State Politics in Contemporary India

This volume examines Indian states as analytical units, culminating in a comprehensive socio-political study of the country as a whole. The state-specific essays underline the federal context in which politics in India unfolds at the ground level. Employing a federalist and centrist analytical prism, this book aims to add to the existing body of work on state politics, with a particular focus on India in the last decade, which has shown visible shifts in political terms. It delineates the narrat