India's vision - and the BJP's

Current History

Volumn 98, Issue 632, 1999, Pages 422-426

  Stuligross, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Asian Survey   (United States)

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1. The newspapers reported on the substance of the speech; Arun Swamy convincingly recorded the audience's disinterest. See Arun Swamy, "The Nation, the People, and the Poor: Sandwich Tactics in Party Competition and Policy Formation, India, 1931-1996," Ph.D. dissertation (Berkeley: University of California, Department of Political Science, 1996).
2. These include promulgation of a common civil code for all Indians (currently, members of each religion are bound by laws - such as marriage, divorce, and inheritance - informed by their own religious traditions); a common degree of autonomy for all states (currently, for reasons associated with the terms of accession at independence, the state of Jammu and Kashmir has considerably more budgetary and policy autonomy than other states); and erection of a Hindu temple on a disputed site in Ayodhya (although it is hard to detect any broad, nation-building principle behind this agenda item).
3. See Arun Swamy, "Parties, Political Identities, and the Absence of Mass Political Violence in South India," in Amrita Basu and Atul Kohli, eds., Community Conflicts and the State in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 108-148.