Overview
- Discusses about providing adequate representation to disadvantaged groups
- Provides an understanding of why women and minorities have not been provided special representation
- Deals with politics of Representation at a time of rightwing and majoritarian ascendancy
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The book presents debates around the concept of representation and how these ideas apply to representation for selected disadvantaged groups in India. It discusses empirical concerns and examines political representation of these disadvantaged groups in post-independence India. The experience of political representation of SCs, STs: the method of election, role of political parties in providing representation, role played by these groups in parliamentary institutions, and the extent of their participation. A second, significant area the volume attempts to cover is representation of the Muslim minority in parliament and state assemblies and understanding the reasons for their under-representation since independence, and more particularly in recent years.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Politics of Representation
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Representation in Electoral Systems and Institutions
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Representation of Religious Minorities
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr Sudha Pai retired as Professor from the Centre for Political Studies and as Rector (Pro-Vice Chancellor) of the Jawaharlal Nehru University in January 2016. She was Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi from 2006 to 2009 and National Fellow of the ICSSR from 2015-2017. Dr Pai was awarded the 2019 Exemplar Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement by the South Asian Studies Association, USA at the South Asian Studies Association Conference at Claremont College Mckenna, Los Angeles, in 2019.
Dr Sukhadeo Thorat is Chairman, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR); former Chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC); and Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has a BA (Milind College of Arts, Aurangabad, Maharashtra), MA in Economics (Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad), MPhil/PhD in Economics (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and Diploma in Economic Planning (Main School of Planning, Warsaw, Poland). His research areas include agricultural development, rural poverty, institution and economic growth, problems of marginalised groups, economics of caste system, caste discrimination and poverty. He was the Director of the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi from 2003 to 2006 and the Research Associate of International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA, since 1992. In 2008 he was awarded the Padmashree in the field of literature and education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics of Representation
Book Subtitle: Historically Disadvantaged Groups in India’s Democracy
Editors: Sudha Pai, Sukhadeo Thorat
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1544-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-1543-7Published: 14 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-1544-4Published: 13 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 288
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Asian Politics, Political Science, Politics and Gender, Development Studies