Political Psychology : Indian Perspective

Contents: I. Conceptual and methodological:1. Political psychology: an introduction/H.S. Asthana. 2. Objectives of the seminar/H.S. Asthana. 3. Relationship between psychology and political science/A. Avasthi. 4. Methods and techniques of political psychology/Rajnarain. 5. A coneptual model for political modernization in India/Dharma Vir. II. Voting behaviour: 6. Voting behaviour in India/V.M. Sirsikar. 7. Personality and voting behaviour/M.R. Rastogi. 8. Social psychological correlates of voting behaviour/V. Agarwal. III. Leadership: 9. Emerging patterns of rural leadership/B. Kuppuswamy. 10. Gandhi\'s leadership: a psychobiographical interpretation/G.D. Rastogi. 11. U.P. legislator\'s preference for party leaders: a study in q methodology/Vimla Agarwal and Purnima Agarwal. 12. Attitude towards political leader/N. Mishra. 13. Authoritarnism and social prejudice in political perspective/V.K. Kool. IV. Images: 14. Changing political images of Indira Gandhi: a psychological study/V. Shrivastava. V. Alienation and affiliation: 15. Time perspective, alienation and political affiliation/A. Agarwal. 16. Modernity : western concept and Indian experience: a note on alienation/A.K. Singh. VI. Defection: 17. Risk-taking in defecting legislators/P. Agarwal and S.C. Goel. VII. Groups and parties: 18. Muslim Indians and political minorities/M.R. Khan. 19. Social psychology of political parties/R.P. Shrivastava. VIII. Modal personality: 20. Explorations in Indian modal personality/T.S. Dhapola. 21. Nation building in Singapore/P. Misra. IX. Violence and peace: 22. World peace-psychological perspective/Q. Hasan. 23. Personal reflections on acquiring peace/P. Gupta. 24. Violence and non-violence: an attributional analysis/S. Kanekar. Glossary. Bibliography.