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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... NDA government MARIE LALL PART III External factors 9 10 11 12 13 The NDA and the politics of economic reform ROB JENKINS The NDA and Indian foreign policy JAMES CHIRIYANKANDATH AND ANDREW WYATT The NDA and national security APURBA ...
... (NDA) to govern for the whole of its elected term is one of the most remarkable contemporary events in the history of post-independence politics in India.1 The 1999 general election in India saw the formation of a multiparty governing ...
... (NDA 1999) (more often referred to as the 'National Agenda for Governance').3 In this book, the authors will show that the stability of the second NDA Government (1999–2004) reinforces some of the theoretical predictions about sustaining ...
... NDA) can be evaluated: • The BJP and coalition partners are both compatible on a given policy issue, so their agenda is the same. • The BJP is not fully satisfied with a given outcome (or non-outcome), but coalition partners force the ...
... NDA from outside. The formal members of the NDA included the BJP, Indian National Lok Dal Jammu and Kashmir National Conference, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Shiv Sena, Sikkim Democratic Front, Haryana Vikas Party ...
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 |