Interpreting politics situated knowledge, India, and the Rudolph legacy Echeverri-Gent, John editor. Sadiq, Kamal editor. text bibliography Electronic books. ii 2020 2020 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) This text investigates how people construct meaning and motivation for political action. Building on Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph's seminal scholarship of India, it develops the concept of situated knowledge to argue that people's capacity to empathize and dehumanize as well as their engagement in ongoing discourses and ideational power shape their political action. The volume illuminates contemporary Indian politics by showing how political leadership can transform people's understandings and cause dramatic political transformation. I. Introduction -- 1. Politics as Interpretation / Kamal Sadiq -- II. Interpretative Approaches to Political Analysis -- 2. Situated Knowledge, the Construction of Meaning, and Political Action: A Framework for Interpretative Political Analysis / Kamal Sadiq -- 3. Interpretivism in Motion: Discursive Institutionalism as the Fourth `New' Institutionalism / Vivien A. Schmidt -- 4. Different Way of Seeing Things: The Intellectual Legacy of Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph / Kristen Renwick Monroe -- III. Caste, Class, and the `Lived Experience' of Political Mobilization -- 5. Dominant Castes, from Bullock Capitalists to OBCs? The Impart of Class Differentiation in Rural India / A. Kalaiyarasan -- 6. Does Class Matter in Politics? Rethinking `Conditions and Reasons' / Ronald Herring -- 7. Interpreting the Political Economy of the Indian State: Culture, Inequality, and the Conceptual Possibilities of In Pursuit of Lakshmi / Leela Femandes -- IV. State, Leadership, and Political Change -- 8. From Gandhi to Modi: Enlisting the Rudolphs to Understand Charismatic Leadership / Amrita Basu -- 9. In Pursuit of Saraswati: The Politics of Autonomy in the Indian University / Niraja Gopal Jayal -- 10. Civil-Military Relations and Democratic Stability / Steven I. Wilkinson -- 11. Centrism, Political Leadership, and the Future of Indian Politics / Kamal Sadia. Specialized. specialized edited by John Echeverri-Gent and Kamal Sadiq. This edition also issued in print: 2020. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-ii--- Rudolph, Lloyd I Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Lloyd I Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber India Social conditions India Economic conditions India Politics and government 1947- Inde Conditions sociales Inde Conditions économiques Inde Politique et gouvernement 1947- Economic history Politics and government Social conditions India Since 1947 fast HN683.5 .I574 2020eb HN683.5 .I58 2020 320.954 9780190991296 0190991291 9780190125011 0190125012 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/31909 AU@ 200916 20260319182932.9 in00005719304 eng