Book Reviews

Chandra K. (2004). Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India. New York, Cambridge University Press.

Hansen T. B. Stepputat F. (Eds.) (2005). Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants and States in the Postcolonial World. Princeton University Press.

Jaffrelot C. (2003). India’s Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Lower Castes in North India. London: Hurst.

Jaffrelot C. Vernier G. (2014). Lawmakers and law-breakers: Why crime data on legislators and electoral candidates must be carefully unpacked. The Indian Express, 2 July.

Jeffrey C. (2010). Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Michelutti L. . (2018). Mafia Raj: the Rule of Bosses in South Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Piliavsky A. Sbricolli T. (2016). The ethics of efficacy in north India’s goonda raj (rule of toughs). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22(2), 1–19.

Price P. (1996). Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

SDSA Team. (2008). State of Democracy in South Asia. A Report. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Shastri S. Palshikar S. Kumar S. . (2017). State of Democracy in South Asia. Report II. Jain University Press.