Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- PREFACE
- Introduction DEMOCRATIC POLITICS IN INDIA: CONCEPTS, CHALLENGES AND DEBATES
- 1 RECONSTRUCTING DEMOCRATIC CONCERNS IN INDIA
- 2 ARE WE READY FOR DEMOCRACY? A FEW OBSERVATIONS
- 3 DEMOCRACY AND POVERTY IN INDIA
- 4 DEMOCRACY AND FEDERALISM IN INDIA: TWO EPISODES AND A SET OF QUESTIONS
- 5 INDIA'S COALITION FUTURE?
- 6 HOW DEMOCRATIC IS OUR PARLIAMENT? ELITE REPRESENTATION AND FUNCTIONAL EFFICIENCY OF LOK SABHA
- 7 DEMOCRACY'S JANUS FACE: A REVIEW OF ELECTIONS IN POST-INDEPENDENCE INDIA
- 8 THE NATURE OF THE OPPOSITION IN INDIA'S PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY
- 9 RESTYLING DEMOCRACY? MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND PUBLIC SPACE VIS-À-VIS INDIAN TELEVISION
- 10 THE POOR WORKING WOMEN: THE ACHILLES HEEL OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY – A PROFILE OF THE MAIDSERVANT FROM THE BUSTEES OF KOLKATA
- 11 HOW IS DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH ASIA? A COMPARISON OF THE ELITE AND THE MASS ATTITUDES
PREFACE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- PREFACE
- Introduction DEMOCRATIC POLITICS IN INDIA: CONCEPTS, CHALLENGES AND DEBATES
- 1 RECONSTRUCTING DEMOCRATIC CONCERNS IN INDIA
- 2 ARE WE READY FOR DEMOCRACY? A FEW OBSERVATIONS
- 3 DEMOCRACY AND POVERTY IN INDIA
- 4 DEMOCRACY AND FEDERALISM IN INDIA: TWO EPISODES AND A SET OF QUESTIONS
- 5 INDIA'S COALITION FUTURE?
- 6 HOW DEMOCRATIC IS OUR PARLIAMENT? ELITE REPRESENTATION AND FUNCTIONAL EFFICIENCY OF LOK SABHA
- 7 DEMOCRACY'S JANUS FACE: A REVIEW OF ELECTIONS IN POST-INDEPENDENCE INDIA
- 8 THE NATURE OF THE OPPOSITION IN INDIA'S PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY
- 9 RESTYLING DEMOCRACY? MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND PUBLIC SPACE VIS-À-VIS INDIAN TELEVISION
- 10 THE POOR WORKING WOMEN: THE ACHILLES HEEL OF INDIAN DEMOCRACY – A PROFILE OF THE MAIDSERVANT FROM THE BUSTEES OF KOLKATA
- 11 HOW IS DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH ASIA? A COMPARISON OF THE ELITE AND THE MASS ATTITUDES
Summary
Indian Democracy: Problems and Prospects is the culmination of a UGC sponsored national seminar on ‘The Changing Face of Indian Democracy: Regionalism and Coalition Governments’, organized by the Department of Political Science, Loreto College, Kolkata in September 2006.
The papers presented and published here reflect an attempt to trace and analyse the changing nature of Indian democracy in the last 60 years. The contributions of eminent academicians will no doubt enrich the ongoing discourse on Indian democracy.
I am grateful to all those who presented papers at the seminar and consented to the publication of the same. Appreciation is also due to the faculty and students of the Department of Political Science for making possible this valuable publication. I sincerely hope that this book will contribute towards a deeper understanding of this evolutionary phenomenon in Indian politics.
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- Indian DemocracyProblems and Prospects, pp. ix - xPublisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2009