Product Description: This paperback edition with a new Preface is specially designed and priced for the student market. The thirty-eight essays provide every significant topic in the study of Indian politics by eminent experts. They address the links between Indian politics and institutions of the state, ideologies, political processes, social movements, identity politics, government policy, international affairs, and the academia...read more

This is a collection of essays on India's public institutions covering the parliament, the presidency, the judiciary, the comptroller and auditor general, the police, the civil service and economic institutions.

Product Description: Positing the quest for self-respect as democracys deepest apsiration, this essay explores how inequality and the crisis of accountability have together impeded collective action to achieve such an end. To recover the sense of moral well being and responsibility, the author suggests, is the core of the democratic challenge before India...read more