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The essays in the three-volume series, Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty-Year Perspective, 1956-2006, span over five decades of the Rudolphs' scholarship on politics in India. This work brings out the distinctiveness of Indian democratic experience through a contextual political analysis. The Realm of Institutions, the second of the three volumes, presents the Rudolphs' work on state formation and institutional change. By comparison with the Eurocentrism and essentialism of most work on state formation, these essays contrast state formation processes in Asia and India with those in the West. The authors address topics such as changing forms of representation, contestations over civil-military relations and sovereignty, transformations of the federal system and changes in the legitimacy and effectiveness of political institutions.

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Author:   Lloyd I. Rudolph (, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Chicago) ,  Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (, William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, University of Chicago)
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.414kg
ISBN:  

9780199453399

ISBN 10:   019945339
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   December 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; I. Modes of Inquiry Introduction; 1. Surveys in India: Field Experience in Madras State (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 2. Determinants and Varieties of Agrarian Mobilization (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 3. Engaging Subjective Knowledge: How Amar Singh's Diary Narratives of and by the Self Help Explain Identity Politics (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 4. Review of Pradeep Chhibber, Democracy Without Associations: Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India (Lloyd I. Rudolph); 5. Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, The Imperialism of Categories (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 6. Perestroika and Its Other (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 7. Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend (Lloyd I. Rudolph); II. Theorizing Politics and Society Introduction; 8. Consensus and Conflict in Indian Politics (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 9. Introduction in The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 10. Authority and Power in Bureaucratic and Patrimonial Administration: A Revisionist Interpretation of Weber on Bureaucracy (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 11. Conclusion in In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 12. The Media and Cultural Politics (Lloyd I. Rudolph); 13. Occidentalism and Orientalism: Perspectives on Legal Pluralism (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 14. Civil Society and the Realm of Freedom (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph); 15. Living with Difference in India: Legal Pluralism and Legal Universalism in Historical Context (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph); Index

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Lloyd I. Rudolph is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Chicago. He served as Chair of the University's Committee on International Relations. Susanne Hoeber Rudolph is William Benton Distinguished Service Professor Emerita, University of Chicago. She served as President of the American Political Science Association and of the Association for Asian Studies.

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