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In May 2019, Narendra Modi won the world's largest election.
Defying expectations, he led his Bharatiya Janata Party to a
resounding victory, with the highest vote share for any party in
thirty years, and was re-elected as India's Prime Minister. What
accounts for the scale of Modi's win? Why, despite economic
hardship and social strife, did Indians vote so overwhelmingly for
him and the BJP? This book explains the economic, social and
cultural processes that shaped political passions in India during
the spring and summer of 2019. It takes an interdisciplinary
approach, bringing together a stellar team of economists, political
scientists, sociologists, historians and geographers to explain
Modi's win. Together, the contributors compel us to take seriously
the 'structures of feeling' in politics. Love him or hate him, Modi
secured for himself a decisive re-election as India's Prime
Minister. Passionate politics is essential reading for anyone who
wants to understand how that happened. -- .
This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's
negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in
which the poor engage with their elected representatives, political
mediators and dominant classes in order to advance their claims.
Roy explains the variations by directing attention to the dynamic
interaction between the opportunity structures available to the
poor and the social relations of power in which they are embedded.
He analyses these intersections as 'political spaces' which both
enable and constrain popular practices. Through examination of the
'political spaces' available to the poor in four different
localities, Roy outlines a new analytic framework to understanding
poor people's politics. Based on these observations, the book makes
a strong case for an approach to democracy that appreciates
people's ambivalences towards democracy. Roy urges researchers of
democracy to step beyond either enthusiastic narratives - the
inevitability of democracy or apocalyptic accounts of democracy's
impending death.
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