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. Demokratiets røtter
Ruud, Mageli og Price (2011). Kapittel 8+9 i Indias historie med Pakistan og Bangladesh, 262-371 (110 sider)
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, 484-519. (35 sider)
2. Fasene i indisk politikk
Ruud, Mageli og Price (2011). Kapittel 10 i Indias historie, med Pakistan og Bangladesh, 372-426. (54 sider)
Kothari (1964). ‘The Congress “System” in India. Asian Survey 4(12), 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, 120-45. (25 sider)
Jayal (2016). ‘Contending representative claims in Indian democracy’. India Review 15(2), 172-195. (23 sider)
Varadarajan (2019). ‘The State and/of the Media in Modi’s India’, i Indian Democracy: Origins, Trajectories, Contestations, redigert av Nilsen, Nielsen og Vaidya, 58-71 (14 sider).
3. Antropologiske tilnærminger
Michelutti (2007). ‘The vernacularization of democracy: political participation and popular politics in North India’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 13, 639-656. (17 sider)
Banerjee (2008). ‘Democracy, Sacred and Everyday: An Ethnographic Case from India’, i Democracy: Anthropological Approaches, redigert av Paley, 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)
Björkman (2014). ‘“You can’t buy a vote”: Meanings of money in a Mumbai election’. American Ethnologist 41(4), 617-634. (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), 340-372. (32 sider)
Nielsen (2016). ‘Mamata Banerjee: Redefining Female Leadership’ i India’s Democracies: Diversity, Co-optation, Resistance, redigert av Ruud og Heierstad, 101-34. (33 sider)
Ruud og Islam (2016). ‘Political Dynasty Formation in Bangladesh’. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 39(2), 401-414. (13 sider)
Price (1989). ‘Kingly Models in Indian Political Behavior: Culture as a Medium of History’. Asian Survey 29(6), 559-572. (13 sider)
Manor (2000). ‘Small-Time Political Fixers in India’s States: “Towel over Armpit”’. Asian Survey 40(5), 816-35. (19 sider)
Jaffrelot (2015). ‘The Modi-centric BJP 2014 election campaign: new techniques and old tactics’, Contemporary South Asia, 23(2), 151-166. (16 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, 193-225. (32 sider)
Jaffrelot (2000). ‘The rise of the other backward classes in the Hindi belt’. Journal of Asian Studies 59(1), 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, 449-458. (9 sider)
Waghmore (2013). ‘The Imagined “Bahujan”: Caste and Cultural Repertoires of BSP’, i Civility against Caste: Dalit Politics and citizenship in Western India’, 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), 653-672. (19 sider)
Gorringe og Karthikeyan (2014). ‘The Hidden Politics of Vegetarianism: Caste and The Hindu canteen’, Economic and Political Weekly XLIX(20), 20-22. (3 sider)
6. Hindunasjonalisme
Flåten (2010). ‘BJPs hinduidentitet’, i Demokrati på indisk, redigert av Ruud og Heierstad, 35-62. (27 sider)
Banerjee (2006). ‘Armed masculinity, Hindu nationalism and female political participation in India’. International Feminist Journal of Politics 8(1), 62-83. (21 sider)
Jaffrelot (2011). ‘The Politics of Processions and Hindu-Muslim Riots’, i Religion, Caste and Politics in India, 343-375. (32 sider)
Udupa (2018). ‘Enterprise Hindutva and social media in urban India’, Contemporary South Asia, 26(4), 453-467. (15 sider)
7. Lov og rettigheter
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. Demokratiets marginer: Urfolk, aktivister og maoister
Uday Chandra (2013). ‘Going Primitive: The Ethics of Indigenous Rights Activism in Contemporary Jharkhand’. Samaj 7. (18 sider).
Alpa Shah (2013). ‘The tensions over liberal citizenship in a Marxist revolutionary situation: The Maoists in India’. Critique of Anthropology 33 (1). (19 sider).
Nandini Sundar (2013). ‘Reflections on civil liberties, citizenship, Adivasi agency and Maoism: A response to Alpa Shah’. Critique of Anthropology 33 (3). (7 sider).
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 sider).
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 46(1), 83-108. (26 sider)