Syllabus/achievement requirements

Texts marked with * can be bought in a Kompendium at Akademika bookshop.

General Discussion:

Stuart Corbridge and John Harriss, Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 3-139 137 pp.

Christophe Jaffrelot, ed., A History of Pakistan and Its Origins (London: Anthem Press, 2002),

  • “Introduction”, pp. 1-6'
  • “Islamic Identity and Ethnic Tensions”, pp. 9-38
  • “A Fruitless Search for Democracy”, 61-94. 68 pp.

*Pamela Price, “Kingly Models in Indian Political Behavior: Culture as a Medium of History,” in Asian Survey, 1989, Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 559-572. 14 s.

*Myron Weiner, "The Struggle for Equality: Caste in Indian Politics", in Atul Kohli, ed., The Success of India's Democracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 193-225. 33 pp.

Case studies:

South India:

The construction of populist leadership

*Pamela Price, “Revolution and Rank in Tamil Nationalism”, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 55, No. 2, 1996, pp. 359-383. 35 s.

Narendra Subramanian, “The Efflorescence of Paternalist Populism: The ADMK”, in his Ethnicity and Populist Mobilization: Political Parties, Citizens and Democracy in South India (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 246-310. (At the Reception of IAKH you will find a copy which you may xerox.) 65 pp.

*Pamela Price, “Relating to Leadership in the Tamil Nationalism Movement: C.N. Annadurai in Person-Centred Propaganda”, South Asia, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1999, pp. 149-174. 26 s.

*Mukulika Banerjee, "Populist Leadership in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu: Mamata and Jayalalithaa Compared", in Roy Jenkins, ed., Regional Reflections: Comparing Politics Across India's States (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 285-296. 12 pp.

Managing coalitions of caste in Karnataka

*James Manor, "Karnataka: Caste, Class, Dominance and Politics in a Cohesive Society", in Francine Frankel and M.S. A. Rao, eds., Dominance and State Power in Modern India: Decline of a Social Order (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989), pp.322-361. 40 pp.

*James Manor, “Explaining Trajectories in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka”, in Jenkins, pp. 255-284. 30 pp.

*Harold A. Gould, “Political Self-Destruction in Karnataka, 1999”, in Paul Wallace and Ramashray Roy, India’s 1999 Elections and 20th Century Politics (New Delhi: sage Publications 2003), pp. 94-116. 23 pp.

*Pamela Price, “Ideological Elements in Political Instability in Karnataka: Janata Dal in the late 1990s”, manuscript. 13 pp.

Development versus Welfare in Andhra Pradesh

G. Ram, Reddy, “The Politics of Accommodation: Caste, Class and Dominance in Andhra Pradesh”, in Frankel and Rao, eds., pp. 265-321. (At the Reception of IAKH you will find a copy which you may xerox.) 57 pp

*Atul Kohli, “The NTR Phenomenon in Andhra Pradesh: Political Change in a South Indian State”, in Asian Survey, Vol. 28, No. 10, 1988, pp. 991-1017. 28 pp.

K.C. Suri and G.K. Prasad, “The Backdrop of the 1994 Assembly Elections in Andhra Pradesh”, in G.K. Prasad, D. Jeevan Kumar and K.C. Suri, eds., The Angry Voter: Assembly Elections in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka, 1994 (Madras: Shanti Publications, 1995), pp.15-41. . (At the Reception of IAKH you will find a copy which you may xerox.) 27 pp.

*K.C. Suri, “Democratic Process and Electoral Politics in Andhra Pradesh, India”, Working Paper 180 online, Overseas Development Institute, pp. 37-45. 9 pp

Loraine Kennedy, “The Political Determinants of Reform Packaging: Contrasting Responses to Economic Liberalization in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu”, in Jenkins, pp. 29-65. (At the Reception of IAKH you will find a copy which you may xerox.) 37 pp.

*Jos Mooij, “Smart Governance? Politics in the Policy Process in Andhra Pradesh, India”, Working Paper 228 online, Overseas Development Institute, pp. 10-20. 11 pp.

*S. Nagesh Kumar and W. Chandrakanth, “A Popular Backlash”, Frontline online, Vol. 21, Issue 11, May 22-June 4, 2004, 4 pp.

*V. Sridhar, “Neo-Liberalism Spurned”, Frontline online, Vol. 21, Issue 12, June 5-18, 2004, 5 pp.

*K. Balagopal, “Andhra Pradesh: Beyond Media Images”, Economic and Political Weekly online, June 12, 2004, 9 pp.

*E.A.S.Sarma, “Is Rural Economy Breaking Down? Farmers’ Suicides in Andhra Pradesh”, Economic and Political Weekly, July 10, 2004, 5 pp.

Pamela Price, “Changing Meanings of Authority in Contemporary Rural India”, in Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 29, pp. 301-316. 16 pp.

Pakistan:

*David Gilmartin, “A Magnificent Gift: Muslim Nationalism and the Election Process in Colonial Punjab”, COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN SOCIETY AND HISTORY, 1998, 0, No. (3), pp 415-436. 22 pp.

*David Gilmartin, “Biraderi and Bureaucracy: The Politics of Muslim Kinship Solidarity in Twentieth Century Punjab”, International Journal of Punjab Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1994, pp. 1-29. 29 pp.

*David Gilmartin, “Religious Leadership and the Pakistan Movement in the Punjab”, Modern Asian Studies, 1979, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 485-517. 33 s.

W. Bengal:

Arild Engelsen Ruud, Poetics of Village Politics, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 1-211. 211 s.

Total: 1010 pp

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