Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty-Year Perspective,1956-2006

Description

The essays in the three-volume series, Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty-Year Perspective, 1956-2006, span over five decades of the Rudolphs' scholarship on politics in India. This work brings out the distinctiveness of Indian democratic experience through a contextual political analysis.

The Realm of Institutions, the second of the three volumes, presents the Rudolphs' work on state formation and institutional change. By comparison with the Eurocentrism and essentialism of most work on state formation, these essays contrast state formation processes in Asia and India with those in the West. The authors address topics such as changing forms of representation, contestations over civil-military relations and sovereignty, transformations of the federal system and changes in the legitimacy and effectiveness of political institutions.

About the author

Lloyd I. Rudolph is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Chicago. He served as Chair of the University's Committee on International Relations.

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph is William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, University of Chicago. She served as President of the American Political Science Association and of the Association for Asian Studies.

Table of contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
I. Identity Politics Introduction
1. The Political Role of India's Caste Associations (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
2. Urban Life and Populist Radicalism: Dravidian Politics in Madras (Lloyd I. Rudolph)
3. The Modernity of Tradition: The Democratic Incarnation of Caste in India (Lloyd I. Rudolph)
4. Regional Patterns of Education: Rimland and Heartland in Indian Education (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
5. Student Politics and National Politics in India (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph [With Karuna Ahmed])
II. Interpreting Lives: Gandhi and Amar Singh INTRODUCTION
6. Becoming a Diarist: The Making of an Indian Personal Document (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph)
7. Setting the Table: Amar Singh aboard the SS Mohawk (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph)
8. Self as Other: Amar Singh's Diary as Reflexive 'Native' Ethnography (Lloyd I. Rudolph)
9. The New Courage: An Essay on Gandhi's Psychology (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
III: Making US Foreign Policy Introduction
10. The United States, India, and South Asia (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
11. The Great Game in Asia: Revisited and Revised (Lloyd I. Rudolph)
12. The Faltering Novitiate: Rajiv at Home and Abroad in 1988 (Lloyd I. Rudolph)
13. Dehomogenizing Religious Formations: An Alternative to the Clash of Civilizations Thesis (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
14. Making US Foreign Policy towards South Asia (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
IV. Writing as Public Intellectuals INTRODUCTION
15. India Turns to a Conciliator (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
16. India Campaigns: Cows, Corruption and Demonstrations (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
17. From Madras, View of the Southern Film (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
18. Jaipur Notes: Experiencing the Emergency (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
19. The East Psychoanalyzed: Review of Lucian Pye with Mary W. Pye, Asian Power and Politics (Lloyd I. Rudolph)
20. All the Raj in Jaipur (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
21. Modern Hate: How Ancient Animosities Get Invented (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph)
22. The Occidental Tagore (Lloyd I. Rudolph)
23. Organized Chaos: Why India Works (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Index