Subject(s): Social conditions -- Politics and government. -- Historical Regulation of Power -- Caste and Class -- Sociology of Religion, -- Sociology -- Political and social structure -- Power and territory, Caste and modern politics -- Caste and political groups formation in Tamilnadu -- Historical refiguration of power -- Diversity of ruling traditions -- Construction of colonial power -- Sate and society in India -- Caste and class -- Regime types and economic performance -- Equality: an assessment of India's policy of compensatory discrimination for disadvantaged groups -- Politicization of the peasantry in a north Indian state -- Sociology of identities -- Ethnicity and politics -- Minority identities -- Sociology of political parties -- Karnataka : caste, class, dominance and politics in a cohesive society -- Jana sangh and social interests -- Sociology of religion -- Communalism -- Sikh foundation -- Modernist - secularism -- Sociology of state crisis -- Decline of social order -- Crisis of governability