Indian Politics in Comparative Perspective

Pravin Kumar Jha, "Indian Politics in Comparative Perspective"
English | 2012 | pages: 312 | ISBN: 8131771687 | PDF | 17,8 mb
Description In dian Politics in a Comparative Perspective is intended as a standard textbook for undergraduate studentsof political science. The book provides a handy reference tool toits readers by elucidating conceptual areas, furnishing establishedarguments and citing contemporary research works for acomprehensive knowledge of the subject. Carefully organized in tenwell-researched chapters and examined from different vantagepoints, they weave a compelling story on the nature of Indianpolitics since the pre-Independence era to the making of ourConstitution and gradually navigate to examine the impact of thegrowing role of religion and power structure in our politicalsystem. Indian Politics in a Comparative Perspective is an idealread for anyone who is curious to understand the changing grammarof Indian politics. * Marginal notes, index and tables in the chapters of thebook will aid comprehension * Fresh study is given in table format for every topic * Summary after every chapter for the purpose ofreinforcement 1. Approaches to the Study of Indian Politics and nature of theState in India: Liberal, Marxist and Gandhian. – Simple Mohanty 2. National Movement and its Ideological discourse and politicallegacies. – Ranjeet Kumar, Jeetendra Kumar and Santesh KumarSingh 3. Indian Constitution: Provisions and InstitutionalFunctioning. – Priyanka Goyal 4. Power structure in India: Institutional and Social(Caste-Dalit-Bahujan, Class, Patriarchy). – Priyanka Goyal andSangeeta Mishra 5. Federalism in India in Comparative perspective with specialreference to Canada. – Krishna Kumar Krishna 6. Party system in India in comparison with that in U.K. -Sangeeta Mishra 7. Human Rights in India: Rights in the Indian Constitution andSocial Practices. Comparative Study with special reference toexperience in China. – Rakesh Thakur and Ishleen Kaur 8.