Pensum/læringskrav

Følgende bøker må kjøpes:

Ruud, Mageli og Price (2011). Indias historie med Pakistan og Bangladesh.

I tillegg anbefales følgende bok som generell bakgrunn:

Ruud og Heierstad, red. (2010). Demokrati på indisk.

1. Det indiske demokratiet blir til

Ruud, Mageli og Price (2011). Kapittel 8+9 i Indias historie med Pakistan og Bangladesh, side 262-371 (110 sider)

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

2. Demokratiet demokratiseres

Ruud, Mageli og Price (2011). Kapittel 10 i Indias historie, med Pakistan og Bangladesh, side 372-426. (54 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)

3. Teoretiske perspektiv på indisk demokrati

Varshney (2013). Kapittel 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)

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)

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)

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).

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

5. Kaste og politikk

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)

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)

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)

7. Lov og rett

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).

8. Urfolk, aktivister og maoister

Uday Chandra (2013). Going Primitive: The Ethics of Indigenous Rights Activism in Contemporary Jharkhand. Samaj 7. (18 pages).

Alpa Shah (2013). The tensions over liberal citizenship in a Marxist revolutionary situation: The Maoists in India. Critique of Anthropology 33 (1). (19 pages).

Nandini Sundar (2013). Reflections on civil liberties, citizenship, Adivasi agency and Maoism: A response to Alpa Shah. Critique of Anthropology 33 (3). (7 pages).

Alpa Shah (2013). Response to Nandini Sundar’s Response to ‘The Tensions Over Citizenship in a Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Situation: The Maoists in India’. Critique of Anthropology 33 (4). (4 pages).

Film:

https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2011/10/20111019124251679523.html

9. Oppsummering

Jostein Jakobsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Anand Vaidya (2018). Mapping the World’s Largest Democracy (1947-2017). Forum for Development Studies.

Publisert 21. nov. 2018 22:06 - Sist endret 22. nov. 2018 10:11