The State, Political Process, and Identity
Reflections on Modern India
1st Edition
Published on 20. April 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-8039-9578-9 (ISBN)
Description
The State, Political Processs and Identity examines the nature of the Indian State and the serious challenges it faces from the demands of national, class, communal and caste identities. Essays in this volume focus attention on State power and on the ways in which State intervention has affected the relationship between modern institutions and caste-community identities. The crucial issue of social determinants of mass consciousness and national identity is stressed.@Q@6
Reviews / Votes
`...the contributions taken together make the volume thought-provoking with the customary elan of SAGE Publications eminently maintained - Business Standard`It is a book well worth using as a stepping stone towards understanding and evaluating contemporary analytical trends relating to political phenomena.' - Contributions to Indian Sociology
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
407 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8039-9578-9 (9780803995789)
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Persons
Zoya Hasan is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is the author and editor of eleven books and has published over two dozen articles. Her recent books include Quest for Power: Oppositional Movements and Post-Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh; Unequal Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women In India(co-authored); Party Politics in India (edited), India's Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices and Controversies (co-edited); Transforming India: Social Dynamics of Democracy (coedited); and In a Minority: Essays on Muslim Women in India (co-edited). She has also edited the third book in our 'Readings in Indian Government and Politics' series, Politics and the State in India (Sage, 2000).
Content
Introduction - Zoya Hasan
State and Identity in Modern India
PART ONE: THE STATE IN INDIA
The Total State - Rasheeduddin Khan
The Concept and Its Manifestation in the Indian Political System
The Indian State - C P Bhambhri
Conflicts and Contradictions
Understanding the Indian State - K Raghavendra Rao
A Historical-Materialist Exercise
Class Struggles and the State in India - Sanjeeb Mukherjee
Classification of Contemporary Governments - Syed Hasan Ahmed
The Indian Case
PART TWO: POLITICAL PROCESSES
Towards the Concept of a Post-Colonial Democracy - Aswini K Ray
A Schematic View
The Emergency - Max Jean Zins
1975-77
Bureaucracy and Politics in India - Mohit Bhattacharya
Centralist and Regionalist Parties in India's Federal Polity - Balveer Arora
The Crumbling Political Process - Nawaz B Mody
An Alternative
PART THREE: IDENTITY: CLASS, CASTE AND NATION
Dynamic View of Identity Formation - S N Jha
An Agenda for Research
Political Articulation of Mass Consciousness in Present-day India - Javeed Alam
Class and Caste - Zoya Hasan
The Dynamics of Political Change in Uttar Pradesh
'State, Communism' and the Reassertion of Muslim Identity - Mohammad Aslam
The Ideology and Politics of India's National Identity - Ashish Banerjee
Ethnicity, Regionalism and the Problem of National Identity in India - S K Chaube
State and Identity in Modern India
PART ONE: THE STATE IN INDIA
The Total State - Rasheeduddin Khan
The Concept and Its Manifestation in the Indian Political System
The Indian State - C P Bhambhri
Conflicts and Contradictions
Understanding the Indian State - K Raghavendra Rao
A Historical-Materialist Exercise
Class Struggles and the State in India - Sanjeeb Mukherjee
Classification of Contemporary Governments - Syed Hasan Ahmed
The Indian Case
PART TWO: POLITICAL PROCESSES
Towards the Concept of a Post-Colonial Democracy - Aswini K Ray
A Schematic View
The Emergency - Max Jean Zins
1975-77
Bureaucracy and Politics in India - Mohit Bhattacharya
Centralist and Regionalist Parties in India's Federal Polity - Balveer Arora
The Crumbling Political Process - Nawaz B Mody
An Alternative
PART THREE: IDENTITY: CLASS, CASTE AND NATION
Dynamic View of Identity Formation - S N Jha
An Agenda for Research
Political Articulation of Mass Consciousness in Present-day India - Javeed Alam
Class and Caste - Zoya Hasan
The Dynamics of Political Change in Uttar Pradesh
'State, Communism' and the Reassertion of Muslim Identity - Mohammad Aslam
The Ideology and Politics of India's National Identity - Ashish Banerjee
Ethnicity, Regionalism and the Problem of National Identity in India - S K Chaube