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The political outsider : Indian democracy and the lineages of populism
- Title
- The political outsider : Indian democracy and the lineages of populism / Srirupa Roy.
- Author
- Roy, Srirupa
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]
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Details
- Description
- ix, 362 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old. But it is equally a place where criticisms of actually existing democracy are intense and strident. In recent years, the trope of victimized people suffering at the hands of a predatory elite and political dysfunction has reaped rewards. The populist language of redemptive outsiders who will combat a corrupt system has been harnessed in successful electoral campaigns, such as the majoritarian regime of Narendra Modi. Tracking the shift from postcolonial nation-building to democracy-rebuilding, Srirupa Roy shows how the political outsider came to be a valorized figure of late-twentieth century Indian democracy, tasked with the urgent mission of curing a broken democratic system - what Roy terms "curative democracy." Drawing attention to an ambivalent political field that folds together authoritarian and democratic forms and ideas, Roy argues that the long 1970s were a crucial turning point in Indian politics, when democracy was suspended by the declaration of a national emergency and then subsequently restored. By tracing the crooked line that connects the ideals of curative democracy and the political outsider to the populist antipolitics and strongman authoritarian rule in present times, this book revisits democracy from India, and asks what the Indian experience tells us about the trajectory of global democratic politics"--
- Series Statement
- South Asia in motion
- Uniform Title
- South Asia in motion.
- Alternative Title
- Indian democracy and the lineages of populism
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : curative democracy and the political outsider -- New politics -- Transformational media -- The long emergency -- Outsider agency -- Crooked lines.
- Call Number
- JFE 24-1021
- ISBN
- 9781503636460
- 1503636461
- 9781503637986
- 1503637980
- 9781503637993 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2023020626
- OCLC
- 1378431103
- Author
- Roy, Srirupa, author.
- Title
- The political outsider : Indian democracy and the lineages of populism / Srirupa Roy.
- Publisher
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- South Asia in motionSouth Asia in motion.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1977
- Other Form:
- Online version: Roy, Srirupa. Political outsider. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2024 9781503637993 (DLC) 2023020627
- Research Call Number
- JFE 24-1021