Indian Democracy - Origins, Trajectories, Contestations (Hardcover)

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 135mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Library binding
Pages:	208
ISBN-13:	978-0-7453-3893-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy
LSN:	0-7453-3893-3
Barcode:	9780745338934

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