Introduction: Politics in India
an overview / Atul Kohli and Prerna Singh
Part 1: Political Change. The Historical Inheritance of India’s Democracy / Maya Tudor
Gandhi’s India, the World’s Gandhi; Gandhi at Home and in the World / Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph
Nehru and his legacy / Jivanta Schoettli
India’s Minority Leaders / Niraja Gopal Jayal
Panchayati Raj Institutions / Rani D. Mullen
The Changing Fortunes of the Bharatiya Janata Party / Amrita Basu
Regional and Caste parties / Suhas Palshikar
Caste and Political Parties in India: Do Indians vote their caste
while casting their vote? / Christophe Jaffrelot
Dalit Politics: Untouchability, Identity, and Assertion / Hugo Gorringe
Class Politics in India: Euphemization, Identity, and Power / Ronald J. Herring
Reservations / Gurpreet Mahajan
The State and Civil Society in Communal Violence: Sparks and Fires / Ashutosh Varshney and Joshua Gubler
Insurgencies in India / Paul Staniland
People’s Movements in India / Jennifer Bussell
Part 2: Political Economy: Economic and social development. India’s economic development / R. Nagaraj
The State and the Capitalist Class in India / Vivek Chibber and Adaner Usmani
Politics and Redistribution in India / John Harriss
Corruption in India / Stuart Corbridge
Public goods provision and social development in India / Prerna Singh
Labor Regulation, Trade Unions and Unemployment / Emmanuel Teitelbaum
Part 3: Diversity of Regional Developments. Uttar Pradesh: New Patterns of Mobilization in the 1990s and Beyond / Sudha Pai
Kerala in Comparative Perspective: Movements, Politics and Democracy / Patrick Heller
Tamil Nadu / Adam Ziegfeld
West Bengal / Manali Desai
Part 4: India and the World. India and the World: The vicissitudes of mutual adjustment / Baldev Raj Nayar
India in Asia: Geostrategic and economic considerations / Lawrence Sáez
The Indo-Pakistani Conflict / Sumit Ganguly
India and Nuclear Weapons / Kanti Bajpai
India's evolving security strategy / Vipin Narang
International Migration and its consequences for India / Devesh Kapur.