 | Trysts with Democracy: Political Practice in South Asia This volume offers a collection of lucid, theoretically stimulating articles that explore and analyse the institutions and values which are salient in understanding political practices in South Asia. Combining a wide range of theoretical and empirical approaches, and blending the work of experts long established in their respective fields with refreshing and innovative approaches by younger scholars, this collaborative and cross-disciplinary endeavour facilitates a deeper understanding of the subcontinent's diverse and complex political and democratic practices in the 21st century. Stig Toft Madsen has taught and researched in universities in Denmark and Sweden. Kenneth Bo Nielsen is research fellow at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway. Uwe Skoda is assistant professor of South Asian studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. |
