Indian Political System

753 Pages·2018·7.062 MB·English

by  Mahendra Prasad Singh, Himanshu Roy

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Indian Political System
Fourth Edition
Edited by
Mahendra Prasad Singh
Himanshu Roy
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Contents
Preface by Himanshu Roy ix
Introduction by Mahendra Prasad Singh xi
Contributors xix
Colonial Backdrop 1
1. The Colonial State by Mahendra Prasad Singh 3
2. Colonial Economy by Himanshu Roy 13
Structure 47
3. Constituent Assembly and its Vision of the Future
by S.K. Chaube 49
4. Constitutional Amendment and Socio-Political
Implications by Sunder Raman 75
5. The Nature of the State by Rajesh K. Singh 91
6. Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles
of State Policy by K.C. Markandan 104
7. The Parliament by Mahendra Prasad Singh
and Roopinder Oberoi 130
8. Federalism: Constitution and Dynamics
by Mahendra Prasad Singh 145
9. Federalism: Elite and Nationalities
by Himanshu Roy 170
10. The Judiciary: Supreme Court by Vinod Sethi 183
11. The Union Executive by Mahendra Prasad Singh 210
12. Governor: Powers and Position by Renu Sethi 224
13. Bureaucracy and Development by Rajvir Sharma 244
14. Ombudsman in India by Rajni Ranjan Jha 257
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Process 275
15. Electoral Commission and Electoral Process
by Sushma Yadav 277
16. The National Party System
by Mahendra Prasad Singh 297
17. State Party Systems by Himanshu Roy 312
18. State Politics in India by Mahendra Prasad Singh 325
19. Panchayati Raj by S.N. Mishra 357
20. Peasantry and Peasant Movements
by Rajendra Singh 379
21. Trade Union Movements by Sharit K. Bhowmik 401
22. Women’s Movement in India: Issues
and Perspective by Pushpa Bali 419
23. Communalism by Bibekbrata Sarkar 432
24. Secularism: The Search for a Theory
by Bibekbrata Sarkar 441
25. Regionalism by Manju Subhash 449
26. Social Structure and Democratic Process:
Perspectives, Problems, and Trends
by Satish Kumar Jha 466
Policy 475
27. Agrarian Policies and Their Impact
by Shubha Pandey 477
28. Industrial Policy by Kamal A. Mitra Chenoy 494
29. Political Economy of Employment Planning
by Kamal Nayan Kabra 511
30. Science and Technology Policy by Subir Verma 529
31. Terrorism, Public Order, and Human Rights
by Jaytilak Guha Roy 546
32. Environment: A Matter of Survival
by Ashish Kothari 556
33. Emerging Trends in India’s Foreign Policy:
Challenges and Prospects by Sanju Gupta 573
34. Reservation Policy in India by Madhu Jha 591
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Contents ✽ vii
35. Education in India by Sonali Chitalkar 611
36. Policy and Planning for Health Services
by Indira Chakravarthi 642
Conclusion 693
37. India Since 1947 by Bipan Chandra 695
38. Micro-Movements and Future of Politics by D.L. Sheth 707
Index 719
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Preface
Himanshu Roy
In the past ten years, since the publication of the third edition of this book,
two major changes can be delineated in Indian politics: one, many social
laws have been enacted in the legislatures at the Centre and in States under
the pressure of democratic upsurge which have democratized liberalism, for
example, Employment Guarantee Act, Right to Information Act, Food Se-
curity Act, Forest Rights, Civic Rights, Rights for Women, etc., were enacted
during Congress regime; and second, at the Centre, and in many States,
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has emerged as the dominant party forming
the governments, where earlier it was in opposition, which has now led to
a shift in the governmentality. The focus now is on new policy formulation,
on their effective implementation, on plugging the leakages of resources
in development process, on eliminating corruption through transparency,
and on actuating efficiency in administration. Moreover, the new govern-
ments have involved public in policy formulation, for example, on educa-
tion, health, governance, environment, and on infrastructure development.
The functioning of the administrative agencies are constantly monitored
through new technology, review meetings, complaint cells. This has begun
to reflect on the results visible in railway, defense, highway projects, in
‘Make In India’, in ‘Start Up India’ or in the foreign policy which has been
effectively transformed into soliciting global investment in India to make
her a manufacturing hub of the world, to generate employment, and skill
development for the expanding young population. Furthermore, some of
the old policies like Rural Employment Guarantee Act, and Awas Yojna have
been rejigged and realigned for better asset creation. The new policies or
the realignment of old policies, as indicated above, may speed up creation
of rural urban infrastructure, may actuate efficiency and transparency in the
functioning of administration or, it may also speed up rural to urban migra-
tion and rural-urban stress. Few incremental changes have become visible,
such as, disaster management, highway development, etc.
Most importantly, the BJP has co-opted different sections of society in
its government, in its party organizations, in its icons, in its programs, and in
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Preface ✽ ix
its ideology. It has become more amorphous and overarching. Its expansion
and success has been a reflection of this.
However, the control of governmental power by the BJP at the Centre
with Narendra Modi as Prime Minister has unleashed a counter political dis-
course by his political-ideological opponents. The themes are intolerance,
nationalism and socio-economic policies. The reaction is visible in the
media, in the parliament, and in many of their micro-macro acts.
This edition, revised and enlarged with two new chapters on health and
education policy, will add to the pedagogy on Indian politics.
We thank Kaushal Jajware and Sailza Kumari for their work.
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