Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/23210230231203804
Sharmila Purkayastha
Amit Ahuja and Devesh Kapur (Eds), Internal Security in India: Violence, Order and the State. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023, 393 pp., ₹525.
Amit Ahuja和Devesh Kapur主编，《印度的内部安全:暴力、秩序和国家》。纽约:牛津大学出版社，2023,393页，525卢比。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/23210230231203795
Shreyas Sardesai
This article examines the relationship between media consumption and voting choices in India in the context of increasing exposure to media, both traditional and new. Using media exposure-related data from the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies’ (CSDS) national election surveys since 1996, it makes a few key assertions. Historically, there has been a positive relationship between traditional news media exposure and voting for the BJP, i.e., the greater the voters’ TV and newspaper consumption, the higher their support for the BJP. With respect to the Congress party, the tendency has generally been the opposite. This pattern now extends to social media exposure as well. However, this impact of media exposure on voting preferences that’s visible at the broad level weakens considerably when slicing the data further by socio-demographic factors. It has been found that the trend of the BJP’s vote share rising with increasing exposure to media is not consistent across the categories of age, education, and caste during many elections. If there is one election, however, that bucked this trend, it was the 2014 Lok Sabha election. The article argues that the BJP was successful in recognizing this and capitalized on it through an extensive media and communications campaign in 2014.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/23210230231203789
Rajdeep Pakanati
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/23210230231203794
Robert Mizo
Atul Mishra, The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan: Post-partition Statehood in South Asia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021, 300 pp., ₹1,495.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/23210230231204673
Sakshi Rai
Mayur R. Suresh, Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi Courts. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2023, 272 pages, ₹1,135.
Mayur R. Suresh，恐怖审判:德里法院的生活和法律。海德拉巴:东方黑天鹅，2023年，272页，1135卢比。
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{"title":"Book review: Vasanthi Srinivasan, Virtue and Human Ends: Political Ideas From Indian Classics","authors":"Priyanka Jha","doi":"10.1177/23210230231203872","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23210230231203872","url":null,"abstract":"Vasanthi Srinivasan, Virtue and Human Ends: Political Ideas From Indian Classics. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2021, 202 pages, ₹685.","PeriodicalId":42918,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Indian Politics","volume":" 69","pages":"349 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138614121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/23210230231203771
R. Ankit
This article is about the afterlife of Dewan Chaman Lall’s interwar internationalism. Exploring the trajectory of his public career from 1946, it shows how Lall, an Oxford-educated trade unionist, and an ally of India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, took a nationalist turn in his later political interventions on/after (a) Partition of British India, (b) the dispute on the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, and (c) on the government of India’s worsening border relations with the People’s Republic of China. Simultaneously, his understandings on issues like press freedom/official secrets, evacuee property exchange/sale, Sikh linguistic autonomy and labour/capital equation turned status quo-ist. By putting together his contributions on these national questions and juxtaposing them vis-à-vis his earlier avatar, this article also signifies the shift that took place in the perspectives of those who, like Lall, hitherto enveloped by empire, emerged in nation-statehood post-1945.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/23210230231203769
Koushiki Dasgupta
This article strives to explore the ways in which the politics of Hindutva, as represented by the Sangh Parivar, permeated new organizational and ideological spaces in Bengal following the Lok Sabha election of 2014. The article specifically delves into the case of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha, a significant Hindu spiritual and philanthropic entity in Bengal. The Bharat Sevashram Sangha and the Sangh-Parivar represent distinct but interconnected manifestations of the broader Hindutva ideology. With a focus on the Bharat Sevashram Sangha’s position on the configuration of Hindutva, this article revolves around deciphering the intricate interplay between religion and politics within the context of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha’s engagement with the Hindu right-wing organizations. Moreover, the article seeks to unveil how the Bharat Sevashram Sangha’s spiritual and cultural visions converged with a strategic political consciousness and potentially paved the way for the emergence of new opportunities for right-wing political forces within the state.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1177/23210230231203792
Suhas Palshikar, Jyoti Mishra
This article attempts to examine the combined impact of caste and class on voting choices. By using data from National Election Studies conducted by Lokniti from 1996 to 2019, the article seeks to situate the findings in the larger temporal frame of a quarter of a century. This allows us to also examine if changing patterns of party competition affect the impact of caste–class combined. The article argues that two patterns emerge: one is the consolidation of the more privileged social sections in terms of class and caste and the other is the dispersal of the less privileged. The latter, by virtue of their political dispersal, are unable to shape as a political force in both electoral politics and in agenda setting. This finding is partly an extension of the earlier findings that politics of backward castes hit a dead-end and politics of the poor never emerged as an all-India political alternative. Together with the earlier experience, the findings in this article throw light on the limits of democratization and on the prospects of politics of the less privileged sections across the country.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1177/23210230231166182
Dishil Shrimankar
In this short note, I wish to underline some of the issues relating to teaching Indian democracy in a comparative perspective. I will underline my own experiences of teaching Indian democracy to a largely Western audience in the United Kingdom. I have been employed, first as a teaching fellow, then as a postdoctoral research fellow and finally as a lecturer in several different British universities. The core substantive part of my teaching has been to teach courses on Indian democracy to undergraduate students. I have taught the Indian experience with democracy as part of a larger course on democratic development to firstand second-year undergraduate students. However, the bulk of my teaching on Indian democracy has been as a specialist third-year course on Indian democracy and Indian politics. In all the classes I have taught on Indian democracy, the main aim has been to understand how India’s experiences inform, and revises, major theories of comparative politics, be it democratic consolidation, economic development, or political violence. At the same time, I have attempted to debunk the picture of Indian citizens and its voters as non-strategic, irrational agents. Finally, in this note, I will also underline how Indian democracy and its politics are very good examples of teaching several research design elements. In this note, I will pick different examples from my own teaching of Indian democracy to underline how Indian politics and its democracy challenges some of the core theories in comparative politics. I will also highlight why India’s exceptionalism is not down to non-strategic, irrational voters and how all this helps drive through several important research design themes.
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