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Trysts with Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia

by Stig Toft Madsen , Kenneth Bo Nielsen , Uwe Skoda
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780857287731
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Anthem Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Anthem Press
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  • Pages: 324
  • Original Price: GBP 70.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 645 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Political Process / General

This volume addresses the current configuration of democratic politics in South Asia from a cross-disciplinary perspective. The essays seek to examine the larger questions of how democratic values are embedded in social and political institutions, and how localised and everyday political values inform the multiple ways in which democracy is understood and practised. One of the strengths of this collection is the fact that it does not seek to provide answers to these questions from within one academic discipline only, but rather brings together scholars with backgrounds in a variety of social science disciplines and the humanities.

A number of allied questions and engaging debates emerge throughout the book. How may we distinguish between democracy's formal and less-than-formal dimensions in the context of South Asia? How do notions of kinship, kingship and community tie in with larger processes of democratic politics and deepening political mobilisation? How do people construe the political in a context where the sphere of the religious seemingly seamlessly overlaps with the political, where the political cannot be separated from the social, and where the boundaries between state and society are blurred? How do people practically engage with the political and with democratic processes at a local level - and what might democracy mean in the vernacular?

Stig Toft Madsen has taught and researched in universities in Denmark and Sweden.

Kenneth Bo Nielsen is research fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway.

Uwe Skoda is assistant professor of South Asian studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.

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