Representing India: Ethnic Diversity and the Governance of Public Institutions

ISBN-13: 9781403986122 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 239 str.

Professor Niraja Gopal Jayal

Opis

This is a study of how ethnic diversity is represented in public institutions in India, and of the politics and policy solutions devised to manage ethnic inequalities. With new data on representational patterns in parliament and cabinet, it provides an account of representation that encompasses the diversity of caste, tribe and religion. Emphasising the overlapping nature of social and economic inequalities in India, it seeks to place the issue of material disadvantage at the very heart of the debate on ethnic and cultural inequality.

Spis treści

List of Tables List of Abbreviations Preface; N.G.Jayal Preface; T.Mkandawire Acknowledgements Representing India: Democracy and Diversity Mapping Diversity in India Managing Diversity: Institutions, Policies and Politics Promoting Diversity and Protecting the Vulnerable Negotiating Diversity: Parties and the Electoral System Representing Diversity in the Institutions of Governance Conclusion Appendix Notes References Index

O autorze

NIRAJA GOPAL JAYAL is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her books include Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (1999), Drought, Policy and Politics in India (1993) and Democracy in India (2001).