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Studies in Indian Politics
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Hybrid journal (It can contain Open Access articles)
ISSN (Print) 2321-0230 - ISSN (Online) 2321-7472
Published by Sage Publications

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  Authors: Suhas Palshikar
  Pages: 7 - 7
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Volume 10, Issue 1, Page 7-7, June 2022.
  
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-07-11T04:10:25Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221083069
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2022)
Book review: Adam Michael Auerbach, Demanding Development: The Politics of
Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums
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  Authors: Manjesh Rana
  Pages: 145 - 146
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Volume 10, Issue 1, Page 145-146, June 2022.
  Adam Michael Auerbach, Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), 304 pp., ₹663.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-07-11T04:11:56Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221082827
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2022)
Book review: Peter Ronald deSouza, Hilal Ahmed and Mohd. Sanjeer Alam,
Democratic Accommodations: Minorities in Contemporary India
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  Authors: Krishnamurari Mukherjee
  Pages: 148 - 150
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Volume 10, Issue 1, Page 148-150, June 2022.
  Peter Ronald deSouza, Hilal Ahmed and Mohd. Sanjeer Alam, Democratic Accommodations: Minorities in Contemporary India (New Delhi: Bloomsbury Publishing House, 2019), 203 pp. ₹1,299.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-07-11T04:12:48Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221082823
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2022)
Book review: Bidyut Chakrabarty and Rajendra Kumar Pandey,
Reconceptualizing Indian Democracy: The Changing Electorate
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  Authors: Radhika Kumar
  Pages: 151 - 153
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Volume 10, Issue 1, Page 151-153, June 2022.
  Bidyut Chakrabarty and Rajendra Kumar Pandey, Reconceptualizing Indian Democracy: The Changing Electorate (New Delhi: SAGE, 2020), 258 pp., ₹1,050.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-07-11T04:12:20Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221082829
  Issue No: Vol. 10, No. 1 (2022)
‘India @75: Religion and Citizenship in India’
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  Authors: Madhav Khosla, Milan Vaishnav
  First page: 8
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Ahead of Print.
  As India celebrates 75 years of independence, fresh questions are being raised about who is an Indian. This essay introduces a special section of Studies in Indian Politics which puts forward answers to this question considering recent tectonic changes in India’s political climate and party system. We outline how religion is being increasingly adopted as a filter through which citizenship is decided—both in formal, legal terms as well as in informal terms. The special section delves deeper into this terrain, exploring several critical themes: de jure changes to India’s citizenship regime, the relationship between Hindu nationalism and liberal democracy, the judiciary’s role in adjudicating religious disputes, the Muslim community’s response to recent policy shifts and the changing nature of electoral coalition building. Taken together, the articles in this section represent a signal contribution to ongoing debates in India—and elsewhere—on democracy, nationalism and inclusion.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-06-02T04:28:34Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221082800
Reinventing the Republic: Faith and Citizenship in India
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  Authors: Niraja Gopal Jayal
  First page: 14
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Ahead of Print.
  In India, a new legal regime and political ecosystem has been enacted for India’s Muslim minority that effectively undermines the constitutional commitment to secularism. This article examines the legal, political, social, moral, and international implications of an assemblage of law and policy—namely, the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, as well as two other initiatives, the National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register—that cumulatively animates an ambitious project to reinvent the nature of the Indian republic, from a pluralist, multi-ethnic and multi-religious civic community to a political community marked by ethno-religious majoritarianism.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-04-20T02:06:52Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221082799
Hindu Nationalism: From Ethnic Identity to Authoritarian Repression
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  Authors: Pratap Bhanu Mehta
  First page: 31
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Ahead of Print.
  This article reflects on the relationship between Hindu nationalism and democracy and how the former emerges from within democracy only to subvert it. The essay outlines important conceptual issues in the relationship between Hindu nationalism and democracy, discusses the relationship between the idea of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ and ‘Hindu Rajya’, and delves into the complex interplay between Hindu nationalism and caste. This article ultimately argues that Hindu nationalism’s alignment with authoritarianism in a political style does not simply corrode democracy, but it also undermines all values. The objective of this analysis is not to provide a comprehensive explanation of the rise of Hindu nationalism, as much as to reflect on the ways in which its ideology operates at multiple levels.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-06-02T07:27:13Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221082828
Representation and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court: Adjudicating Law and
Religion in India
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  Authors: Raeesa Vakil
  First page: 48
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Ahead of Print.
  This article presents the argument that the Supreme Court of India’s jurisprudence on procedural bars to litigation is insufficient to address challenges that arise in cases involving religious rights. Examining the Court’s views on standing (the right to litigate) in three key public interest decisions (the Sabarimala Temple case, the Ram Janmabhoomi case, and the triple talaq case), I argue that the Court has privileged a discretionary, ends-based reasoning over an approach based on principle and law, resulting in erratic and inconsistent outcomes. The result is an uncertain level of protection to minority rights in judicial processes.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-06-02T07:26:32Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221083064
New India, Hindutva Constitutionalism, and Muslim Political Attitudes
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  Authors: Hilal Ahmed
  First page: 62
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Ahead of Print.
  This article explores Muslim political attitudes in contemporary India. It contextualizes the political responses of Muslim communities in the backdrop of two crucial legal-constitutional changes introduced by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government: the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution and the Citizenship Amendment Act, 2019. These changes, I suggest, stem from the official doctrine of New India and its operative mechanism, Hindutva constitutionalism. Analysing the nature of Muslim participation in the anti-CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) protests and Muslim electoral responses in two subsequent elections (Delhi Assembly Election, 2020 and the Bihar Assembly Election, 2020), I argue that political engagement of Muslims could be interpreted as an ever-evolving discourse, which not merely responds to Hindutva politics but also asserts its relative autonomy.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-04-05T05:18:42Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221082833
Religion-as-Ethnicity and the Emerging Hindu Vote in India
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  Authors: Neelanjan Sircar
  First page: 79
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Ahead of Print.
  Religious division formed the basis for the subcontinent’s partition and has continued to be a major social cleavage in local relations. Yet remarkably religious parties have rarely been successful in India. This may be changing with an ascendant Bharatiya Janata Party mobilizing the Hindu vote. Accordingly, this article seeks to explicate the conditions under which successful religious parties may emerge. In order to do so, I conceive of electoral mobilization on religion as a form of ethnic mobilization, what I refer to as religion-as-ethnicity voting. I argue that religion-as-ethnicity voting emerges when the religious group meets certain spatial demographic criteria (density and pivotality) and when a governing party representing these interests can use state power to reify boundaries between religious groups. I use this framework to explain the emergence of the Hindu vote in the Indian state of Assam.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-06-02T07:25:43Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221082824
The Politics of Knowledge of Medicinal Plants in India: Corporations,
Collectors and Cultivators as Constituents
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  Authors: Abhishek Handa
  First page: 93
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Ahead of Print.
  This article seeks to understand one of the most important problems in the contemporary discourse of modern development, that of management, control, collection and trade of medicinal plants in India. The tremendous growth in the market for herbal medicines since the 1990s has prompted large-scale industrial production of these medicines by big pharmaceutical corporations. This relies on medicinal plants mostly derived from the wild, and while their market has grown enormously, it has also led to their over-harvesting, without any concomitant efforts at regeneration. This article offers to analyse the political aspect of the existing market supply chain of medicinal plants in India. This study specifically focuses on problematizing the complex power structures in the market supply chain of medicinal plants, with reference to the knowledge of production that guides the corporations. In order to manufacture herbal products on the basis of large-scale centralized production systems, the corporations privilege their ‘knowledge’ of harvesting, production and distribution over that of the collectors. The collectors are usually part of communities that have built up their knowledge of accessibility and medicinal properties of these medicinal plants over centuries of care, experience and innovation. It is when these two knowledge systems clash, in the larger context of political economy of development and the public policies of the state, that the degradation of nature becomes inevitable.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-04-27T12:43:10Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221083244
Politics of Knowledge in Development: The Case of Sugar as an Artificial
Sweetener
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  Authors: Arun Kumar Singh
  First page: 107
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Ahead of Print.
  The article aims to explicate the binary created between the two sweeteners, that is, gur (jaggery) and sugar. The focal point of this article is to understand with the analytical framework of politics of knowledge how a ‘traditional’ sweetener, that is, gur, is replaced from our diet by a ‘modern’ sweetener, that is, sugar. This framework replaces the term ‘traditional’ knowledge with ‘already existing knowledge system’ (AEKS, as spelt out by Banerjee [2021, Studies in Indian Politics, vol. 9, pp. 78–90]) and its transformation is examined in five different spaces: epistemology, political economy, historical context, state policy and collective action. In the first section, the epistemic hegemony of sugar is deconstructed through analytical understanding of technological processing; in the second, the changing political economy of sweeteners is explored. The third analyses post-colonial sugar policy showing the continuum from the colonial; and the fourth explores the politics of collective action to challenge and delegitimize the hegemony of sugar.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-04-09T03:36:06Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221082798
The Role of Press in the Politics of Knowledge in Development: Challenges
of Creating ‘Alternatives’ in Media
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  Authors: Tripta Sharma
  First page: 118
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Ahead of Print.
  Media is an integral part of any society. In modern societies where it has grown so much, it becomes very important to pay attention to the role of media in constructing the social. This article discusses how the role of press in establishing the hegemony of the modern-industrial west works through the politics of news, establishing the hierarchies in the politics of knowledge in general and therefore also in the project of development. It argues that in post-colonial societies, the latter includes a process of marginalization of already existing knowledge systems, for long and more commonly referred to as ‘traditional knowledges’. Exploring initiatives in creating counters to mainstream media, the article also invites a problematization of the category of ‘alternative media’ as a true alternative presenting peoples’ perspectives on development.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-04-05T05:18:22Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221082830
Teaching Indian Politics: How Independent Are We'
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  Authors: K. C. Suri
  First page: 132
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-05-30T10:53:03Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221082790
Sound Subjects and Hearing Cultures: Towards an Acoustic Ethnography
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  Authors: Ratheesh Kumar
  First page: 138
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Ahead of Print.
  
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-05-30T10:53:29Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221082831
Book review: Christophe Jaffrelot. Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and
the Rise of Indian Democracy
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  Authors: Tanvir Aeijaz
  First page: 146
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Ahead of Print.
  Christophe Jaffrelot. Modi’s India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Indian Democracy. Westland Publications. 2021. 639 pages. ₹899.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-04-05T05:19:02Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221083399
Book review: Jinee Lokaneeta, The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and
Scientific Interrogation in India
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  Authors: Vipul Mudgal
  First page: 150
  Abstract: Studies in Indian Politics, Ahead of Print.
  Jinee Lokaneeta, The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogation in India (Hyderabad: Oriental BlackSwan, 2020), 264 pp. ₹795.
  Citation: Studies in Indian Politics
  PubDate: 2022-04-05T05:18:03Z
  DOI: 10.1177/23210230221082826