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Battles Half Won: India's Improbable Democracy

Penned By Ashutosh Varshney
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Battles Half Won: India's Improbable Democracy

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In this lively collection of essays, Ashutosh Varshney analyses the deepening of Indian democracy since 1947 and the challenges this has created. The overview traces the forging and consolidation of India’s improbable democracy.Other essays examine themes ranging from Hindu nationalism, caste politics and ethnic conflict to the north–south economic divergence and politics of economic reforms.The book offers original insights on several key questions: how federalism has handled linguistic diversity thus far, and why governance and regional underdevelopment will drive the formation of new states now; how coalition making induces ideological moderation in the politics of the BJP; how the political empowerment of the Dalits has not ensured their economic transformation; how the social revolution in the south led to its overtaking the north; and how the 1991 economic reforms succeeded because they affected elite, not mass, politics.Lucid and erudite, Battles Half Won brilliantly portrays the successes and failures of India’s experience in a new, comparative perspective, enriching our understanding of the idea of democracy.

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Length 432 Pages
Language En-GB
Imprint Penguin
Released November 4, 2013
Identifier (ISBN) 19442932
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Ashutosh Varshney

Ashutosh Varshney is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Ashutosh Varshney can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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