Companion to Indian Democracy: Resilience, Fragility, Ambivalence (Hardback)

This book,

- presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary experiences of democracy in India. It explores the modes by which democracy as an idea, and as a practice, is interpreted, enforced, and lived in India's current political climate.

- employs 'case studies' as a methodological vantage point to evolve an innovative conceptual framework for the study of democracy in India.

- is a key critical intervention on contemporary politics in South Asia, and will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of political studies, political science, political sociology, comparative government and politics, sociology, social anthropology, public administration, public policy, and South Asia studies.