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Indian Poiitics

Volume 5 Number 1

June 2017

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Contents

Articles

Political Pressures and Bureaucratic Consequences: Vignettes of JanmabhoomiImplementation In Andhra Pradesh IKiran Konkipudi and Suraj Jacob

After Silent Revolution: Most Marginalized Dalits and Local DemocracyIn Uttar Pradesh, North India 18Satendra Kumar

Padayatras and the Changing Nature of Political Communication in India 32Radhika Kumar

Decentralized Governance and Devolution of Funds to the Panchayats in India:A Critical Analysis of Two States 42M. Gopinath Reddy and Bishnu Prasad Mohapatra

Understanding Ethnicity-based Autonomy Movements: A Study of Manipur 55Komol Singha

Teaching-Learning Politics in India

Doing Political Science Differently: Experiences from an Institute of Social Sciences 67jagannath Ambagudia

Notes on Methods

Political Processes under the Microscope: Comparative Ethnographyas an Approach to Understanding Democracy and Elections in India 73Manisha Priyam

From Lokniti's Data Archive

Time of Vote Choice in India

Shreyas Sardesai and jyoti Mishra

Book Reviews

Hilal Ahmed, Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments,Memory, Contestation 92Christophe Jaffrelot

Rajshree Chandra (ed.), The Cunning of Rights: Law, Life, Biocultural 93Hidam Premananda

Rekha Chowdhary, Jammu and Kashmir: Politics of Identity and Separatism 95Sangit Kumar Ragi

Tariq Thachil, Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India 97Vibha Attri

Sunil Khilnani, Vikram Raghavan and Arun K. Thiruvengadam (eds),Comparative Constitutionalism in South Asia

Maneesha Tikekar (ed.), Constitutionalism and Democracy in South Asia;Political Developments in India's Neighbourhood

MarkTushent and Madhav Khosia (eds). Unstable Constitutionalism:Law and Politics in South Asia

Alisha Dhingra

Paula Banerjee, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury and Atig Ghosh (eds).The State of Being Stateless: An Account of South Asia I q2Ravi Sriramachandran

Special Statistics

Assembly Elections 2014-2016 IVibha Attri and Himanshu Bhattacharya

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Contents

Studies in IndianPolitics

Articles

The Better Angels of Their Natures? The Declining Rate of Homicidesagainst India's DalitsPeter Mayer

The Associational Basis of Vanniyar Organizations In Tamil NaduR Saravana Raja

The Historical Legacy of Party System Stability in KeralaBalu Sunilraj and Oliver Heath

Special Section: Conservatism

The Roots and Varieties of Political Conservatism in India

Christophe Jaffrelot

Collective Conservatism and the Constituent Assembly Debates:The Case of Free Speech in IndiaMalvika Maheshwari

The Political Economy of Economic Conservatism in India: From MoralEconomy to Pro-business NationalismAdnar) Naseemullah

The Congress in Gujarat (1917-1969): Conservative Face of aProgressive PartyChristophe Jaffrelot

Teaching-Learning Politics in India

Teaching Political Violence: Experiences from a South Asian ClassroomAnkur Datta

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Notes on Methods

Studying Indian Politics with Large-scale Data: Indian Election Data 1961-Today 269Francesco R. Jensenius and Giles Verniers

From Lokniti's Data Archive

Vote Choice of Indian Voters: Guided or Independent? 276Shreyas Sardesai and Vibha Attri

Book Reviews

James Manor, The Writings ofJames Manor: Politics and State-SocietyRelations in India 286

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Tarini Bedi, The Dashing Ladies ofShiv Sena: Political Matronage inUrbanizing India 287Garima Dhabhai

Kanchan Chandra. (Ed.), Democratic Dynasties: State, Party and Family inContemporary Indian Politics 289Ritambhara Malaviya

Pranab Kumar Das (ed.). Decentralisation, Governance and DevelopmentAn Indian PerspectiveSatyajit Singh, The Local in Governance: Politics, Decentralization and Environment 291Himadri Chatterjee

Anuj Bhuwania, Courting the People: Public Litigation in Post Emergency India 293Awadhendra Sharon

Prerna Singh, How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism andSocial Development in India 295Satyajit Singh

Achin Vanik, After the BombAli Ahmed, India's Doctrine Puzzle—Limiting War in South Asia 297Rajiv Nayan

Obituary

Alfred Stepan (1936-2017) 300K. K. Kailash