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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... agenda has been affected by the constraints of being a dominant member of a coalition government. Religious influence in contemporary politics offers a fertile ground for political-sociological analysis, especially in societies where ...
... agenda. This was significant because it was the first national coalition government in India to complete a full five-year term in office. It raised the question as to whether a new pattern in Indian governance was emerging. The ...
... Agenda' (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 ...
... agenda, and depend on Muslim votes, or covet that community's support such as the Telugu Desam Party (TDP). Therefore, these parties are not natural converts to the Hindu nationalist agenda. In addition, apart from the likelihood of ...
Katharine Adeney, Lawrence Saez. agenda. Therefore, have the policy differences between the alliance partners operated in the manner proposed by Tsebelis – restraining the BJP and leading to policy stability? The joint manifesto of 1999 ...
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 |