Parties and party politics in India / edited by Zoya Hasan

Includes annotated bibliography and index.

Introduction : conflict pluralism and the competitive party system in India / Zoya Hassan -- PART I : THE DOMINANCE AND DECLINE OF THE CONGRESS : The congress 'system' in India / Rajni Kothari -- Social cleavages, elections and the Indian party system / Pradeep K. Chhibber and John R. Petrocik -- Mrs Gandhi's pyramid : the new Congress / Stanley A. Kochanek -- The united colors of Congress : social profile of Congress voters, 1996 and 1998 / Anthony Heath And Yogendra Yadav -- PART II : THE RISE AND GROWTH OF HINDU NATIONALIST POLITICS : The leadership and organization of the Jana Sangh, 1951 to 1967 / B. D. Graham -- A specific party-building strategy : the Jana Sangha and the RSS network / Christopher Jaffrelot -- Anatomy of BJP's rise to power : social, regional, and political expansion in 1990s / Oliver Heath -- The rebirth of the Shiv Sena : the symbiosis of discursive and organizational power / Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Uday Singh Metha and Usha Thakkar -- PART III : RADICAL POLITICS AND LEFT PARTIES : Communist politics in search of hegemony / Iaveed Alam -- Parliamentary communism as a historical phenomenon : the CPI(M) in West Bengal / Amrita Basu -- PART IV : SOCIAL DIVERSITY AND PARTY : The Janata phase : reorganization and redirection in Indian politics / Jyotirindra Das Gupta -- Representation and redistribution : the new lower caste politics of north India / Zoya Hasan -- Bringing society back in : ethnicity, populism, and pluralism in south India / Narendra Subramanian -- PART V : POLITICAL COMPETITION AND TRANSFORMATION OF THE PARTY SYSTEM : Parties and the party system / James Manor -- The fragmentation of the India party system, 1952-1999 / E. Sridharan -- The political parties and the party system : the emergence of new coalition / Balveer Arora