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The book presents debates around the concept of representation and how these ideas apply to representation for selected disadvantaged groups in India. It discusses empirical concerns and examines political representation of these disadvantaged groups in post-independence India. The experience of political representation of SCs, STs: the method of election, role of political parties in providing representation, role played by these groups in parliamentary institutions, and the extent of their participation. A second, significant area the volume attempts to cover is representation of the Muslim minority in parliament and state assemblies and understanding the reasons for their under-representation since independence, and more particularly in recent years.
Contents
Introduction:- I Politics of Representation: Historically Disadvantaged Groups in India's Democracy.- Chapter 1:- Beyond Representation.- Chapter 2:- Political Representation and Reservations for Inclusion of Minorities.- Chapter 3:- Paradoxes of Political Inclusion: Political Reservation for Scheduled Tribes in India.- II Political Representation in Institutions and Parties.- Chapter 4;- Ambedkar's Proposal to Safeguard Minorities against Communal Majority in Democracy.- Chapter 5:- Which Electoral System Ensures Real Representation.- Chapter 6:- Scheduled Caste Members of Parliament: Analyzing their Role in Influencing Policy Making.- III Political Representation of Religious Minorities.- Chapter 7:-Majoritarianism and the Political Representation of India's Muslims.- Chapter 8:- Representing Indian Muslims: Parliamentary Questions as Instrument of Evaluating Substantive Representation in Lok Sabha 1999-2016.- Chapter 9;- Shifting Terrain of Muslim Representation: New Political Experiments in Indian States in the 2000s.- IV. Political Representation of Women.- Chapter 10;- Legislative Presence and Substantive Representation: The Case of Women Legislators in India.- Chapter 11;- Democratic Institutions, Political Representation and Women's empowerment: The Quota Debate in India.- Chapter 12;- Does Representation Guarantee Recognition and Resources? Women in Indian Parliament.
