2020–21 POLITICS 1 1 Pg Pg Pg 20 08 32 Dealing with Diversity Capturing Institutional The Naga Ethnic A Study in Contemporary Change: The Case of the Movement for a Liberalism Right to Information Act Separate Homeland in India Domenico Melidoro Namrata Goswami Himanshu Jha 9780190121136 9780190121174 9780190124786 Pg Pg Pg 46 46 46 The Political Economy Political Economy of Political Economy of of Hunger Hunger Hunger Vol. 1: Entitlement and Vol. 2: Famine Vol. 3: Endemic Hunger Prevention Well-being Jean Drèze and Jean Drèze and Jean Drèze and Amartya Sen Amartya Sen Amartya Sen 9780198865513 9780198865483 9780198865766 1 2 Table of Contents Indian Political Thought ............................. 05 Indian Foreign Policy .................................. 05 Indian Government & Politics / Nature of the State / Democracy / Nationalism...... 08 Political Institutions / Politics and Law in India ................................................ 11 Political Processes. ..................................... 13 Politics of Welfare and Development ......... 17 Politics of Gender ....................................... 17 Comparative Politics .................................. 17 Global Politics / International Relations. ..... 19 Public Administration / Political Anthropology / Political Economy .............. 30 Political History .......................................... 34 Series: Media Dynamics In South Asia. ....... 36 Series: Critical Global Thought ................... 36 Media and Politics ...................................... 36 Series: The Oxford Series on India-China Studies / India-China Relations ................... 38 Oxford India Short Introductions................ 39 Series: Oxford International Relations in South Asia .................................................. 41 Space and Politics. ...................................... 43 Exclusive Titles ........................................... 45 Global Titles ............................................... 46 Price List. .................................................... 67 Global Titles at Local Prices ........................ 78 Key Contacts .............................................. 93 Welcome to the Spring/Summer 2020 Politics Catalogue. If you are interested in licensing any of our titles, please contact the representative for your territory (see back cover) for more information. ISBN: 9780190125011 Pub Date: 2020 Binding: Hardback Price: `1,695 In careers that spanned six decades, Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph’s rigorous and remarkably empathetic scholarship produced seminal insights about India’s politics. With a profound grasp of social science theory and Indian politics, they developed an interpretive mode of political analysis centred on the complex processes by which people construct meaning and motivation for political action. This volume’s eminent authors pay tribute to the Rudolphs’ scholarship by examining its contribution to their own cutting-edge research as they advance the frontiers of the study of Indian politics and social science writ large. Their engaging essays analyse how ‘situated knowledge’ shapes discourse, moral imagination, political strategies, and institutional change. They illuminate how the interaction of caste, class, gender, and religion structures political mobilization; how changing social and political relations affect education policy and civil– military relations; and how political leadership is forging the future of politics in India John Echeverri-Gent (ed.) is associate professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia, USA. Kamal Sadiq (ed.) is associate professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine, USA. 4 INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHTS / INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY INDIAN POLITICAL THOUGHTS Dr Ambedkar and Democracy Our Brotherhood Now is a Distant Dream An Anthology Sudhir Kakar is a leading figure in the Christophe Jaffrelot (ed.) is professor fields of cultural psychology and the of indian politics and sociology at the psychology of religion, as well as a King’s India Institute, and research novelist. director at the Centre National de Including an autobiographical la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), introduction of Sudhir Kakar’s France; Narendra Kumar (ed.) is encounter with Gandhi and professor, Centre for Political Studies, memories of the Partition with School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal personal and familial histories, this Nehru University, New Delhi, India. collection brings together the noted The book discusses Ambedkar’s idea psychoanalyst’s essays on Gandhi of democracy. He was known to be written over the years. Using a mix concerned with the governance of of methods such as psychoanalysis, the country after the colonial rule creative fiction, gender studies, and came to an end. However, his idea of auto-writing, the work focuses on several aspects of Gandhi’s democracy is not only reflected in his postcolonial writings but life, philosophy, and times. also in the writings submitted by him to the British from 1919 till 1946–7 and also before and during his engagement with the Forthcoming Constituent Assembly. This book includes the original writings such as the memorandums, speeches, lectures, and so on, of Ambedkar from 1919–1956. 9780199483167 | 2018 | Hardback | `950 Gandhi After 9/11 Creative Nonviolence and Sustainability Douglas Allen is professor and To view other subjects former chairperson of philosophy at the University of Maine, USA. catalogue visit 9/11 marked the beginning of a century that is defined by widespread violence. Every other day seems https://india.oup.com/ to be a furthering of the already Academic_Catalogue catastrophic present towards a more disastrous tomorrow. With climate change looming over us, frequent economic instability, religious wars, and relentless political mayhem, life for what we have made of it seems more and more unsustainable. Douglas Allen insists that we look to Gandhi, if only selectively and creatively, in order to move towards a nonviolent and sustainable future. Is a Gandhi-informed swaraj technology, valuable but humanly limited, possible? What would a Gandhian world—a more egalitarian, interconnected, decentralized—of globalization look like? Focusing on key themes in Gandhi’s thinking such as violence and nonviolence, absolute truth and relative truth, ethical and spiritual living, and his critique of modernity, the book compels us to rethink our positions today. 9780199491490 | 2018 | Hardback | `950 e-Book available 5 1 INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY Art Attacks Violence and Offence Taking in India Malvika Maheshwari teaches political science at Ashoka University, Haryana, India. Since the end of the 1980s in India, self-styled representatives of a variety of ascriptive groups—religious, caste, regional, and linguistic— have been routinely damaging artworks, disrupting their exhibition, and threatening and assaulting For more artists and their supporters. Often, these acts are claimed to be a information protest against allegedly ‘hurtful’ or ‘offensive’ artworks, wherein its regularity and brazenness has led regarding to an intensifying sense of fear, frustration, and anger within the art world. Art Attacks tells the story of this phenomenon Politics titles and maps the concrete political transformations that have informed the dynamic unfolding of violent attacks on artists. Based on extensive interactions with offence-takers, assailants, visit and artists, the author argues that these attacks are not simply ‘anti-democratic’ but are dependent in perverse ways on the very logics of democracy’s functioning in India. 9780199488841 | 2018 | Hardback | `1,195 https://india. e-Book available oup.com/section/ academic/politics/ Power and Diplomacy India’s Foreign Policies during the Cold War Zorawar Daulet Singh is an author and foreign affairs analyst based in New Delhi. He is a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. This book recovers another layer of India’s strategic culture that had been largely lost to history. The author not only reconstructs the world views and strategies that underlay geopolitics during the Nehru and Indira Gandhi years, but also illuminates the dramatic transformation in India’s foreign policy and how policymakers redefined some of their most fundamental precepts on India’s role in the subcontinent and the extended Asian neighbourhood. All the crises examined in this book will resonate with the present because they each also speak to contemporary questions regarding a specific facet of India’s foreign policy, such as crafting sustainable equations with competing great powers, formulating an intelligent policy towards Pakistan, dealing with China’s rise and the attendant power flux in Asia, and responding to the Sino-American crisis 9780199489640 | 2018 | Hardback | `995 e-Book available 1 6 INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY INDIAN FOREIGN POLICY Indian Diplomacy Does India Negotiate? Beyond Strategic Autonomy Karthik Nachiappan writes and Rajendra M. Abhyankar teaches consults on global governance issues at the School of Public and with a focus on rising powers such as Environmental Affairs, Indiana India and China. University, Bloomington, USA. In this book, Karthik Nachiappan How has India’s foreign policy investigates how India negotiates evolved in the seventy years since international rules focusing on four Independence? For that matter, what agreements, covering issues like is the country’s foreign policy? And climate change, nuclear disarmament, what are the aspects that determine tobacco