| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages : illustrations (some color)) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I. Politics of Representation -- Group Representation and Reservations for Minorities in Colonial India -- Paradoxes of Political Inclusion: Political Reservation for Scheduled Tribes in India -- Part II. Representation in Electoral Systems and Institutions -- Ambedkar's Solution Against Communal Majority -- Ambedkar's Alternatives to Electoral Safeguards and Electoral Representation of Untouchables and Minorities -- Scheduled Caste MPs and Their Role in Influencing Policy-Making -- Part III. Representation of Religious Minorities -- Majoritarian Politics and the Representation of India's Muslims -- Representing Indian Muslims: Parliamentary Questions as Instrument of Evaluating Substantive Representation in the Lok Sabha, 1999–2016 161 -- Shifting Terrain of Muslim Representation: New Political Experiments in Indian States in the 2000s -- Part IV. Representation of Women -- Legislative Presence and Substantive Representation: The Case of Women Legislators in India -- The Reservation Debate in India: Difference, Performance, Empowerment -- Does Political Representation Empower Women? The Case of Women in India’s Political Parties |
| Summary |
The book presents debates around the concept of representation and how these ideas apply to representation for selected disadvantaged groups in India. It discusses empirical concerns and examines political representation of these disadvantaged groups in post-independence India. The experience of political representation of SCs, STs: the method of election, role of political parties in providing representation, role played by these groups in parliamentary institutions, and the extent of their participation. A second, significant area the volume attempts to cover is representation of the Muslim minority in parliament and state assemblies and understanding the reasons for their under-representation since independence, and more particularly in recent years. Dr Sudha Pai retired as Professor from the Centre for Political Studies and as Rector (Pro-Vice Chancellor) of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in January 2016. She was Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi from 2006 to 2009 and National Fellow of the ICSSR from 2015-2017. Dr Pai was awarded the 2019 Exemplar Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement by the South Asian Studies Association, USA at the South Asian Studies Association Conference at Claremont College Mckenna, Los Angeles, in 2019. Dr Sukhadeo Thorat is Chairman, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR); former Chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC); and Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has a BA (Milind College of Arts, Aurangabad, Maharashtra), MA in Economics (Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad), MPhil/PhD in Economics (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and Diploma in Economic Planning (Main School of Planning, Warsaw, Poland). His research areas include agricultural development, rural poverty, institution and economic growth, problems of marginalised groups, economics of caste system, caste discrimination and poverty. He was the Director of the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi from 2003 to 2006 and the Research Associate of International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA, since 1992. In 2008 he was awarded the Padmashree in the field of literature and education |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Minorities -- India -- Social conditions
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Representative government and representation -- India
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Minorities -- Social conditions
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Politics and government
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Representative government and representation
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India -- Politics and government.
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Pai, Sudha, 1950- editor.
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Thorat, Sukhadeo, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789811915444 |
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981191544X |
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