Politics in India/ edited by Sudipta Kaviraj - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008. - ix, 404 p. ; 23 cm. - (Oxford in India readings in sociology and social anthropology) .

Power and territory / Louis Dumont --
Caste and modern politics / Rajni Kothari --
Caste and political group formation in Tamilnad / André Béteille --
The nation and its outcasts / Partha Chatterjee --
On the diversity of ruling traditions / Satish Saberwal --
On the construction of colonial power: structure, discourse, hegemony / Sudipta Kaviraj --
The study of state and society in India / Nicholas Dirks --
Regime types and economic performance / Lloyd I. Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph. Pursuing equality: an assessment of India's policy of compensatory discrimination for disadvantaged groups / Marc Galanter --
The politicization of the peasantry in a north Indian state / Paul R. Brass --
Ethnicity and politics / Dipankar Gupta --
Minority identities / Myron Weiner --
Karnataka: caste, class, dominance and politics in a cohesive society / James Manor --
Jana Sangh and social interests / Bruce Graham --
Communalism as false consciousness / Bipan Chandra --
Communalism as construction / Gyanendra Pandey. Sikh fundamentalism / Harjot Oberoi --
A critique of modernist secularism / Ashis Nandy --
Secularism in its place / T.N. Madan --
Two concepts of secularism / Akeel Bilgrami --
Decline of a social order / Francine R. Frankel --
Crisis of governability / Atul Kohli.

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