The Oxford Companion to Politics in India: Student Edition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198075928 ISBN 13: 9780198075929

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

This paperback edition with a new Preface is specially designed and priced for the student market. The thirty-eight essays provide every significant topic in the study of Indian politics by eminent experts. They address the links between Indian politics and institutions of the state, ideologies, political processes, social movements, identity politics, government policy, international affairs, and the academia.

The success of India's democratic political system despite immense and multidimensional diversity and differences has been a subject of longstanding academic debate and analysis. In the last few decades, in an increasingly globalized and multicultural world, India has carved its position as a global economic and political power, and Indian polity and society have witnessed rapid transformation in terms of structure, processes, success, and failures. Grasping this swift and phenomenal change is a mammoth task, and The Oxford Companion to Politics in India is the best resource to capture the macro as well as micro view of Indian politics in a global world.

Specially designed and priced to serve the needs of students and teachers of Indian politics, this unprecedented survey presents in one volume, thirty-eight essays on every theme of Indian politics written by experts in the field, and a substantial new Preface for the student readers. Clustered into eight sections, these essays address the links between Indian politics and institutions of the state, ideologies, political processes, social movements, identity politics, government policy, international affairs, and the academia. Weaving together historical narratives with fresh analyses, this volume provides an accessible yet deeply researched narrative of politics in modern India.

About this title

About the Author:

Niraja Gopal Jayal is Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance,Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is President and Chief Executive, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0198075928
• ISBN 13: 9780198075929
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 644
• Editor: Jayal Niraja Gopal, Mehta Pratap Bhanu