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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... societies where religion is a very important source of collective identity. In South Asian societies religion can, and often has, provided legitimacy to both governments and those who oppose them. This book examines the emergence of the ...
... Society and Governance Programme at the Institute for Development Studies. His research concentrates on state-society relations, mainly on South Asia. Recent work has focused on civil society and governance and democratic ...
... Society for South Asian Studies and the Political Studies Association for generously providing us with the funds that made the authors' workshop possible. The contributors to this volume benefited tremendously by the detailed comments ...
... societies a democratic system makes it likely that policy positions will harden among the relevant communities – and extremism and violence is more likely. In addition, even Donald Horowitz who focuses on institutional incentives to ...
... societies proceeds from the assumption that coalition governments are possible depending on the institutional arrangements for electing a government. That the specialists on this subject disagree as to the specific electoral mechanism ...
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 |