New Dimensions of Politics in India
Following Indias general election in May 2009, this book undertakes a critical evaluation of the performance of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA). It presents a thorough evaluation of the UPA coalition governments policies and, by providing an understanding of the new innovations, evaluates the effectiveness of these policies against their aims and objectives.
This book suggests that there is an analytical framework for assessing the political consequences of the policies and the UPAs success, both at the national and state levels, with particular reference to new developments in governance, secularism and security. These three areas constitute important fault lines between the main national political parties in India, and provide an interesting point of departure to explore the new emerging trends, as well as the strong underlying continuities between the UPA administration and its predecessors. The book offers fresh insights into the structure of Indian politics, and is a useful contribution to studies in South Asian Politics, governance and political parties.
Lawrence Sez is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Comparative and International Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK. He is also Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at SOAS and an Associate Fellow in the International Economics programme at Chatham House.
Gurharpal Singh is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Chair in Inter-Religious Relations and Development in the Department for the study of Religion at SOAS.
Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
Edited by Subrata K. Mitra
South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany
South Asia, with its burgeoning, ethnically diverse population, soaring economies, and nuclear weapons, is an increasingly important region in the global context. This series, which builds on this complex, dynamic and volatile area, features innovative and original research on the region as a whole or on the individual countries. Its scope extends to scholarly works drawing on the history, politics, development studies, sociology and economics of individual countries from the region, as well as those that take an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the area as a whole or draw a comparison between two or more countries from the region. In terms of theory and method, rather than basing itself on any one orthodoxy, the series draws broadly on the insights germane to area studies, as well as the toolkit of the social sciences in general, emphasizing comparison, the analysis of the structure and processes, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods. The series welcomes submissions from established authors in the field, as well as from young authors who have recently completed their doctoral dissertations.
1 Perception, Politics and Security in South Asia
The compound crisis of 1990
P. R. Chari, Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema and Stephen Philip Cohen
2 Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism
Edited by Katharine Adeney and Lawrence Sez
3 The Puzzle of Indias Governance
Culture, context and comparative theory
Subrata K. Mitra
4 Indias Nuclear Bomb and National Security
Karsten Frey
5 Starvation and Indias Democracy
Dan Banik
6 Parliamentary Control and Government Accountability in South Asia
A comparative analysis of Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka
Taiabur Rahman
7 Political Mobilisation and Democracy in India
States of emergency
Vernon Hewitt
8 Military Control in Pakistan
The parallel state
Mazhar Aziz
9 Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age
Giorgio Shani
10 The Tibetan Government-in-Exile
Politics at large
Stephanie Roemer
11 Trade Policy, Inequality and Performance in Indian Manufacturing
Kunal Sen
12 Democracy and Party Systems in Developing Countries
A comparative study clemens Spiess
13 War and Nationalism in South Asia
The Indian state and the Nagas
Marcus Franke
14 The Politics of Social Exclusion in India
Democracy at the crossroads
Edited by Harihar Bhattacharyya, Partha Sarka and Angshuman Kar
15 Party System Change in South India
Political entrepreneurs, patterns and processes
Andrew Wyatt
16 Dispossession and Resistance in India
The river and the rage
Alf Gunvald Nilsen
17 The Construction of History and Nationalism in India
Textbooks, controversies and politics
Sylvie Guichard
18 Political Survival in Pakistan
Beyond ideology
Anas Malik
19 New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies
The Bharatiya Janata party
Sebastian Schwecke
20 Sufism and Saint Veneration in Contemporary Bangladesh
The Maijbhandaris of Chittagong
Hans Harder
21 New Dimensions of Politics in India
The United Progressive Alliance in power
Lawrence Sez and Gurharpal Singh
22 Vision and Strategy in Indian Politics
Jawaharlal Nehrus policy choices and the designing of political institutions
Jivanta Schoettli
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New dimensions of politics in India : the United Progressive Alliance in power / edited by Lawrence Sez and Gurharpal Singh.
p. cm. -- (Routledge advances in South Asian studies ; 21)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. United Progressive Alliance (India) 2. Political parties--India.
3. India--Politics and government--21st century. I. Sez, Lawrence,
1965- II. Singh, Gurharpal. III. Series: Routledge advances in South
Asian studies ; 21.
JQ298.A1N48 2011 | 954.0532--dc22 |
2011012237
ISBN: 978-0-415-66897-2 (hbk)
