Bharat Mein Rajnitik Prakriya (Pb)

This textbook has been designed to suit the requirements of the paper titled Political Process in India. This paper is being offered in undergraduate honours courses of political science under the CBCS curriculum followed across all universities in India. This volume familiarises students with the working of the Indian state. In doing so, it discusses the functioning of important institutions such as the Election Commission, and how they have transformed over the years. The book will help students understand the political processes of independent India, and the various challenges thrown at it by communalism and the politics of secession, to name a few. It also charts the changing nature of the Indian statefrom a developmental to a coercive state. The book covers the discussion on: Political Process in Contemporary India: Issues and Challenges; Political Parties and Party System; Election Commission and Electoral Reforms; Determinants of Voting Behaviour in India: Class, Caste, Gender and Religion; Regional Aspirations: The Politics of Secession and Accommodation; Religion and Politics : Minority and Majority Communalism; Secularism in India: Theory and Practice; Caste, Class and Patriarchy; Caste and Politics in India; Policies of Affirmative Action : Caste, Class and Women; Indian Democratic Developmental State and Welfare Regimes and Coercive Dimension of India State. The volume has pedagogical features such as: Bibliography Index Glossary Keywords Endnotes