rudolph (1927–2016): A Personal Tribute pp. 138-142

Philip Oldenburg