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At Home with Democracy = A Theory of Indian Politics /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	At Home with Democracy / by D.L. Sheth ; edited by Peter Ronald deSouza.
其他題名:	A Theory of Indian Politics /
作者:	Sheth, D.L.
其他作者:	deSouza, Peter Ronald.
面頁冊數:	XIII, 289 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
標題:	Political theory. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6412-8
ISBN:	9789811064128

At Home with Democracy = A Theory of Indian Politics /
Sheth, D.L.

At Home with Democracy A Theory of Indian Politics /[electronic resource] :by D.L. Sheth ; edited by Peter Ronald deSouza. - 1st ed. 2018. - XIII, 289 p.online resource.

Introduction: ‘A Political theory of Indian Democracy’ by Peter Ronald deSouza -- Section I: State, Nation, Democracy -- Chapter 1: Historicizing India’s Nationhood: History as Contemporary Politics -- Chapter 2: State-Nation Building: The Making of Liberal Democracy -- Chapter 3: Crisis of Political Authority -- Section II: Parapolitics of Democracy -- Chapter 4: Civil Society and Non-party Political Formations -- Chapter 5: Transformative Politics of Grassroots Movements -- Chapter 6: Law and Outcasts of Development -- Section III: Social Power and Democracy -- Chapter 7: Secularization of Caste and the Making of the New Middle-Class -- Chapter 8: The Dalit Question in Four Frames -- Chapter 12: The Great Language Debate: Politics of Metropolitan Versus Vernacular India -- Section IV: Representation in Liberal Democracy -- Chapter 10: Interests and Identities: The Changing Politics of Representation -- Chapter 11: Minority Politics: The Shifting Terms of Policy Discourse -- Chapter 12: Growth of Communal Polarization in Gujarat and the Making of a Hindutva Laboratory -- Section V: Emerging Challenges of Democracy -- Chapter 13: Revisiting the Reservations Policy -- Chapter 14: Entering the Twenty-first Century: Changes in National Politics and Discourse -- Chapter 15: Democratizing Global Governance: A Minimalist Perspective.

This book presents numerous discussions of specific aspects of democratic politics, showing how ‘democracy’ can be projected as a model of deliberate imperfection – a model that tolerates various loose ends in the system – and how democracy recognizes a multiplicity of possible courses open to the system at any point in time. Against this backdrop, the book carefully analyzes the lifetime work of D.L. Sheth, which, seen as a whole, offers us with a theory of Indian politics. The selection of fifteen essays has been clustered into five sections that signify the major domains of democratic politics: State, Nation, Democracy; Parapolitics of Democracy; Social Power and Democracy; Representation in Liberal Democracy; and Emerging Challenges of Democracy. These essays give a sense of the transformations and struggles that are underway in India, brought about by the dynamics of democratic politics. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on one aspect, providing a unique analysi s of the deepening of democracy in India. ********** Peter Ronald deSouza has done signal service to the South Asian intellectual community by making more accessible some of the major writings of one of India’s most elusive, self-effacing and, at the same time, brilliantly original political sociologists. Without this collection of essays of D.L. Sheth, the story of India’s noisy, chaotic transition from a colonial social knowledge system to a more self-confident, more autonomous body of scholars would have remained incomplete. Admirers of Sheth have ranged over three generations — from M.N. Srinivas who considered Sheth’s work on politics of caste to be the best to come out of the stable of political scientists, to Rajni Kothari, who believed that Sheth was the crucial intellectual marker of the uniqueness of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, to D.R. Nagaraj, convinced that acceptance by Sheth was the final measure of the worth of a public intellectual. But till now, I have not come across any deep engagement with his work, not even in Latin America and East Europe, where his work for a while was taken more seriously. I hope this collection of essays will trigger a new interest in this remarkable intellectual whose access to and feel for the Other India has become legendary for many. Negotiating Sheth is also a way of renegotiating India. Professor Ashis Nandy is an Indian political psychologist, social theorist, and critic Professor D.L. Sheth is the greatest living political sociologist in the country. He has an uncanny sense of detecting sociological and political trends on the ground that others might take years to unravel. His work on caste and democracy is original, theoretically stimulating and widely recognized internationally. But there are many more insights stored in him that are waiting to burst forth. They would be exciting, illuminating and are bound to challenge canonical wisdom. Peter Ronald deSouza is performing a great service to the academic community by helping them emerge. Professor Rajeev Bhargava is a noted Indian political theorist.

ISBN: 9789811064128

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-10-6412-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1253540
Political theory.

LC Class. No.: JC11-607

Dewey Class. No.: 320.01

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