The Political System Of India Constitutes One Of The Core Papers Of Political Science In The Various Indian Universities, As It Examines And Analyses The System Of Government And Administration Existing In India. The Government And Administration Of India, Present Hurdlesome And Insurmountable Problems, Both For The People And The Administrators And In Their Meaningful Solution Lies The Stability And The Viability Of The Various Institutions And The Ultimate Development Of The Country. India Has Basically Followed The British Parliamentary Model And Most Of The Institutions Associated With Such A System Have Been Adopted. India Has A Federal System And The Nature Of Its Dual Polity, Written Constitution And Judicial Supremacy, Provide Special Dimensions To The Political System. Keeping In View The Changes In The Study Of The Subject Topics Like Prressure Groups, Political Parties, Factional Politics And The Politics Of Casteism, Regionalism, Linguism And Communalism Have Been Discussed. The Controversy Over Centre-State Relations Have Caused Great Tension For The Political System. Critical Reflections Are Made On This Aspect As Federalism In India Is On The Anvil. This Book Is Meant For Students Who Seek A Meaningful Introduction To The Governmental System And The Political Process In India.

Today, regional parties in India win nearly as many votes as national parties. In Why Regional Parties?, Professor Adam Ziegfeld questions the conventional wisdom that regional parties in India are electorally successful because they harness popular grievances and benefit from strong regional identities. He draws on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative evidence from over eighteen months of field research to demonstrate that regional parties are, in actuality, successful because they represent expedient options for office-seeking politicians. By focusing on clientelism, coalition government, and state-level factional alignments, Ziegfeld explains why politicians in India find membership in a regional party appealing. He therefore accounts for the remarkable success of India's regional parties and, in doing so, outlines how party systems take root and evolve in democracies where patronage, vote buying, and machine politics are common.

This study constitutes an analysis of factionalism between rival groups in the dominant Congress Party in Maharashtra. The principal question examined is whether a politician's decision to oppose or 'rebel against' party authority is determined or can be predicted by certain characteristics of the individual concerned and his environment (e.g. the amount of land he owns, or the level of education, urbanization, prosperity, etc., of the area in which he operates politically). About 160 Congress Party members on four district councils were interviewed, and their answers provided the main source of information for the analysis. The legally defined jurisdiction of the district councils is rural Maharashtra, and the political factions examined thus operate in a rural milieu.

The essays in this book compare and analyze political processes in eight states within the Indian Union. A long introductory chapter by Myron Weiner sets the stage for individual studies of each state by separate scholars, namely: Myron Weiner (MIT) on Political Development in the Indian States; Paul H. Brass (University of Washington) on Uttar Pradesh; Wayne Wilcox (Columbia University) on Madhya Pradesh; Ram Joshi ( S.I.E.S. College, Bombay) on Maharashtra; Balraj Puri (Editor, Kashmir Affairs) on Jammu and Kashmir Marcus F. Franda (Colgate University) on West Bengal; Lawrence L. Shrader (Mills College ) on Rajasthan; Hugh Gray (University of London) on Andhra Pradesh; and Baldev Raj Nayar (McGill University) on Punjab. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.