Democracy and Unity in India: Understanding the All India Phenomenon, 1940–1960

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction:
Becoming All India
	Naming All India
	Crisis of unity and fundamental similarity
	Democracy debates
	The expectation of unity in democracy
	Belonging, minority, and citizenship in democracy
	Unity and nation-ness
	On the meaning of democracy
	Notes
Chapter 2: Naming caste politics: All India Scheduled Castes Federation’s politics of Indian unity
	Naming the constituency
	Against untouchability
	Separating unity and singularity
	Complicated constituencies: Dissent and difference within the All India Scheduled Castes Federation
		Affirming an All India commitment
	Conclusion: Advancing negotiated unity
	Notes
Chapter 3: Democracy, voice, and principle: The political life of the All India Scheduled Castes Federation
	The politics of minority
	Caste minority politics
	Building an Indian democracy
		Who defines minority?
		Acknowledging minority
		Separate electorates and the All India Scheduled Castes Federation
	Voice: On speaking and being heard
	Principle: Defining ethical minority
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 4: All India women: Citizenship politics of the All India Women’s Conference
	Federating Indian women’s advocacy and politics
	Local women’s work, national women’s work, and All Indian women’s citizenship
		Reading women’s productive citizenship
		Making social work into political advocacy
		Political activism outside of political parties
	After independence: Local work, national advocacy, and the All India Women’s Conference
		Recovering women for the government
		Disciplining Indian women’s participatory citizenship
		Hindu Code Bill politics
	Conclusion: Locating citizenship
	Notes
Chapter 5: Conclusion: A national history of “anti-national” dissent
	On difference, dissent, and being anti-national
	Urban Naxals, Indian familyism, and a twenty-first-century crisis of unity
		Urban Naxal: Branding dissent as national threat
		Indian familyism: Shaming women’s politics
	Bringing gender and caste together
	Reading internal minorities in and out of the national story
	Notes
Bibliography
	Archival sources
	Published sources
Index