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This book locates the challenge of criminalization of politics in the electoral politics of India. The flourishing role of money in campaigns has increased the dependence of political parties on the criminal elements of society. The growing use of drugs, alcohol and cash to woo the voters has paved the way for unsavory elements of society to expand their hold on the domain of politics.
Tandoori democracy narrates the story of this process of criminalisation of ...
The 'Punjab problem'--one of the great puzzles of recent social science literature--has intrigued social scientists since the 1980s. Why had one of the richest provinces in the Indian republic, with a fairly progressive population, turned into a political disaster with horrific consequences for civil society? This study by Shinder Purewal seeks to reopen the debate by raising two basic questions: how did the Sikh ethnonationalist movement develop? And why did it ...