Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics examines the immense changes that have occurred in Indian politics over the past decade and its impact on the Indian National Congress. The impact is most apparent in the changing fortunes of the Congress party, which suffered two major defeats in 2014 and 2019 elections, bringing the party's crisis to the front and centre of public debate. This book seeks to understand the reasons for these enormous changes by looking first at the underlying conditions that led to the decline of the Congress and, second, the challenges' both external and internal' confronting the Congress and, while doing so, estimating its impact on Indian politics and on the Congress. More specifically, it looks at how important ideological debates provoked by the rise of majoritarianism, the Gujarat model, hypernationalism, the secular retreat, and the curbs and restrictions on the opposition influenced Congress. Exploring ideological shifts and organizational 
limits that shaped the decline of the Congress makes a compelling case for the significance of the Congress story in understanding the larger political transformation underway in India. The argument centers on the Congress party, but comparatively speaking, it has relevance for the experience of centrist and centre-left parties in other countries, which too suffered a decline in the context of the upsurge of populist nationalism and right-wing politics in the past few years. Analysis of political change in India in the past decade affords insights into the processes of transformation and polarization that grounded the Congress party and centrist parties in other countries as well.

Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics: Growing Polarization and the Decline of the Congress Party (2009-19)

History

Hasan, Zoya

Asia

Oxford University Press

Setting the analysis in a broader trajectory of change in Indian society and politics, this book explores the growth of the oppositional politics of farmers, other Backward Classes and Hindulva in Utta Pradesh and its majoritarian reformulation that contributed to the decimation of the Congress Party in the 1980s.

Quest for Power: Oppositional Movements and Post-Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh

Setting the analysis in a broader trajectory of change in Indian society and politics, this book explores the growth of the oppositional politics of farmers, Other Backward Classes and Hindutva in Utta Pradesh and its majoritarian reformulation that contributed to the decimation of the Congress Party in the 1980s. It also delineates the strategies and tactics of mobilization employed by leading political parties and organizations to accomplish this radical change.

Quest for Power

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

OUP India

Unequal Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women in India

This volume explores certain key issues in the lives of Muslim women in India. It is based on comprehensive survey research and fieldwork, the first of its kind done on Muslim women in India. It analyzes the contemporary state of education, employment opportunity, and marriage and other key indicators of development that map qualitative change in the lives of women.

Menon, Ritu

Presenting a collection of articles on the politics and party system in India, this book examines the Congress system, the national parties, as well as the regional parties. Discussed in terms of their connection with caste, class, and communal and regional politics, these parties are also analyzed by their impact on the changing nature of Indian politics.

Parties & Party Politics In India (Oip) (Themes in Politics)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

The Indian National Congress (INC) has played a pivotal role in nation building in India's political history. Congress after Indira provides an interpretation of contemporary Congress politics and the challenges it has faced due to the political and economic change, both nationally and globally. The book provides an insight into the structure and direction of change within the INC, and the governance agenda essentially with respect to economy, society, polity, and leadership-after Indira Gandhi. The volume talks about the Ayodhya issue, the phase of economic liberalization, and the comeback of the Congress as a ruling party in 2004, as a coalition government for the first time. It also discusses the dualist structure of leadership and how this has shaped the perception of the masses regarding the party.

Congress after Indira: Policy, Power, Political Change (1984-2009)

Legal Theory & Systems

In the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination, the Congress party swept the polls in 1984. It reached its zenith with Rajiv Gandhi at the helm. However, due to shifts in Indian polity, economy, and society, this period marked the end of the Congress epoch. It was only a couple of decades later that the Congress was able to emerge as a dominant party again. How did the new Indian political landscape shape the development and the comeback of the Congress in the 2004 parliamentary elections in a coalition? What was the role of contemporary Congress politics, its policy, its organization, and leadership in the face of these challenges? Congress after Indira seeks answers to these questions. This richly researched and nuanced study of the Congress party advances our understanding and perceptions of political structures, processes, and Indian politics.

Congress After Indira: Policy, Power, Political Change (1984-2009) (Oxford India Paperbacks)

The book examines (1) the relationship between political mobilization and the making of policy/ to grant socio-economic rights (2) the creation of institutions and (3) representation in public institutions i.e. legislatures. It investigates the relationship of political mobilization, partystrategies and policy change to understand how campaigns and agitations organized by actors outside traditional electoral networks interact with established political actors to influence the making of social policy and legislations in India in the broader frame of democratic politics.The central question is in what circumstances is social and political mobilization to claim rights and entitlements or the demand for accountability or greater representation in legislatures responded to and addressed to by the state. This is done through an analusis of three empirical cases: (1)Right to employment and Right to food; (2) The anti-corruption or Lokpal or movement, (3) Legislative reservations for women. All but one resulted in legislation. These three cases cover recurring themes in the sphere of political mobilization and the claims they make for redistribution,accountability and representation.By focusing on political actors and processes that shape various legislations to expand rights, accountability and representation, the book argues that it is principally the political context, party processes and leadership strategies that influenced policy decisions of the government. Takentogether, the arguments advanced here underlines the social and political implications of situations where both state and mobilization campaigns are the agents and loci of dominance, resistance, and critique. Outcomes are contingent on political responses and party strategies which are an importantelement of the underlying dynamics, and not merely the scale and intensity of public protest and collective action.

Agitation to Legislation: Negotiating Equity and Justice in India

Social Sciences

Forging Identities: Gender, Communities, And The State In India

Routledge

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Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics: Growing Polarization and the Decline of the Congress Party (2009-19)

Quest for Power: Oppositional Movements and Post-Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh

Quest for Power

Unequal Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women in India

Parties & Party Politics In India (Oip) (Themes in Politics)

Congress after Indira: Policy, Power, Political Change (1984-2009)

Congress After Indira: Policy, Power, Political Change (1984-2009) (Oxford India Paperbacks)

Agitation to Legislation: Negotiating Equity and Justice in India

Forging Identities: Gender, Communities, And The State In India

Forging Identities: Gender, Communities, And The State In India