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Democracy and the State in India: Interdisciplinary Investigations
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This book brings together scholars practising Political Science, International Relations, Sociology, Economics, History, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Gender Studies to rethink the changing relationship between democracy and the State in India. Moving beyond the familiar emphasis on formal institutions and psephological speculation, the volume turns to the socio-economic, cultural, gendered, everyday and global dimensions through which democratic politics is produced and contested. The chapters traverse strikingly varied terrain: the gap between “the people” and the electoral majority, Jayaprakash Narayan’s near-forgotten critique of the centralised state, secularism as democracy’s companion concept, the appropriation of “ordinary citizenship” in India’s privatised townships, vote-buying in village councils, the politics of social action, deliberative democracy and free speech, the erosion of academic freedom, caste and patriarchy in Hindi cinema, the masculinist logic of the security State, the unfinished struggle for LGBTIQ rights, and India’s ambivalent quest for a democratic world order. This eclectic collection of essays seeks to equip readers with the conceptual tools needed to map the nuances of and new possibilities for democratic politics in India.
Mangesh Kulkarni is a senior scholar with four decades of academic experience at universities in India, Africa and Europe. He served as Professor and Head, Department of Political Science at Savitribai Phule Pune University. He has published five books and numerous articles in national as well as international journals. His interdisciplinary research interests span political theory and thought, critical masculinity studies, and intellectual history.
Akshay Chaudhari holds a doctoral degree in Political Science from Savitribai Phule Pune University. His research focuses on structural injustice, drawing particularly on the work of Iris Marion Young and comparative political theory. He has taught political theory and public policy at the University of Mumbai and Nowrosjee Wadia College, Pune, and has published in academic journals.
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