Exploring the Political in South Asia
About the Book Series
Exploring the Political in South Asia is devoted to the publication of research on the political cultures of the region. The books in this Series will present qualitative and quantitative analyses grounded in field research, and will explore the cultures of democracies in their everyday local settings, specifically the workings of modern political institutions, practices of political mobilisation, manoeuvres of high politics, structures of popular beliefs, content of political ideologies and styles of political leadership, amongst others. Through fine-grained descriptions of particular settings in South Asia, the studies presented in this Series will inform, and have implications for, general discussions of democracy and politics elsewhere in the world.
Emotions, Mobilisations and South Asian Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Amélie Blom, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal
March 31, 2021
This book highlights the role of emotions in the contentious politics of modern South Asia. It brings new methodological, theoretical and empirical insights to the mutual constitution of emotions and mobilisations in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. As such, it addresses three distinct but related ...
Rise of the Plebeians?: The Changing Face of the Indian Legislative Assemblies
1st Edition
Edited
By Christophe Jaffrelot, Sanjay Kumar
March 31, 2021
For decades, India has been a conservative democracy governed by the upper caste notables coming from the urban bourgeoisie, the landowning aristocracy and the intelligentsia. The democratisation of the ‘world’s largest democracy’ started with the rise of peasants’ parties and the politicisation of...
South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power
1st Edition
Edited
By David Gilmartin, Pamela Price, Arild Engelsen Ruud
August 05, 2019
This book brings ethnographies of everyday power and ritual into dialogue with intellectual studies of theology and political theory. It underscores the importance of academic collaboration between scholars of religion, anthropology, and history in uncovering the structures of thinking and action ...
Dalits in Neoliberal India: Mobility or Marginalisation?
1st Edition
Edited
By Clarinda Still
June 13, 2019
India‘s economic growth has brought opportunities for many but to what extent has it benefitted its ethnically-shaped underclass: the Dalits? Have Dalits fared better in a neoliberal India or have structural economic and social changes served to magnify Dalit disadvantage? This volume offers a ...
Broadening and Deepening Democracy: Political Innovation in Karnataka
1st Edition
By E Raghavan, James Manor
August 14, 2018
This book examines certain changes in the political make-up of Karnataka, between the early 1970s and the late 1980s, which, in turn, led to the birth of a unique democracy in the state. In a departure from most studies on political science and political history which pay little or no attention to ...
Retro-modern India: Forging the Low-caste Self
1st Edition
By Manuela Ciotti
August 14, 2018
Firmly situated within the analytics of the political economy of a north Indian province, this book explores self-fashioning in pursuit of the modern amongst low-caste Chamars. Challenging existing accounts of national modernity in the non-West, the book argues that subaltern classes shape their ...
The Vernacularisation of Democracy: Politics, Caste and Religion in India
1st Edition
By Lucia Michelutti
August 10, 2018
The book is an ethnographic exploration of how ‘democracy’ takes social and cultural roots in India and in the process shapes the nature of popular politics. It centres on a historically marginalised caste who in recent years has become one of the most assertive and politically powerful communities...
Politics, Landlords and Islam in Pakistan
1st Edition
By Nicolas Martin
December 04, 2017
This book offers unique insights into the changing nature of power and hierarchy in rural Pakistan from colonial times to present day. It shows how electoral politics and the erosion of traditional patron–client ties have not empowered the lower classes. The monograph highlights the persistence of ...
Criminal Capital: Violence, Corruption and Class in Industrial India
1st Edition
By Andrew Sanchez
November 28, 2017
Criminal Capital explores the relationship between neoliberalism, criminality and the reshaping of class in modern India. It discusses how the political vocabularies of urban industrial workers reflect the processes by which power is distributed across the region. Based upon field research among a ...
The Politics of Caste in West Bengal
1st Edition
Edited
By Uday Chandra, Geir Heierstad, Kenneth Nielsen
November 28, 2017
This volume offers for the first time a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the making and maintenance of a modern caste society in colonial and postcolonial West Bengal in India. Drawing on cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, it explains why caste continues to be neglected in the ...
Power and Influence in India: Bosses, Lords and Captains
1st Edition
Edited
By Pamela Price, Arild Engelsen Ruud
January 20, 2016
Taking cognisance of the lack of studies on leadership in modern India, this book explores how leadership is practiced in the Indian context, examining this across varied domains — from rural settings and urban neighbourhoods to political parties and state governments. The importance of individual ...
Why India Votes?
1st Edition
By Mukulika Banerjee
April 30, 2014
Why India Votes? offers a fascinating account of the Indian electorate through a series of comprehensive ethnographic explorations conducted across the country — Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Rajasthan. It ...