LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES ix
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xiii
FOREWORD: Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph: Partners in Political Science and Indian Studies xv
Francis W. Hoeber

I Introduction
1. Politics as Interpretation
John Echeverri-Gent and Kamal Sadiq

II Interpretative Approaches to Political Analysis
2. Situated Knowledge, the Construction of Meaning, and Political Action: A Framework for Interpretative Political Analysis
John Echeverri-Gent and Kamal Sadiq
3. Interpretivism in Motion: Discursive Institutionalism as the Fourth 'New' Institutionalism
Vivien A. Schmidt
4. A Different Way of Seeing Things: The Intellectual Legacy of Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph
Kristen Renwick Monroe

III Caste, Class, and the 'Lived Experience' of Political Mobilization
5. Dominant Castes, from Bullock Capitalists to OBCs? The Impact of Class Differentiation in Rural India
Christophe Jaffrelot and Kalaiyarasan A.
6. Does Class Matter in Politics? Rethinking 'Conditions and Reasons'
Rina Agarwala and Ronald Herring
7. Interpreting the Political Economy of the Indian State: Culture, Inequality, and the Conceptual Possibilities of In Pursuit of Lakshmi
Leela Fernandes

IV The State, Leadership, and Political Change
8. From Gandhi to Modi: Enlisting the Rudolphs to Understand Charismatic Leadership
Amrita Basu
9. In Pursuit of Saraswati: The Politics of Autonomy in the Indian University
Niraja Gopal Jayal
10. Civil-Military Relations and Democratic Stability
Steven I. Wilkinson
11. Centrism, Political Leadership, and the Future of Indian Politics
John Echeverri-Gent and Kamal Sadiq

INDEX
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