Subject(s): State governments -- Federal government -- Politics and government in India 1947 -- Party System -- Political process: Dominance -- Political process: Resistance -- Passive revolution -- Institutions : parties and the party system -- Indian Elections 1952-1995 -- State assemblyelections 1993-1995 -- Bureaucracy -- Centre-state relation on Indian politics -- Development planning and the Indian state -- Local politics in India -- Culture and subaltern consciousness : MGR phenomenon -- Rise of dalits and the renewed debate on caste -- India's minorities -- Political subnationalism -- Protecting women against violence