At Home with Democracy: A Theory of Indian Politics

Synopsis

Examines issues of Indian politics at the right level of abstraction, offering an analytical framework that provides the basis for a theory of Indian Politics.

Studies the impacts of democracy on different aspects of the political process as well as the implications of the Indian political experience for global democratic theorizing.

Analyzes the three crucial processes of secularization, politicization and classization, which have long-term consequences for changes in the social structure and institutions of democracy in India.

This book presents numerous discussions of specific aspects of democratic politics, showing how ‘democracy’ can be projected as a model of deliberate imperfection – a model that tolerates various loose ends in the system – and how democracy recognizes a multiplicity of possible courses open to the system at any point in time. Against this backdrop, the book carefully analyzes the lifetime work of D.L. Sheth, which, seen as a whole, offers us with a theory of Indian politics.

The selection of fifteen essays has been clustered into five sections that signify the major domains of democratic politics: State, Nation, Democracy; Parapolitics of Democracy; Social Power and Democracy; Representation in Liberal Democracy; and Emerging Challenges of Democracy. These essays give a sense of the transformations and struggles that are underway in India, brought about by the dynamics of democratic politics. Each of the fifteen chapters focuses on one aspect, providing a unique analysis of the deepening of democracy in India.

Copyright:

2018

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9789811064128

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan

Date of Addition:

06/04/18

Copyrighted By:

D.L. Sheth, Peter Ronald de Souza

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Politics and Government

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