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Governance by Stealth The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Making of the Indian State

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

02.02.2022

Verlag

Oxford Academic

Seitenzahl

472

Maße (L/B/H)

22,4/15,2/3,3 cm

Gewicht

606 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-946048-9

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

02.02.2022

Verlag

Oxford Academic

Seitenzahl

472

Maße (L/B/H)

22,4/15,2/3,3 cm

Gewicht

606 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-946048-9

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Governance by Stealth

    • Chapter One

    • Governance by stealth, and, the making of India's Home Ministry

    • Home's distinctive character

    • Is governance by stealth an elite conspiracy?

    • Why India? Order-making as State Formation: the 'Missing Link'

    • Raj to Swaraj: Poachers into gamekeepers

    • Ministers and civil servants: the Janus-face of the Indian state

    • Home: The 'charlady' of the government, and more

    • Independence and the ordeal of post-colonial chaos

    • Structure of the narrative

    • Sources, and the method of analysis

    • Contributions of the book and its limitations

    • Chapter Two

    • Governance as process: Colonial legacy, hybrid norms, and institutional arrangement

    • Colonial Order: Appropriation and re-use of Indian culture

    • The Structure of colonial power and its orderly unravelling

    • Norms of governance by stealth and the post-colonial challenge

    • Post-colonial Democracy and a dynamic, neo-institutional model of governance

    • What holds India's political system together?

    • Chapter Three

    • The Sentinel of Order: Home - origin, evolution, functions and structure

    • Imperial rule and Home's functional niche

    • Origin and evolution

    • From Department to Ministry (1947)

    • The functions and Structure of the Ministry (1948)

    • The internal architecture of the Ministry: Allocation of Business Rules (1961)

    • Organization of the Ministry

    • The 'new look' charlady: Home - balancing authority, accountability and compliance

    • Chapter Four

    • Politicians, civil servants and post-colonial Governance: Continued synergy, despite role reversal

    • Regime Change, with seamless continuity

    • The challenge of leadership: Synergy of ministers and secretaries

    • Ministerial leadership

    • Bureaucracy: the 'Old Faithful' of Indian politics

    • Ministers and Secretaries: Conflicting loyalties?

    • PM- HM- HS: An Incompatible triad?

    • Chapter Five

    • Home at work: Re-shaping public services and integrating national territory

    • Public Order and Public Services: dual challenges for the Home Ministry

    • The challenge of re-shaping the civil service

    • Recasting the colonial civil service in a national mould

    • Post-partition trauma, and building of an Indian nation

    • Integration by stealth: Princely states and the dilemma of Independence

    • Junagarh

    • Hyderabad

    • Jammu and Kashmir State

    • Generous in victory: Patel stoops to conquer!

    • On to the 'promised land', with Home

    • Chapter Six

    • Setting the Mould: Home and the 1950s

    • Setting the political agenda: The Congress 'system', Home Ministry and the 1950s

    • Public services

    • Reorganisation of the Machinery of Government

    • Nehru and Patel: a tense duopoly

    • Home at work: creation of new, innovative institutions

    • The 1950s' harvest: Embryonic norms and policy outcomes of the 'new' politics

    • The 1950s: Institutionalization of governance by stealth

    • Chapter Seven

    • Home, beyond the foundational decade: Manifest decline, resilient frame

    • 1960s and the beginning of governmental instability: Home under pressure

    • Self-portrait of the Ministry, 1960-61

    • Indo-China border war, 1962: unintended consequences for the MHA

    • The growing hiatus of politics and administration: facing the uncertainty of the 1970s

    • Special measures during emergency

    • Revoking Emergency: Home, redux?

    • The 1980s: A decade of 'deinstitutionalization'

    • India's 1984: Home at its nadir

    • Beyond the Foundational Decade: Home's complex trajectory

    • Chapter Eight

    • Holding the state together: The Ministry of Home Affairs and India's 'unity in diversity'

    • The 'rational' politics of cultural nationalism and the danger of 'Balkanization'

    • Surreptitious integration: Regulating public holidays

    • Censorship

    • Mediation in contesting claims over regional boundaries

    • Engaging insurgency through peace initiatives

    • Creation of sub-States

    • 'Colonization' of Union Territories

    • Institutional innovation: Reorganisation of JandK militia

    • President's rule: MHA and Indian States

    • Punjab: limited success, despite President's rule

    • India's 'Unity in Diversity', with a little help from Home's silken threads

    • Chapter Nine

    • Governing the sacred: Home and the quest for collective identity

    • Sacred spaces and colonial power

    • The Devaswom Board: A colonial innovation

    • Religion, post-independence: fundamental right and fundamental cause of political strife

    • Home, and evolution of a national language policy

    • Combatting 'Communalism' through the Project of 'National Integration'

    • After Ayodhya riot (1992), what kept Bhiwandi quiet?

    • Accommodating regional and sectional identities within the modern state

    • Continuing relevance of language and religion as issues in Indian politics

    • Chapter Ten

    • Ultima ratio regum: Force in the making of legitimacy

    • The forceful state: Home's fire power

    • The gathering and processing of intelligence

    • Legitimate force? An Indian dilemma

    • The 'Liberation' of Goa, 1961

    • Force, bound by law

    • Policing the police: Lessons of the PAC (UP) revolt, 1973

    • Legitimate force? Democracy's conundrum

    • Chapter Eleven

    • Home stymied: The Emergency regime, 1975-77, and its aftermath

    • Orderly rule, emergency and due process: A symbiotic triad

    • Carl Schmitt: the role of the sovereign in an emergency

    • The Political context of the Emergency

    • The Janata Interlude (1977-79): Home and the middle ground between orderly rule and anti-emergency zealotry

    • Emergency as conundrum: Home's cruel dilemma

    • Home: Orderly rule and the legacy of the 1970s

    • Chapter Twelve

    • When Home Fails: Compliance and Contestation in a post-colonial state

    • Assessing compliance: Three analytic narratives

    • Ayodhya: demolition of the Babri mosque

    • Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir

    • Maoist movements (LWE)

    • Norms of governance by stealth reconsidered

    • -loss of elite consensus and its impact on compliance

    • -High efficacy and low trust, and non-compliance

    • Home on the mend

    • Rupture of orderly rule in India: cumulative or diminishing?

    • Conclusion

    • The Reason of State: Governance by Stealth, and beyond

    • Home at work

    • The logic of appropriateness and grey areas of governance

    • The reason of state and the ambiguity of power

    • Liberal Politics in an illiberal context: Home's challenge

    • Re-enchanting the state

    • Still the 'steel frame'?