Subject(s): Indian Politics and government -- Political participation in India. -- India and Social conditions ,1947 -- Models and Methods of Social Change in Flawed Paradigms, Paradoxes of Power,De-secularising the State, Cast and Politics -- Politics and Social Process in Elections in Rural India, Equality and Reservation, Local Elites and Politics, Cultural Nationalism, Indian national congress, -- State and Social Change in Democracy and Power, Institutionalisation of Power, Crisis and Resilience in Indian Democracy