Crises ofthe Republic

Week One: Republican Ideals and Political Realities

Uday Singh Mehta, "The social question and the absolutism of politics", in Seminar, vo!. 615 (2010), pp. 23-7

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, "What is constitutional morality?", in Seminar, vo!. 615 (2010), pp. 17-22

Dipesh Chakrabarty, "In the name of politics: democracy and the power of the multitude in India", in Chakrabarty, Majumdar and Sartori (eds.), From the Colonial to the Postcolonial (Delhi: Oxford, 2007)

David Gilmartin, "Election law and the 'people' in colonial and postcolonial India", in Chakrabarty, Majumdar and Sartori (eds.), From the Colonial to the Postcolonial (Delhi: Oxford, 2007)

Nivedita Menon, "State/gender/community: citizenship in contemporary India", Economic and Political Weekly, Jan. 31 1998

Week Two: Emergency

S. Kochanek, 'Mrs Gandhi's Pyramid: The New Congress', in Zoya Hasan (ed.), Parties and Party Politics in India New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002,pp.76- 106

Sudipta Kaviraj, 'Indira Gandhi and Indian Politics', in Economic and Political Weekly 21:38-39,1986

Ashis Nandy, 'Indira Gandhi and the Culture ofIndian Politics', in At the Edge of Psychology Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp.112-129

Emma Tarlo, Unsettling Memories: Narratives ofIndia's Emergency New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003

Bruce Chatwin, "On the road with Mrs. G.", in What am I doing Here? (London: Penguin, 1989), pp. 316-42

Aandhi, dir. Gulzar, 1975

Week Three: Khalistan Movement Ashis Nandy, "The discreet charms ofIndian terrorism", in The Savage Freud (Princeton, 1995), pp. 1-31.

Ashis Nandy, "Terrorism Indian style", in The Romance ofthe State

Mark Tully and Satish Jacob, Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi's Last Battle (new Delhi: Peguin, 1985)

Surinder Singh Jodhka, "Looking back at the Khalistan Movement", Economic and Political Weekly, April 200 I, pp. 1311-18

Veena Das, Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007)

Brian Keith Axel, The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation and the Formation ofa Sikh Diaspora (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001)

Michael Nijhawan, Dhadi Darbar: Religion, Violence and the Performance ofSikh History (New Delhi: OUP, 2006)

Maachis, dir. Gulzar, 1996

Week Four: Mandal Commission

Ian Duncan, 'Dalits and Politics in Rural North India: The Bahujan Sanlaj Party in Uttar Pradesh', The Journal ofPeasant Studies, vo!.27 no. 1 (1999): 35-60

Vinay Sitapati, "The Dalit contract with India", in Seminar, vo!. 615 (2010), pp. 39- 42.

D. R. Nagaraj, The Flaming Feet and Other Essays (Permanent Black, 2010), parts I and n.

Ajoy Bose, Behenji: A Political Biography ofMayawati (Penguin-Viking, 2008)

Christophe Jaffre1ot, India's Silent Revolution: The Rise ofthe Low Castes in North Indian Politics (Columbia, )

Week Five: Shahbano Case

Upendra Baxi, "Siting secularism in the uniform civil code", in A. D. Needham and R. Sunder Rajan (eds.), The Crisis ofSecularism un India (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. 267-293. Upendra Baxi, "The judiciary as a resource for Indian democracy", in Seminar, vol. 615 (2010), pp. 61-7

Flavia Agnes, "The supreme court, the media and the uniform civil code debate in India", in A. D. Needham and R. Sunder Rajan (eds.), The Crisis ofSecularism in India (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. 294-315.

C. J. Chandrachud, "The judgement", in Asghar Ali Engineer (ed.), The Shah Bano Controversy (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1987), pp. 23-34.

"The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Bill, 1986", in Asghar Ali Engineer (ed.), The Shah Bano Controversy (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1987), pp. 85-88.

Zakia Pathak and Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan, "Shahbano", in Judith Butler and Joan Scott (eds.), Feminists Theorize the Political (New York: Routledge, 1992), pp. 257- 79

Week Six: Ram Janmabhoomi Movement

Oliver Heath, "Anatomy of the BJP's Rise to Power: Social, regional and Political Expansion in the 1990s", in Zoya Hasan (ed.), Parties and Party Politics in India New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp.232-256

A G Noorani, ""Legal aspects to the issue", in S. Gopal (ed.), Anatomy ofa Confrontation (New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1991), pp. 58-98.

Nandy, Trivedy, Mayaram and Yagnik, Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanmabhumi Movement and Fear of the Self (New Delhi: OUP, 1997).

Ashis Nandy, "Post-secularist manifesto", in The Romance of the State (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2003).

Ram ke Naam, dir. Anand Patwardhan, 1992

Week Seven: Bombay Riots and Bomb Blasts

Jayant Lele, "Saffronization of the Shiv Sena: The political economy of city, state and nation", in Sujata Patel and Alice Thomer (eds.), Bombay: Metaphor for Modern India (Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 185-212.

Usha Thakkar, "The commissioner and the corporators: power politics at municipal level", in Sujata Patel and Alice Thomer (eds.), Bombay: Metaphor for Modern India (Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 248-267.

Jyoti Punwani, "'My area, your area': how riots changed the city", in Sujata Patel and Jim Masselos (eds.), Bombay and Mumbai: The City in Transition (new Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 235-266.

Thomas Blom Hansen, "Governance and myths of state in Murnbai", in C. J. Fuller and Veronique Benei (eds.), The Everyday State and Society in Modern India (New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2000), pp. 31-67.

Vyjayanthi Rao, "How to read a bomb: scenes from Bombay's Black Friday", in Public Culture, vo1.19, no. 3, Fall 2007, pp. 567-592.

Srikrishna Report (http://www.sabrang.com/srikrish/sri%20main.htm).

Black Friday, dir. Anurag Kashyap, 2007

Week Eight: Revision