India Votes

Preface -- The Ninth General Election: The Hung Parliament -- Introduction: The Ninth General Election -- Patterns of Political Mobilization in the Parliamentary and Assembly Elections of 1989 and 1990 -- Local Support Bases and the Ninth General Election in Bihar and Maharashtra1 -- The Janata Dal in the Ninth Indian General Election of 1989 and Its Future Prospects -- Caste, Class, and Community in the Ninth General Elections for the Lok Sabha in Uttar Pradesh -- The Regionalization of Indian Electoral Politics 1989-90: Punjab and Haryana -- The Media and Cultural Politics -- Women’s Politics and Land Control in an Indian Election: Lasting Influences of the Freedom Movement in North Bihar1 -- The Linkages Between Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy in the Ninth Indian General Election -- Politics After Rajiv -- Introduction to Part Two -- Alliance Politics and Minority Government: India at the Polls, 1989 and 1991 -- Participation in India’s Tenth General Election1 -- The Rise of the BJP and the Future of Party Politics in Uttar Pradesh -- Mandal, Mandir, and Dalits: Melding Class with Ethnoreligious Conflict in India’s Tenth General Election -- Violence, Agrarian Radicalism, and the Audibility of Dissent: Electoral Politics and the Indian People’s Front1 -- Defining Women’s Politics in the Election of 1991 in Bihar1 -- India’s 1991 Elections: Regional Factors in Haryana and Punjab -- The Salience of National Issues in the Tenth General Election in West Bengal -- Why Rajiv Gandhi’s Death Saved the Congress: How an Event Affected the Outcome of the 1991 Election in India