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323.01 ZUC Natural rights and the new republicanism | 323.042 FRE Why it's ok to ignore politics | 323.0420951 MOH Grass-roots democracy in India and China : the right to participate | 323.0420954 MIT Hailing the state : Indian democracy between elections | 323.09 MOY Last Utopia : human rights in history | 323.092 FLO I see the promised land | 323.0954 SRI In pursuit of proof : a history of identification documents in India |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In Hailing the State, Lisa Mitchell explores the methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government administrators accountable, demand inclusion in decision making, and stage informal referendums. Mitchell traces the colonial and postcolonial lineages of collective forms of assembly, in which participants-rather than rejecting state authority-mobilize with expectations that officials will uphold the law and fulfill electoral promises. She shows how assembly, which ranges from sit-ins, hunger strikes, and demands for meetings with officials to massive general strikes and road and rail blockades, is fundamental to the functioning of democracy in India. These techniques are particularly useful for historically marginalized groups and others whose voices may not be easily heard. Moving beyond an exclusive focus on electoral processes, Mitchell argues that to understand democracy-both in India and beyond-we must also pay attention to what occurs between elections, thereby revising understanding of what is possible for democratic action around the world.
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