Interpreting Politics: Situated Knowledge, India, and the Rudolph Legacy

Contents: LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. FOREWORD: Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph: Partners in Political Science and Indian Studies/Francis W. Hoeber I Introduction 1. Politics as Interpretation/John Echeverri-Gent and Kamal Sadiq.

II Interpretative Approaches to Political Analysis. 2. Situated Knowledge, the Construction of Meaning, and Political Action: A Framework for Interpretative Political Analysis/John Echeverri-Gent and Kamal Sadiq 3. Interpretivism in Motion: Discursive Institutionalism as the Fourth 'New' Institutionalism/Vivien A. Schmidt 4. A Different Way of Seeing Things: The Intellectual Legacy of Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph/Kristen Renwick Monroe.

III Caste, Class, and the 'Lived Experience' of Political Mobilization 5. Dominant Castes, from Bullock Capitalists to OBCs? The Impact of Class Differentiation in Rural India/Christophe Jaffrelot and Kalaiyarasan A. 6. Does Class Matter in Politics? Rethinking 'Conditions and Reasons/Rina Agarwala and Ronald Herring 7. Interpreting the Political Economy of the Indian State: Culture, Inequality, and the Conceptual Possibilities of In Pursuit of Lakshmi/Leela Fernandes.

IV The State, Leadership, and Political Change 8. From Gandhi to Modi: Enlisting the Rudolphs to Understand Charismatic Leadership/Amrita Basu 9. In Pursuit of Saraswati: The Politics of Autonomy in the Indian University/Niraja Gopal Jayal 10. Civil-Military Relations and Democratic Stability/Steven I. Wilkinson 11. Centrism, Political Leadership, and the Future of Indian Politics/John Echeverri-Gent and Kamal Sadiq. INDEX.EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS.