CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. TABLES AND FIGURES vi
4. PREFACE TO THE 1990 EDITION vii
5. PREFACE ix
6. List of Invited Participants at the Conference on "India's Democracy," held at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, March 14-16,1985 xi
7. FOREWORD xiii
8. INTRODUCTION. Interpreting India's Democracy: A State- Society Framework 3
9. ONE. Political Leadership in India: Dimensions and Limits 18
10. TWO. Parties and the Party System 62
11. THREE. The Military and Indian Democracy 99
12. FOUR. Ethnicity, Democracy and Development in India: Assam in a General Perspective 144
13. FIVE. The Punjab Crisis and the Unity of India 169
14. Six. Dominant Proprietary Classes and India's Democracy 214
15. SEVEN.Middle Classes and Castes in India's Politics: Prospects for Political Accommodation 225
16. EIGHT. Grass-Roots Mobilization in Indian Politics 262
17. CONCLUSION. State-Society Relations in India's Changing Democracy 305
18. EPILOGUE. India's Democracy under Rajiv Gandhi, 1985-1989 319
19. CONTRIBUTORS 335
20. PUBLICATIONS OF THE CENTER OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES 337
21. INDEX 343