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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... The NDA and the politics of 'minorities' in India 77 SUBRATA K. MITRA 5 Hindu nationalists and federal structures in an era of regionalism 97 KATHARINE ADENEY 6 Social justice and empowerment of the weaker sections and Contents.
... federal design in Iraq and Afghanistan; national identities; democratisation in South Asia. She is author of Federalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in India and Pakistan (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming) as well as articles in ...
... Federal Democratic Party, Janata Party (JP). The parliamentary parties that supported the NDA alliance from the outside were the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the All India Trinamool Congress (the latter later joined the Government) ...
... federal system, government functions are divided between the national and state levels (Part XI of the Constitution). In practice, parliament has a very limited role in scrutinising government legislation and administration, and much of ...
... federal structure became more firmly entrenched. This has led to a greater degree of autonomy for state governments, although the system is still heavily centralised (see Austin 1999: Ch. 30). This has meant that state governments still ...
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 |