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Political Mobilisation and Democracy in India - States of Emergency (Paperback)
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Political Mobilisation and Democracy in India - States of Emergency (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
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This book addresses the paradox of political mobilization and the
failings of governance in India, with reference to the conflict
between secularism and Hindu nationalism, authoritarianism and
democracy.
It demonstrates how the Internal Emergency of 1975 led to increased
support of groups such as the BJS and the RSS, accounting for the
rise of political movements advocating Hindu nationalism - Hindutva
- as a response to rapid political mobilization triggered by the
Emergency, and an attempt by political elites to control this to
their advantage. Vernon Hewitt argues that the political
disjuncture between democracy and mobilization in India is partly a
function of the Indian state, the nature of a caste-class based
society, but also - and significantly - the contingencies of
individual leaders and the styles of rule. He shows how, in the
wake of the Emergency, the BJP and the RSS gained popularity and
power amid the on-going decline and fragmentation of the Congress,
whilst, at the same time, Hindu nationalism appeared to be of such
importance that Congress began aligning themselves with the Hindu
right for electoral gains. The volume suggests that, in the light
of these developments, the rise of the BJP should not be considered
as remarkable - or as transformative - as was at first imagined.
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