TY - BOOK AU - Hasan,Zoya TI - Parties and party politics in India SN - 978-0-19-566833-9 U1 - 324.254 22 PY - 2002/// CY - New Delhi, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Political parties KW - India N1 - Includes indexes; 1. The Congress "System" in India / Rajni Kothari -- 2. Social cleavages, elections, and the Indian party system / Pradeep K. Chibber, John R. Petrocik -- 3. Mrs. Gandhi's pyramid : the new Congress / Stanley A. Kochanek -- 4. The United colours of Congress : social profile of Congress voters, 1996 and 1998 / Anthony Heath, Yogendra Yadav -- 5. The leadership and organization of the Jana Sangh, 1951 to 1967 / B.D. Graham -- 6. A specific party-building strategy : The Jana Sangha and the RSS network / Christophe Jaffrelot -- 7. Anatomy of BJP's rise to power : social, regional, and political expansion in 1990s / Oliver Heath -- 8. The rebirth of the Shiv Sena : the symbiosis of discursive and organizational power / Mary Faisnod Katezenstein, Uday Singh Mehta, Usha Thakkar -- 9. Communist politics in search of hegemony / Javed Alam -- 10. Parliamentary communism as a historical phenomenon : the CPI(M) in West Bengal / Amrita Basu --; -- 11. The Janata phase : reorganization and redirection in Indian politics / Jyotirindra Das Gupta -- 12. Representation and redistribution : the new lower caste politics of North India / Zoya Hasan -- 13. Bringing society back in : ethnicity, populism, and pluralism in South India -- 14. Parties and the party system / James Manor -- 15. The fragmentation of the Indian party system, 1952-1999 / E.Sridharan -- 16. The political parties and the party system : the emergence of new coalitions / Balveer Arora ER -