Yogi Adityanath

Yogi Adityanath

Author: SHARAT. PRADHAN

Publisher: Penguin Enterprise

Published: 2022-04-15

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780143442431

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Is he the next Prime Minister in the making? He is young and dynamic. He is a fierce orator and is often perceived as unconventional. Most importantly, he is an incredibly popular politician in India. Is Yogi Adityanath India's next Prime Minister in the making? His unprecedented rise in the Bharatiya Janata Party and his over-the-top campaigns and displays of his photograph along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's on billboards, among many other moves, seem to suggest his political ambition. Tracing his early life, entry into electoral politics and elevation to the position of the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, this book evaluates many untold stories of Yogi Adityanath. Sifting through information on the Chief Minister's out-of-the-box administrative skills; his claims on law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh; and handling of the COVID-19 crisis in the first and the second waves of the pandemic, the authors present to us what is probably the first critical biography of Yogi Adityanath.


Monk to Majesty

Monk to Majesty

Author: B. K. Chaturvedi

Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

Published: 2018-03-08

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 935278863X

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When Crime Pays

When Crime Pays

Author: Milan Vaishnav

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2017-01-01

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0300216203

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The first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian politics In India, the world's largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic processes exist alongside rampant criminality? Why do political parties recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? Why are one-third of state and national legislators elected--and often re-elected--in spite of criminal charges pending against them? In this eye-opening study, political scientist Milan Vaishnav mines a rich array of sources, including fieldwork on political campaigns and interviews with candidates, party workers, and voters, large surveys, and an original database on politicians' backgrounds to offer the first comprehensive study of an issue that has implications for the study of democracy both within and beyond India's borders.


Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India

Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India

Author: Amrita Basu

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-06-30

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 1316300188

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This book is a pioneering study of when and why Hindu Nationalists have engaged in discrimination and violence against minorities in contemporary India. Amrita Basu asks why the incidence and severity of violence differs significantly across Indian states, within states, and through time. Contrary to many predictions, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has neither consistently engaged in anti-minority violence nor been compelled by the centrifugal pressures of democracy to become a centrist party. Rather, the national BJP has alternated between moderation and militancy. Hindu nationalist violence has been conjunctural, determined by relations among its own party, social movement organization, and state governments, and on the character of opposition states, parties and movements. This study accords particular importance to the role of social movements in precipitating anti-minority violence. It calls for a broader understanding of social movements and a greater appreciation of their relationship to political parties.


Animosity at Bay

Animosity at Bay

Author: Pallavi Raghavan

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 0190087579

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A fresh, unconventional look at the early post-partition years, suggesting that cooperation rather than conflict was the order of the day between India and Pakistan.


Modi's India

Modi's India

Author: Christophe Jaffrelot

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2023-04-11

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 0691247900

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A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first in Gujarat and then in India at large. Modi managed to seduce a substantial number of citizens by promising them development and polarizing the electorate along ethno-religious lines. Both facets of this national-populism found expression in a highly personalized political style as Modi related directly to the voters through all kinds of channels of communication in order to saturate the public space. Drawing on original interviews conducted across India, Christophe Jaffrelot shows how Modi's government has moved India toward a new form of democracy, an ethnic democracy that equates the majoritarian community with the nation and relegates Muslims and Christians to second-class citizens who are harassed by vigilante groups. He discusses how the promotion of Hindu nationalism has resulted in attacks against secularists, intellectuals, universities, and NGOs. Jaffrelot explains how the political system of India has acquired authoritarian features for other reasons, too. Eager to govern not only in New Delhi, but also in the states, the government has centralized power at the expense of federalism and undermined institutions that were part of the checks and balances, including India's Supreme Court. Modi's India is a sobering account of how a once-vibrant democracy can go wrong when a government backed by popular consent suppresses dissent while growing increasingly intolerant of ethnic and religious minorities.


Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires

Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires

Author: William R. Pinch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-03-17

Total Pages: 13

ISBN-13: 0521851688

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This 2006 book is an innovative study of warrior asceticism in India from the 1500s to the present.