Yogendra K. Malik

Hindu nationalists in India : the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party

Ideology, power and political parties the BJP - its heritage, ideology and leadership strategies - collaboration, allegiances, cooperation and confrontation policies and issue orientations organization, decisionmaking and support groups electoral performances - national and state levels performance of the BJP Government in UP - a case study.

Democracy and Alienation in North India

v Revised version of a paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2-4, 1972. The authors would like to thank S. M. Sud, Ram Pal Vidyalankar, and R. C. Chaudhary for their valuable assistance in administering the questionnaires in their colleges. We would also like to thank Arnold J. Heidenheimer for his helpful comments and Paul A. Weidner for his continuing co-operation in completing this project.

Indira Gandhi: Personality, Political Power and Party Politics

Marxists depict Indira Gandhi as a representative of the capitalist class who used populist rhetoric to advance the interests of the ruling elites. While following a psycho-analytical approach, the non-Marxist group attributes Indira Gandhis drive for power to her early adolescent experience. A realistic assessment is possible by stressing the interaction between personality and social milieu. Decline of middle class idealism, ascendance of amoral politics and the rise of new social groups helped Indira Gandhi to personalize political power through the use of different ideological symbols and slogans. In this process she wrecked the Congress party, repudiated the longstanding practice of inter-party democracy and drove the opposition parties and regional leaders to adopt confrontationist politics leaving behind a fractured polity.