Politics in South Asia Culture, Rationality and Conceptual Flow
The book introduces central themes that have preoccupied the field of South Asian politics over the last few decades and identifies new, emerging areas of research. Presenting both general political theory and context-specific case studies, the collection
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Siegfried O. Wolf • Jivanta Scho¨ttli • Dominik Frommherz • Kai Fu¨rstenberg • Marian Gallenkamp • Lion Ko¨nig • Markus Pauli Editors
Politics in South Asia Culture, Rationality and Conceptual Flow
Editors Siegfried O. Wolf Jivanta Scho¨ttli Dominik Frommherz Kai Fu¨rstenberg Marian Gallenkamp Lion Ko¨nig Markus Pauli Abteilung Politikwissenschaft Su¨dasien-Institut Heidelberg Germany
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Foreword
After receiving his initial academic training in India, Subrata Mitra’s career included numerous positions in Europe and the United States and reached a culmination point during the 20 years of tremendous intellectual activity at Heidelberg’s South Asia Institute (SAI). Although the Political Science of South Asia as a separate discipline had been taught at the SAI since its founding in 1962, the arrival of Mitra as Professor and head of the department turned the subject into a driv
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