Indian democracy : the historical inheritance / Sumit Sarkar -- India's federal design and multicultural national construction / Jyotirindra Dasgupta -- Center-state relations / James Manor -- Making local government work : local elites, panchayati raj and governance in India / Subrata K. Mitra -- Redoing the constitutional design : from an interventionist to a regulatory state / Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- The dialectics of Hindu nationalism / Amrita Basu -- The struggle for equality : caste in Indian politics / Myron Weiner -- Sharing the spoils : group equity, development, and democracy / Pranab Bardhan -- Social movement politics in India : institutions, interests, and identities / Mary Katzenstein, Smitu Kothari, and Uday Mehta.