Pensum/læringskrav

Det anbefales å skaffe bøkene Ruud, Mageli og Price (2017): Indias Historie med Pakistan og Bangladesh og Ruud, Heirstad og Flåten (2016): Indiske utfordringer  før undervisningen begynner. Øvrig pensum vil bli gjort tilgjengelig ved semesterstart.

I øvrigt anbefales følgende bok som generell baggrunnslesning: Ruud, A.E. og G. Heierstad,red: 2010, Demokrati på indisk 

Pensum SAS 2504 – Politisk kultur i India, våren 2018

1. Frigjøringskampen og selvstændighed

Ruud, Mageli og Price (2011). Kapitel 8 i Indias historie, med Pakistan og Bangladesh, side 262-311 (49 sider)

Chandra et al.(1989). ‘Introduction’, i India’s Struggle for independence, side 13-30 (18 sider).

Ruud, Heierstad og Flåten (2016). Kapitel 3 (‘Sarkar’) i Indiske Utfordringer, side 55-73 (18 sider)

Total 85 sider

2. Fasene i indisk politikk

Ruud, Mageli og Price (2011). Kapitel 9 i Indias historie, med Pakistan og Bangladesh, side 312-370. (58 sider)

Kothari (1964). ‘The Congress “System” in India. Asian Survey 4(12), side 1161-1173. (12 sider)

Yadav (2000). ‘Understanding the Second Democratic Upsurge: Trends of Bahujan Participation in Electoral Politics in the 1990s’, i Transforming India: Social and Political Dynamics of Democracy, redigert av Frankel, Hasan, Bhargava og Arora, side 120-45. (25 sider)

Jayal (2016). ‘Contending representative claims in Indian democracy’. India Review 15(2), side 172-195. (23 sider)

Totalt 118 sider

3. Politisk teori og indisk demokrati

Pedersen (2011). ‘Why did India Become a Democracy and Why did it Remain Democratic? A Survey of the Literature and Some Comments to the Scholarly Debate’, i Trysts with Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia, redigert av Madsen, Nielsen og Skoda, side 19-43. (24 sider)

Kaviraj (1991). ‘On State, Society and Discourse in India’, i Rethinking Third World Politics, redigert av Manor, side 72-99. (27 sider)

Varshney (2013). Kapitel 1 i Battles Half Won: India’s Improbable Democracy. (35 sider)

Heller (2000). ‘Degrees of Democracy: Some Comparative Lessons from India’. World Politics 52, side 484-519. (35 sider)

Totalt 121 sider

4. Politisk lederskap og autoritet

Dickey (1993). ‘The Politics of Adulation: Cinema and the Production of Politicians in South India’. Journal of Asian Studies 52(2), sider 340-372. (32 sider)

Nielsen (2016). ‘Mamata Banerjee: Redefining Female Leadership’ i India’s Democracies: Diversity, Co-optation, Resistance, redigert av Ruud og Heierstad, side 101-34. (33 sider)

Ruud og Islam (2016). ‘Political Dynasty Formation in Bangladesh’. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 39(2), side 401-414. (13 sider)

Price (1989). ‘Kingly Models in Indian Political Behavior: Culture as a Medium of History’. Asian Survey 29(6), side 559-572. (13 sider).

Forbess og Michelutti (2013). ‘From the mouth of God: divine kinship and popular democratic politics’. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 67, side 3-18. (15 sider)

Manor (2000). ‘Small-Time Political Fixers in India’s States: “Towel over Armpit”’. Asian Survey 40(5), side 816-35. (19 sider)

Bernstein og Sharma (2016). ‘The Righteous and the Rightful’. American Ethnologist 43(1), side 76-90. (14 sider)

Totalt 139 sider

5. Kaste

Weiner (2001). ‘The Struggle for Equality: Caste in Indian Politics’, i The Success of India’s Democracy, redigert av Kohli, side 193-225. (32 sider)

Jaffrelot (2000). ‘The rise of the other backward classes in the Hindi belt’. Journal of Asian Studies 59(1), side 86-108. (22 sider)

Jaffrelot (2010). ‘Sanskritization vs ethnicization in India: Changing Identities and Caste Politics Before Mandal’, i Religion, Caste and Politics in India, side 449-458. (9 sider)

Rudolph og Rudolph (1960). ‘The Political Role of India’s Caste Associations’. Pacific Affairs 33(1), side 5-22. (17 sider)

Ciotti (2012). ‘Resurrecting Seva (Social Service): Dalit and Low-caste Women Party Activists as Producers and Consumers of Political Culture and Practice in Urban North India. Journal of Asian Studies 71(1), side 149–170. (21 sider).

Waghmore (2013). ‘The Imagined “Bahujan”: Caste and Cultural Repertoires of BSP’, i Civility against Caste: Dalit Politics and citizenship in Western India’, side 116-143. (27 sider)

Gorringe (2006). ‘”You build your house, we'll build ours”: The Attractions and Pitfalls of Dalit Identity Politics’. Social Identities 11(6), side 653-672. (19 sider)

Totalt 147 sider

6. Hindunasjonalisme

Flåten (2010). ‘BJPs hinduidentitet’, i Demokrati på indisk, redigert av Ruud og Heierstad, side 35-62. (27 sider)

Kovacs (2004). ‘You Don’t Understand, We are at War! Refashioning Durga in the Service of Hindu Nationalism’. Contemporary South Asia 13(4), side 373-388. (15 sider)

Banerjee (2006). ‘Armed masculinity, Hindu nationalism and female political participation in India’. International Feminist Journal of Politics 8(1), side 62-83. (21 sider)

Jaffrelot (2010). ‘The Politics of Processions in Hindu-Muslim Riots’, i Religion, Caste and Politics in India, side 343-375. (32 sider)

Bobbio (2012). ‘Making Gujarat Vibrant: Hindutva, development and the rise of subnationalism in India’. Third World Quarterly 33(4), side 657-672. (15 sider)

Totalt 110 sider

7. Lov og ret

Khare (1972). ‘Indigenous Culture and Lawyer’s Law in India’. Comparative Studies in Society and History 14(1), side 71-96. (25 sider)

Eckert (2006). ‘From Subjects to Citizens: Legalism from Below and the Homogenisation of the Legal Sphere’. Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 38, side 45-75. (30 sider).

Sundar (2011). ‘The Rule of Law and the Rule of Property: Law-Struggles and the Neo-Liberal State in India’, i The State in India after Liberalization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, redigert av Gupta og Sivaramakrishnan, side 175-93. (18 sider)

Ruparelia (2013). ‘India’s New Rights Agenda: Genesis, Promises, Risks’. Pacific Affairs 86(3), side 569-590. (21 sider).

Totalt 94 sider

8. Det unikke og det almene ved indisk demokrati – nye perspektiver

Ruud, Heierstad og Flåten (2016). Kapitel 5 (‘Ganatantra’) i Indiske Utfordringer, side 106-135. (29 sider)

Piliavsky (2013). ‘Where is the Public Sphere? Political communications and the Morality of Disclosure in Rural Rajasthan’. Cambridge Anthropology 31(2), 104-122. (18 sider)

Michelutti (2007). ‘The vernacularization of democracy: political participation and popular politics in North India. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 13, side 639-656. (17 sider)

Banerjee (2008). ‘Democracy, Sacred and Everyday: An Ethnographic Case from India’, i Democracy: Anthropological Approaches, redigert av Paley, side 63-96. (22 sider)

Witsoe (2011). ‘Rethinking Postcolonial Democracy: An Examination of the Politics of Lower-Caste Empowerment in North India’. American Anthropologist 113(4), side 619-631. (12 sider)

Wouters (2015). ‘Polythetic democracy: Tribal elections, bogus votes, and political imagination in the Naga uplands of Northeast India’. Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5(2), side 121-151. (30 sider)

Totalt 128 sider

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