Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics by Zoya Hasan

Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics by Zoya Hasan

Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics examines the immense changes that have occurred in Indian politics over the past decade and its impact on the Indian National Congress. The impact is most apparent in the changing fortunes of the Congress party, which suffered two major defeats in 2014 and 2019 elections, bringing the party's crisis to the front and centre of public debate. This book seeks to understand the reasons for these enormous changes by looking first at the underlying conditions that led to the decline of the Congress and, second, the challenges' both external and internal' confronting the Congress and, while doing so, estimating its impact on Indian politics and on the Congress. More specifically, it looks at how important ideological debates provoked by the rise of majoritarianism, the Gujarat model, hypernationalism, the secular retreat, and the curbs and restrictions on the opposition influenced Congress. Exploring ideological shifts and organizational limits that shaped the decline of the Congress makes a compelling case for the significance of the Congress story in understanding the larger political transformation underway in India. The argument centers on the Congress party, but comparatively speaking, it has relevance for the experience of centrist and centre-left parties in other countries, which too suffered a decline in the context of the upsurge of populist nationalism and right-wing politics in the past few years. Analysis of political change in India in the past decade affords insights into the processes of transformation and polarization that grounded the Congress party and centrist parties in other countries as well.

This book presents a substantial contribution to the scholarship in Indian politics focusing on the rise of the BJP and the replacement of the Indian variant of secularism with Hindutva nationalism* Rahul Mukherji, Professor and Head at the Department of Political Science, and Director, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany. *
Given that there is almost a complete void in the study of the Congress party in Indian politics, this work fills a major void. I find it a very valuable piece of work. * S. Mujibur Rehman, Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSIP), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. *

Zoya Hasan is Professor Emerita, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University and former Dean of the School of Social Sciences, JNU. She is currently Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi.

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ISBN 13	9780192863416
ISBN 10	019286341X
Title	Ideology and Organization in Indian Politics
Author	Zoya Hasan
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	2022-08-23
Number of pages	216
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