At Home with Democracy

1. Introduction: A Political Theory of Indian Democracy
Peter Ronald deSouza

Part I. State, Nation, Democracy

2. Historicizing India’s Nationhood: History as Contemporary Politics
D. L. Sheth

3. State-Nation Building: The Making of Liberal Democracy
D. L. Sheth

4. Crisis of Political Authority
D. L. Sheth

Part II. Parapolitics of Democracy

5. Civil Society and Non-party Political Formations
D. L. Sheth

6. Transformative Politics of Grass-Roots Movements
D. L. Sheth

7. Law and the Outcasts of Development
D. L. Sheth

Part III. Social Power and Democracy

8. Secularization of Caste and the Making of a New Middle Class
D. L. Sheth

9. The Dalit Question in Four Frames
D. L. Sheth

10. The Great Language Debate: Politics of Metropolitan Versus Vernacular India
D. L. Sheth

Part IV. Representation in Liberal Democracy

11. Interests and Identities: The Changing Politics of Representation
D. L. Sheth

12. Minority Politics: The Shifting Terms of Policy Discourse
D. L. Sheth

13. Growth of Communal Polarization in Gujarat and the Making of a Hindutva Laboratory
D. L. Sheth

Part V. Emerging Challenges of Democracy

14. Revisiting the Reservations Policy
D. L. Sheth

15. Entering the Twenty-First Century: Changes in National Politics and Discourse
D. L. Sheth

16. Democratizing Global Governance: A Minimalist Perspective
D. L. Sheth

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Theory, Democracy, Comparative Politics