Rejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.
Rejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.
'Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism' examines the relationship between the functioning of democracy and the prior existence of religious plurality in three societies outside the West: India, Pakistan, and Turkey. The volume brings together political scientists, sociol…
"Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism examines the relationship between the functioning of democracy and the prior existence of religious plurality in three societies outside the West: India, Pakistan, and Turkey. All three societies had on one hand deep religious diver…
Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism examines the relationship between the functioning of democracy and the prior existence of religious plurality in three societies outside the West: India, Pakistan, and Turkey. The volume brings together political scientists, sociolog…
"Deliberative democracy can be seen as a part of the agenda of deepening democracy, wherein the public deliberation of citizens forms the basis of legitimate decision-making, with the people participating directly in the deliberations or making of decisions that affect them. Alt…
This text provides an insight into the functioning of formal legal, and political institutions in the Indian democracy. It discusses the role and the importance of the rule of law constitutional morality, and the opposition in its functioning.
"This volume reflects Beteille's engagement with the conception of formal, legal, political institutions (Parliament, Judiciary, and political parties), and practices in specific domains of public and political life- rule of law, constitutional morality, the opposition-without w…
On the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one harrowing months that followed, her regime unleashed a brutal cam…
Indian democracy: contradictions and reconciliations
This book shows the importance of democratic principles and various checks and balances in preventing systemic weaknesses despite thecontradictions inherent in Indian society.