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The algebra of warfare-welfare: a long view of India’s 2014 election

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford University Press 2019 New DelhiDescription: xxiv, 385p. With indexISBN:
  • 9780199489626
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 324.954 A5
Summary: This volume explores how the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won the 2014 Parliamentary elections with such an unprecedented majority, and what that victory means for politics in general and Indian politics in particular. It opens up space for new theoretical and methodological reflections on electoral democracy, critically taking on such salient issues as development, terrorism, charisma, media, new mechanisms of mobilization, nationalism, rumour, religion, regionalism, polarisation, space, Muslim vote, and caste. This volume is distinct in its ability to focus squarely on the empirical acts of voting. It sociologically and historically examines the enduring as well as changing institutional, social, political, and cultural landscapes in which voting takes place. Unlike most other studies on elections in India, this book puts human subjectivity at the centre of election studies. The anthropological-sociological perspective the volume places before readers draws on political-social theory whereby the volume also examine the larger and changing contours of modernity, democracy and elections being its key faces. As such the volume situates the 2014 elections in relation to changing nature and forms of elections and democracy globally, in particular in conversation with those in the democratic nation-states in the West. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-algebra-of-warfare-welfare-9780199489626?cc=us&lang=en&#
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Table of Contents

Democracy and the Algebra of Warfare-Welfare
Irfan Ahmad
1. Democracy as Rumor: Media, Religion, and the 2014 Indian Elections
Irfan Ahmad
2. Modi and the Spectre of Terrorism: Crafting the Hindutva Icon
Manisha Sethi
3. Gurus and the Hindu Nationalist Politics: The Baba Ramdev-BJP Partnership in the 2014 Elections
Pralay Kanungo
4. Gujarat Model and the Right-Wing Shift in 2014
Zoya Hasan
5. Communal Violence, Electoral Polarization, and Muslim Representation: Muzaffarnagar 2013-2014
Hilal Ahmed
6. Does Space Matter in Electoral Democracy? Analyzing the Mother Ganges' Call to the BJP's Prime Ministerial Candidate
Bikramaditya K. Choudhary
7. Caste and Cultural Icons: BJP's Politics of Appropriation in Tamil Nadu
R. Thirunavukkarasu
8. Hindutva's Reach Out to Muslims in 2014 Elections: A Historical Analysis
Mohammad Reyaz
9. Media, Corporates, and Democracy: Lessons from the 2014 General Elections
Sudhir Pattnaik
10. On The Ground: The Unfolding of the 2014 General Election Campaign
Patrick French
11. Unity in Diversity: Democracy and Manifestos in the 2014 Indian Elections
Irfan Ahmad
12. On Studying Elections and Democracy: A Conversation with T. K. Oommen
R. Thirunavukkarasu

This volume explores how the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won the 2014 Parliamentary elections with such an unprecedented majority, and what that victory means for politics in general and Indian politics in particular. It opens up space for new theoretical and methodological reflections on electoral democracy, critically taking on such salient issues as development, terrorism, charisma, media, new mechanisms of mobilization, nationalism, rumour, religion, regionalism, polarisation, space, Muslim vote, and caste. This volume is distinct in its ability to focus squarely on the empirical acts of voting. It sociologically and historically examines the enduring as well as changing institutional, social, political, and cultural landscapes in which voting takes place. Unlike most other studies on elections in India, this book puts human subjectivity at the centre of election studies. The anthropological-sociological perspective the volume places before readers draws on political-social theory whereby the volume also examine the larger and changing contours of modernity, democracy and elections being its key faces. As such the volume situates the 2014 elections in relation to changing nature and forms of elections and democracy globally, in particular in conversation with those in the democratic nation-states in the West.

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