Democracy and Unity in India - Understanding the All India Phenomenon, 1940-1960

This book analyses the ways in which organizations and individuals in India grappled with and contested definitions of democracy and unity in the decades directly preceding and following independent Indian statehood.

Sommario

1. Introduction: Unity, Democracy, and the All India Phenomenon 2. Naming Castes Politics in Indian Unity 3. Democracy, Voice, Principle: The Affective Politics of the All India Scheduled Castes Federation 4. All Indian Women: Citizenship Politics of the All India Women’s Conference 5. Conclusion: All India Ghosts of Unity and Democracy

Info autore

Emily Rook-Koepsel is the Assistant Director of Academic Affairs at the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Her most recent articles consider the link between state violence, public order, and dissent in India.

Riassunto

This book analyses the ways in which organizations and individuals in India grappled with and contested definitions of democracy and unity in the decades directly preceding and following independent Indian statehood.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Emily Rook-Koepsel, Emily (University of Pittsburgh Rook-Koepsel
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.2019
• EAN: 9780367030889
• ISBN: 978-0-367-03088-9
• Pagine: 140
• Serie: Routledge Studies in South Asian History
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, India, Political structures: democracy, Asian History, Political structures / systems: democracy