Violence and Democracy: The Collapse of One-Party Dominant Rule in India

Author:   Kazuya Nakamizo
Publisher:   Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press
ISBN:  

9781920901387


Pages:   428
Publication Date:   30 March 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Violence and Democracy: The Collapse of One-Party Dominant Rule in India


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The Bhagalpur riots occurred in the Indian state of Bihar during the 1989 Lok Sabha election campaign. In the lead-up, political actors and parties exploited religious identities for their own electoral purposes. In this book, Nakamizo systematically and comprehensively analyses the course of the significant political change that forms the background to these and other outbreaks of violence, from the collapse of Congress's rule to the rise of identity-based political parties. The political change is explained via a multi-layered analysis of the connection between centre, state and rural village levels in the context of the interaction between caste and religious identities.The riots, especially the counter-riot response, are used as a key explanatory variable throughout. Nakamizo's book offers an insightful and highly relevant perspective on the political background to the communal violence that has been a feature of democratic India and continues to this day.

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Author:   Kazuya Nakamizo
Publisher:   Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press
Imprint:   Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781920901387


ISBN 10:   1920901388
Pages:   428
Publication Date:   30 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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The 24th Asia-Pacific Award - Special Award Winner (2012) The 3rd Award of Area Studies Consortium - Best Research Work Award (2013)


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Nakamizo Kazuya is Professor at the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University. He specializes in contemporary Indian politics, South Asian area studies, political science, and international political science. He was born in Fukuoka Prefecture and received his Doctor of Law from the University of Tokyo. His research topic explores the possibilities for democracy in solving poverty and violence. He has been working on Indian politics, largely within a theoretical framework, especially focusing on the state of Bihar in India known for widespread poverty and violence.

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