Books Related to Indian polity

Atul Kohli: Democracy and Discontent: India's Growing Crisis of Governability (1990), Poverty Amid Plenty in the New India, Democracy and Development in India, State-Directed Development, The Success of India's Democracy
Myron Weiner: The politics of scarcity, party building in a new nation - 1967
Sunil Khilnani: Idea of India
Pranab Bardhan: Political Economy of Development in India
Rajani Kothari: State against the people, caste in Indian Politics - 1970 , Politics in India - 1970, Rethinking Democracy - 2005
Partha Chatterjee: The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories
Lloyd and Sussane Rudolph: the modernity of tradition, Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty-Year Perspective, In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the Indian State (Bullock cart capitalism)
Amartya Sen: Collective Choice & Social Welfare, Development as Freedom, The Argumentative Indian , Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny, The Idea of Justice, theory of global Justice
James Manor: politics and state-society relations in india
Sumit Ganguly and Rahul Mukherji: India Science 1980
W.H. Morris-Jones: The Government and Politics in India - 1971, Politics mainly in India - 1978
Granville Austin: "The Indian Constitutions: Cornerstone of a Nation"
Shiva Rao: "The Framing of India's Constitution: A study"
V.P. Menon: "The Transfer of Power in India"
Sisir K Gupta: "Kashmir: A Study in India-Pakistan Relations"
Strobe Talbott: "Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy and the Bomb"

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