Overview for India's 2004 Elections: Grass-Roots and National Perspectives
Building on their insightful work on India's 1998 and 1999 parliamentary elections, distinguished scholars Ramashray Roy and Paul Wallace's current book focuses on the landmark elections of 2004. The three volumes together provide the most definitive scholarly treatment of post-independence Indian politics at the national and state levels. Thematically divided into two sections, the book focuses on: The national, theoretical and comparative perspectives on participation of women in the electoral process, caste dynamics, religion and nationalism, as well as federalism and factionalism. State-specific studies of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Meghalaya, Orissa, and West Bengal. Tribal politics, at a time when the politicization of ethnic identities is being increasingly felt in various parts of India. Bringing together contributors from India and abroad, this volume will be of interest to students and teachers of political science, journalists, as well as the informed, general reader.
Paul Wallace (Editor)
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Ramashray Roy (Editor)
Prof. Ramashray Roy is an eminent political philosopher who has, through his numerous writing, opened new vistas not only in different areas of social sciences but also in Vedic studies. Prof. Roy worked as a Senior Fellow as well as Director of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, Director of the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi as well as its National Fellow and Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advance Study, Shimla. He is currently the Fellow of the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. He has published more than two dozen books and over fifty articles in Journals in India and outside. His publications include Dalit, Development and Democracy; Politics and Society; Politics and Beyond; Sanskaras in India Tradition and Culture (SHIPRA).
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