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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... issues in education policies and delivery mechanisms, gendered access and mobility and social relations within environmental and other people's movements. She is co-editor (with Ines Smyth) of Partnerships for Girls' Education (Oxfam ...
... issue of ideological cohesion is an important one in predicting the durability of the coalition. For instance, in his ... issues with non-nationalist members of the coalition. Rabushka and Shepsle (1972) argue that in ethnically divided ...
... issues but not on others. Certain issues were tradable, partly because the BJP was concerned to hold onto office, but others, on the surface, less ground breaking, were not. The example of the different outcomes between the first, short ...
... issues; and alternatives are viewed according to a perpetual frame common to all ethnic group members' (2003: 13). The great ethnic diversity of India and its multiple cross cutting cleavages (Manor 1996) specifically undermines the ...
... 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 issue. • The coalition partners are not fully satisfied with a given outcome (or non-outcome) ...
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 |