More than 70 years after its founding, with Narendra Modi's
authoritarian Hindu nationalists in government, is the dream of
Indian democracy still alive and well? India's pluralism has always
posed a formidable challenge to its democracy, with many believing
that a clash of identities based on region, language, caste,
religion, ethnicity and tribe would bring about its demise. With
the meteoric rise to power of the Bharatiya Janata Party, its
solidity is once again called into question: is Modi's Hindu
majoritarianism an anti-democratic attempt to transform India into
a monolithic Hindu nation from which minorities and dissidents are
forcibly excluded? With examinations of the way that class and
caste power shaped the making of India's postcolonial democracy,
the role of feminism, the media, and the public sphere in
sustaining and challenging democracy, this book interrogates the
contradictions at the heart of the Indian democratic project,
examining its origins, trajectories and contestations.
General
| Imprint: |
Pluto Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
March 2019 |
| Editors: |
Alf Gunvald Nilsen
• Kenneth Bo Nielsen
• Anand Vaidya
|
| Dimensions: |
215 x 135 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
176 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-7453-3892-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-7453-3892-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780745338927 |
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