Political and Cultural Expressions of Indian Democracy

Papers

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Biomedical Discourse and Indigenous Knowledges: The Shaping of A Plural Health Culture
Leena Abraham, TISS, Mumbai

Gendered Nuances of Citizenship Claims
Flavia Agnes, MAJLIS, Mumbai

Why do people Vote?: An All India Ethnographic Picture
Mukulika Banerjee, London School of Economics

Challenging Bihar
Rukmini Banerji, PRATHAM, New Delhi

Elections as Sites of Civic Engagement: The Intertwining of Parties and Movements in India
Amrita Basu, Amherst College

Timepass: Youth, Class and the Politics of Waiting in India
Craig Jeffrey, University of Oxford

Trash Talk: The Messy Business of Theorizing NGOs, Urban Civil Society, and the State
Neema Kudva, Cornell University

The Blockade of the Indian World-Class City: Dialectical Images of Postcolonial Urbanism
Ananya Roy, University of California, Berkeley

Dalit Publics and Mumbai: Cultural Politics, State, and the Making of a Literary Field, 1950-1972
Juned Shaikh, University of Washington

Gender Justice and Democracy in India: The Role of Rights Based Development in Facilitating Women’s Political Agency
Maya Unnithan, University of Sussex

Does Ideology Matter in Indian Elections?
Ideological Space and Issue Cleavages in Contemporary India
Yogendra Yadav, CSDS