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Rise of Saffron Power - Reflections on Indian Politics

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Zusatztext 'This collection has very useful! very thoughtful essays that cover a wide range of issues surrounding the emergence of Hindutva! both at the level of governance and of culture and the growing relation between the two. It will add measurably to our understanding of an undeniably powerful and alarming development in India since the 1980s! which has now taken on the proportions of an emergency.'- Akeel Bilgrami! Sidney Morgenbesser?Professor of?Philosophy and Professor! Committee?on Global Thought!?Columbia University! USA'Mujibur Rehman has assembled a fine group of scholars to contribute excellent pieces on the rise of?saffron power in the aftermath of the 2014 parliamentary elections in India. This book will leave you better informed and more concerned about the far-reaching implications of the growth of Hindu nationalism.' - Amrita Basu! Paino Professor of Political Science and Sexuality! Women's and Gender Studies! Amherst College! USA'Essential reading for anyone working on contemporary Indian politics! Mujibur Rehman and his contributors expertly assess the changes in the Indian electoral landscape reflecting the rise of (and challenges to) "saffron power".' - Katharine Adeney! Professor and Director of The Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies! Faculty of Social Sciences! University of Nottingham! UK Informationen zum Autor Mujibur Rehman teaches at Jamia Millia Central University! New Delhi! India. He has received graduate research training at the University of Texas! USA! the University of Heidelberg! Germany! and theIndian Institute of Technology (IIT)! New Delhi. He wrote his doctoral dissertation on thePolitics of India's Economic Reform (1991/92-2004). He has edited Communalism in Post-colonial India: Changing Contours (Routledge 2016). The paperback edition of this volume will be released in 2018 with a Foreword by Romila Thapar. Presently he is working simultaneously on a book manuscript on Indian Muslims and on the politics of anti-Christian violence in India. Zusammenfassung This volume looks at the impact of the landmark 2014 elections and the consequent Assembly elections which have transformed the ideological discourse of India. It discusses a variety of topical issues in contemporary Indian politics, including the Modi wave, Aam Aadmi Party and the challenges it is confronting today, Hindutva and minorities, the decline of the Congress party, changes in foreign policy, as well as phenomenona like ‘love jihad ’ and ghar wapsi . It also draws together political trends from across the country, especially key states like Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Telangana and Seemandhra, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, and Meghalaya. The volume will be of great importance to scholars and researchers of Indian politics, public policy, sociology, and social policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionMujibur Rehman 1. 'Yes! but not in the South': The BJP! Congress and regional parties in South India James Chiriyankandath 2. India's foreign policy and Hindutva: The new impact of culture and identity on the formulation and practice of Indian foreign policy 2014-2017Arndt Michael 3. Allegories of 'love jihad' and ghar wapsi: Interlocking the socio-religious with the political Charu Gupta 4. Understanding theBJP's victory in Uttar Pradesh Sudha Pai And Avinash Kumar 5. Election 2014 and the battle for India's soulHarsh Mander 6. Collapse of the Congress party Zoya Hasan 7. Explaining the inconvenient truths of Indian political behaviour: Hindutva! Modi! and Muslim voters in 2014Mujibur Rehman 8. The dance of democracy: election 2014 and the marginalised and minorities Rudolf C. Heredia 9. Aam Aadmi Party's electoral performance in Punjab: implications for an all India political scenarioPritam Singh 10. The 'people' and the 'political': Aam Aadmi and the changing contours of the anti-corruption movemen...

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This volume looks at the impact of the landmark 2014 elections and the consequent Assembly elections which have transformed the ideological discourse of India. The volume will be of great importance to scholars and researchers of Indian politics, public policy, sociology and social policy.

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