Representing India - Ethnic Diversity and the Governance of Public Institutions

Informationen zum Autor NIRAJA GOPAL JAYAL is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her books include Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (1999), Drought, Policy and Politics in India (1993) and Democracy in India (2001). Klappentext This is a study of how ethnic diversity is represented in public institutions in India, and how politics manages ethnic inequalities. New data on representational patterns in parliament cover the diversity of caste, tribe and religion. Material disadvantage is central to ethnic and cultural inequality as social and economic inequalities overlap. Zusammenfassung This is a study of how ethnic diversity is represented in public institutions in India! and how politics manages ethnic inequalities. New data on representational patterns in parliament cover the diversity of caste! tribe and religion. Material disadvantage is central to ethnic and cultural inequality as social and economic inequalities overlap. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface; N.G.Jayal Preface; T.Mkandawire Acknowledgements Representing India: Democracy and Diversity Mapping Diversity in India Managing Diversity: Institutions, Policies and Politics Promoting Diversity and Protecting the Vulnerable Negotiating Diversity: Parties and the Electoral System Representing Diversity in the Institutions of Governance Conclusion Appendix Notes References Index

List of contents

List of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface; N.G.Jayal Preface; T.Mkandawire Acknowledgements Representing India: Democracy and Diversity Mapping Diversity in India Managing Diversity: Institutions, Policies and Politics Promoting Diversity and Protecting the Vulnerable Negotiating Diversity: Parties and the Electoral System Representing Diversity in the Institutions of Governance Conclusion Appendix Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: N Jayal, N. Jayal, Niraja Gopal Jayal
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.04.2006
• EAN: 9781403986122
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-8612-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Ethnicity, Inequality and Public Sector Governance; Ethnicity, Inequality, and Pub; Ethnicity, Inequality and Public Sector Governance; Ethnicity, Inequality, and Pub
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Social Inequality, Cultural Studies, Political Sociology, Social & ethical issues, Politics & government, Ethnicity, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Regional Studies, Economic development, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Structure, Ethnicity Studies, Development Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Culture—Study and teaching, Asian Culture, Ethnology—Asia, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection