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Indian party politics, commonly viewed as chaotic, clientelistic, and corrupt, is nevertheless a model for deepening democracy and accommodating diversity. But if these perspectives are contradictory, they do have one thing in common: the perception of Indian politics as non-ideological in nature. In Ideology and Identity, Pradeep K. Chhibber and Rahul Verma argue that the Western European paradigm of what constitutes an ideology is not entirely applicable to many multiethnic countries in the twentieth century. In these more diverse states, the most important ideological debates center on statism-or the extent to which the state should dominate society, regulate social norms, redistribute private property, and accommodate the needs of various marginalized groups. Using survey data from the Indian National Election Studies (NES) and other studies along with evidence drawn from the Constituent Assembly debates, this book shows how education, the media, and religious practice transmit the competing ideas that lie at the heart of the ideological debates in India.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Tables and Graphs
Introduction: Ideology in India's Electoral Politics
Chapter 1. State Formation and Ideological Conflict in Multiethnic Countries
Chapter 2. Ideology, Identity, and the 2014 National Elections
Chapter 3. Intellectual Lineages of the Politics of Statism and Recognition
Chapter 4. Who Opposes Reservations and Why?
Chapter 5. The Myth of Vote Buying in India
Chapter 6. Transformational Leaders and Ideological Shifts
Chapter 7. Transmitting Ideology
Chapter 8. Statism, Recognition, and the Party System Change in India
Chapter 9. Ideological Challenges and the Decline of the Congress Party
Chapter 10. The BJP and an Ideological Consolidation of the Right?
Conclusion: Ideas, Leaders, and Party Systems
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
