Coalition Politics and Hindu NationalismKatharine Adeney, Lawrence Saez This new collection examines the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India and the ways in which its Hindu nationalist agenda has been affected by the constraints of being a dominant member of a coalition government. |
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... Politics. James Chiriyankandath is a Principal Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at London Metropolitan ... Indian politics and Indian economic problems; socialism and the Labour Party; Chinese economic reform, Marxian ...
... Indian politics and political economy, including work on federalism, electoral politics, Hindu nationalism and social movements. He is the author of Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and ...
... Politics at the University of Bristol. His research has examined the process of change in the societal, institutional and external dimensions of Indian politics. He is the co-editor (with John Zavos) of Decentring the Indian Nation ...
... politics in India.1 The 1999 general election in India saw the formation of a multiparty governing coalition led by a political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), espousing a Hindu nationalist agenda. This was significant because ...
... politics literature and the Indian experience Within the literature on comparative politics, 'vote pooling' (Horowitz 1991) is understood as a pre-election alliance where political parties agree to cooperate in securing votes by not ...
Contents
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2 The shapes of Hindu nationalism | 36 |
3 In part a myth | 55 |
Part II Domestic governance | 75 |
4 The NDA and the politics of minorities in India | 77 |
5 Hindu nationalists and federal structures in an era of regionalism | 97 |
6 Social justice and empowerment of the weaker sections and gender rights | 116 |
Part III External factors | 171 |
9 The NDA and the politics of economic reform | 173 |
10 The NDA and Indian foreign policy | 193 |
11 The NDA and national security | 212 |
12 The BJP and the 2004 general election | 237 |
13 Hindutvas march halted? Choices for the BJP after the 2004 defeat | 254 |
Bibliography | 264 |
Index | 289 |
7 Managing the anticorruption rhetoric | 136 |
8 Indian education policy under the NDA government | 153 |