Collection on Indian democracy are plentiful. Yet rarely do they question the impact of the ongoing democratic mobilizations on the mundane, everyday lives of ordinary citizens and the world they see around them. Borrowing insights from new research in cultural studies, contemporary literary theory, visual politics, biopolitics, meteorology, to cite a few, state of Democracy in India covers the ground case aside by existing narratives and analyses of Indian democracy. Pivoted on the experiences of the people and not necessarily the institutions of governance, this collection examines a vast array of markers of democracy under the rubrics of populism, disaster migration, caste contestations, new developments in feminism, and the act of culture.

ISBN 13: 9789391144999

ISBN 10: 9391144993

Year: 2021

Language: ENGLISH

Pages etc.: xii+682p., (21)b/w illus., (1)map, bib., ind., 25cm.

Binding: Hardbound

Subject(s): Politics