Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty Year Perspective, 1956-2006
Volume I: The Realm of Ideas: Inquiry and Theory
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 14 February 2008
- ISBN 9780195693645
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages340 pages
- Size 242x158x23 mm
- Weight 653 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
These essays reflect the works of the authors over a period of 50 years since their first visit to India in 1956. They re-emphasize the importance of area studies challenging American parochialism in the social sciences. They challenge the use of statistics to identify universal patterns that underlie economic and political systems. 9/11 reinforced the authors' methods and modes of inquiry. It challenged America's parochialism. It reminded America that it was a part
of a diverse world and that they did not have the means to grasp its complexities.
Long description:
This volume is the first of the three volumes that collect the Rudolphs' life works over a period of fifty years since their first visit to India in 1956. Volume I comprises two parts: Modes of Inquiry and Theorizing Politics and Society. The seven essays in the first section, Modes of Inquiry, reflect the changing methods of inquiry the authors have used over a period of time. The eight essays in the second section, Theorizing Politics and Society, were written over
a period of 40 years, from 1961 to 2001. They explore the relationship between theory and empirical research in political science by focusing on areas like political culture, social change, and social structure.
This three volume compendium brings together a cross-section of selections from the works published by Lloyd and Susaane Rudolph over a period of approximately fifty years. Consistently reiterating the limits of universal categories as encoutnered through their research, the repository of scholarship produced individually and together by this most erudite duo, who must surely count amongst the most self-reflexive western scholars writing on Indian politics today, would be hard to
surpass.
Table of Contents:
Preface;
Acknowledgements;
I. Modes of Inquiry
Introduction
1. Surveys in India: Field Experience in Madras State (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph);
2. Determinants and Varieties of Agrarian Mobilization (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph);
3. Engaging Subjective Knowledge: How Amar Singhs Diary Narratives of and by the Self Help Explain Identity Politics (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph);
4. Review of Pradeep Chhibber, Democracy Without Associations: Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India (Lloyd I. Rudolph);
5. Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, The Imperialism of Categories (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph);
6. Perestroika and Its Other (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph);
7. Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend (Lloyd I. Rudolph);
II. Theorizing Politics and Society
Introduction
8. Consensus and Conflict in Indian Politics (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph);
9. Introduction in The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph);
10. Authority and Power in Bureaucratic and Patrimonial Administration: A Revisionist Interpretation of Weber on Bureaucracy (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph);
11. Conclusion in In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph);
12. The Media and Cultural Politics (Lloyd I. Rudolph);
13. Occidentalism and Orientalism: Perspectives on Legal Pluralism (Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph);
14. Civil Society and the Realm of Freedom (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph);
15. Living with Difference in India: Legal Pluralism and Legal Universalism in Historical Context (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph);
Index
