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The essays in the three-volume series, Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty-Year Perspective, 1956-2006, span over five decades of the Rudolphs` scholarship on politics in India. This work brings out the distinctiveness of Indian democratic experience through a contextual political analysis.
The Realm of Ideas, the first of the three volumes, explores how modes of inquiry, kinds of knowledge, construction of categories and historical context shape political analysis and explanation. The scholars argue for methodological pluralism and `situated knowledge`. They also critique key concepts such as political culture, modernization, civil society and orientalism and apply them to questions of social change.
Key Features:
Life works of two renowned political scientists
Particularly useful for courses on politics and history
Re-emphasizes the importance of area studies
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgements
Modes of Inquiry Introduction
Surveys in India: Field Experience in Madras State (Lloyd I Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Determinants and Varieties of Agrarian Mobilization (Lloyd I Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Engaging Subjective Knowledge: How Amar Singh`s Diary Narratives of and by the Self Help Explain Identity Politics (Lloyd I Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Review of Pradeep Chhibber, Democracy Without Associations: Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India (Lloyd I Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, The Imperialism of Categories (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Perestroika and Its Other (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend (Lloyd I Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Theorizing Politics and Society Introduction
Consensus and Conflict in Indian Politics (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Introduction in The Modernity of Tradition: Political Development in India (Lloyd I Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Authority and Power in Bureaucratic and Patrimonial Administration: A Revisionist Interpretation of Weber on Bureaucracy (Lloyd I Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Conclusion in In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State (Lloyd I Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
The Media and Cultural Politics (Lloyd I Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Occidentalism and Orientalism: Perspectives on Legal Pluralism (Lloyd I Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Civil Society and the Realm of Freedom (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph)
Living with Difference in India: Legal Pluralism and Legal Universalism in Historical Context (Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I)
IndexISBN - 9780199453382
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Pages : 340
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