Ebook: Readings in Indian Sociology: Volume VIII: Political Sociology of India

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- PART I -- The Conceptual Aspects -- 1 -- Caste and Class: Some Aspects of Continuity and Change -- 2 -- Hierarchical and Competitive Inequality -- 3 -- Sociological Issues in the Analysis of Social Movements in Independent India -- 4 -- Movements of Protest, Construction of Centres and State Formation in India and Europe -- 5 -- The Indian State in Crisis? Nationalism and Nation-Building -- PART II -- Institutions -- 6 -- The Panchayati Raj and the Democratic Polity -- 7 -- Trade Unions in India-A Sociological Approach -- 8 -- Civil Society, State and Democracy: Lessons for India -- 9 -- Democracy and Leadership: The Gendered Voice in Politics -- PART III -- Processes -- 10 -- Meaning and Process of Tribal Integration in a Democratic Society -- 11 -- Landholding Pattern and Power Relations in a Mysore Village -- 12 -- The Mid-Term Poll in a Village in Outer Delhi Constituency -- 13 -- Nation-State and Open Systems of Stratification: Making Room for the 'Politics of Commitment' -- 14 -- Understanding the Modern Dalit Movement -- 15 -- Assertive Identities, Indigeneity, and the Politics of Recognition as a Tribe: The Bhutias, the Lepchas and the Limbus of Sikkim -- PART IV -- Methodological Issues -- 16 -- Relevance of the Marxist Approach to the Study ofIndian Society -- 17 -- Co-operatives and Caste in Maharashtra: A Case Study -- 18 -- Power Elite in Rural India: Some Questions and Clarifications -- 19 Education and the Emerging Patterns of Political Orientations: A Sociological Analysis -- 20 -- Studying Communal Riots in India: Some Methodological Issues -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors.