Parties and Party Politics in India
- New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002.
- 566 p.
- Themes in Politics .
1. The Congress "System" in India / Rajni Kothari 2. Social cleavages, elections, and the Indian party system / Pradeep K. Chibber, John R. Petrocik 3. Mrs. Gandhi's pyramid : the new Congress / Stanley A. Kochanek 4. The United colours of Congress : social profile of Congress voters, 1996 and 1998 / Anthony Heath, Yogendra Yadav 5. The leadership and organization of the Jana Sangh, 1951 to 1967 / B.D. Graham 6. A specific party-building strategy : The Jana Sangha and the RSS network / Christophe Jaffrelot 7. Anatomy of BJP's rise to power : social, regional, and political expansion in 1990s / Oliver Heath 8. The rebirth of the Shiv Sena : the symbiosis of discursive and organizational power / Mary Faisnod Katezenstein, Uday Singh Mehta, Usha Thakkar 9. Communist politics in search of hegemony / Javed Alam 10. Parliamentary communism as a historical phenomenon : the CPI(M) in West Bengal / Amrita Basu. 11. The Janata phase : reorganization and redirection in Indian politics / Jyotirindra Das Gupta 12. Representation and redistribution : the new lower caste politics of North India / Zoya Hasan 13. Bringing society back in : ethnicity, populism, and pluralism in South India 14. Parties and the party system / James Manor 15. The fragmentation of the Indian party system, 1952-1999 / E. Sridharan 16. The political parties and the party system : the emergence of new coalitions / Balveer Arora