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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: algebra of warfare-welfare
    sub title: a long view of India's 2014 election
  name:
    name part: Ahmad, Irfan
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Kanungo, Pralay
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ii
    date issued: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxiv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Electoral democracy combines the ideas and practices of warfare and welfare, where both work in tandem as near synonyms. India's robust electoral democracy exemplifies this combination in diverse forms. Critically analyzing the 2014 Parliamentary elections beyond the seduction of immediacy and bare cold statistics, this book puts human subjectivity at the center of election studies and, through an anthropological-sociological approach, makes lives, human and non-human, lived and unlived or unlivable, central to any understanding of elections and democracy. Crafting a new, comprehensive approach, this volume looks at the 2014 elections in relation to the changing nature and forms of elections and democracy globally. Coming from multidisciplinary backgrounds, the contributors to this volume use ethnographic observations to open up a space for new theoretical and methodological reflections on the role of media in Indian elections, the shift to the right in 2014 and its consequences, the significance of traditional Hindu spaces such as the river Ganga in BJP's victory, the role of gurus like Baba Ramdev, and the electoral choices available to and exercised by the minorities, among others.
  table of contents: List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations. Introduction: democracy and the algebra of warfare-welfare / Irfan Ahmad -- Democracy as rumour: media, religion, and the 2014 Indian elections / Irfan Ahmad -- Modi and the spectre of terrorism: crafting the Hindutva icon / Manisha Sethi -- Gurus and the Hindu nationalist politics: the Baba Ramdev-BJP Partnership in the 2014 elections / PRalay Kanugo -- The Gujarat model and the right-wing shift in 2014 / Zoya Hasan -- Communal violence, electoral polarization, and Muslim representation: Muzaffarnagar, 2013-14 / Hilal Ahmed -- Does space matter in electoral democracy?: Analysing Mother Ganga's "call" to the BJP's prime ministerial candidate / Bikramaditya Kumar Choudhary -- Caste and cultural icons: BJP's politics of appropriation in Tamil Nadu / R. Thirunavukkarasu -- Hindutva's reach out to Muslims in the 2014 elections: a historical analysis / Mohammad Reyaz -- Media, corporates, and democracy: lessons from the 2014 general elections / Sudhir Pattnaik -- On the ground: the unfolding of the 2014 general election campaign / Patrick French -- Unity in diversity: democracy and manifestos in the 2014 Indian elections / Irfan Ahmad -- On studying elections and democracy: a conversation with T.K. Oommen / R. Thirunavukkarasu. Afterword -- NOtes on editors and contributors -- Index.
  note: edited by Irfan Ahmad and Pralay Kanungo.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: India.
      name part: Parliament.
      name part: Lok Sabha
    topic: Elections, 2014
  subject:
    topic: Elections
    geographic: India
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    geographic: India
  subject:
    geographic: India
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 2014-
  classification: JQ294 .A655 2019
  classification: 324.954
  identifier: 9780199489626
  identifier: 0199489629
  identifier: 2018276688
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190729
    record change date: 20200117105444.0
    record identifier: in00004082513