Democracy, Politics and Society in Contemporary India – Harihar Bhattacharyya

This edited volume with fifteen research essays offers a critical and interdisciplinary perspective on Indian democracy in terms of its interactions with society and politics. Against the conventional and often subconsciously biased understanding of Indian democracy, this volume aims to explain how democracy remains resilient in India, and its limited space active allowing citizens to ask questions, to protest, to gain things, and the choice to change regimes, including punishing politicians. Furthermore, the embedded problematics of Western modernity and methodology in understanding Indian democracy are also interrogated here. This collection should be of use to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as to researchers in political science, sociology, anthropology, modern Indian history, South Asian studies, as well as civil society intellectuals.