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Preface: Back to the Future!

Introduction: India's 1998 Election---Hindutva, the Tail Wags the Elephant, and Pokhran

Paul Wallace

Party Competition and Fragmentation in Indian National Elections: 1957--1998

Pradeep Chhibber

Irfan Nooruddin

Post-Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh: The Ethnification of the Party System and its Consequences

Kanchan Chandra

The 1998 General Election: The Janus-faced Policies of the BJP and Religious Mobilization at the District Level in Uttar Pradesh

Virginia Van Dyke

Split the Votes and Win the Election: An Analysis of the 12th Lok Sabha Election in Bihar

Binoy Shanker Prasad

The 12th Lok Sabha Election in Maharashtra: The Congress Alliance Defeats the BJP/Shiv Sena

Sikata Banerjee

The 12th General Election in Karnataka: The BJP Achieves its Southern Beachhead

Harold A. Gould

Regime Change and Shifting Social Bases: The Telugu Desam Party in the 12th General Election

Karli Srinivasulu

Orissa: The Fall of the Congress Fortress

Ramashray Roy

Conflicting Ambitions in Goa's Parliamentary Elections

Arthur G. Rubinoff

Punjab: Changing Political Agenda

Pramod Kumar

Elections in Kashmir: A Question of Pragmatism

Reeta Chowdhari-Tremblay

The BJP and Indian Democracy: Elections, Bombs, and Beyond

Pramod K. Kantha

About the Editors and Contributors

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