Contemporary South Asia, Volume 23, Issue 2 (2015)

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SPECIAL ISSUE ON INDIAN ELECTIONS 2014: EXPLAINING THE LANDSLIDE

Notes on contributors

Notes on Contributors
Pages: 115-116
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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Introduction

Introduction
Indian elections 2014: explaining the landslide
Louise Tillin
Pages: 117-122
Published online: 05 May 2015
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The BJP's return to power: mobilisation, conversion and vote swing in the 2014 Indian elections
Oliver Heath
Pages: 123-135
Published online: 05 May 2015
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India's urban constituencies revisited
Adam Michael Auerbach
Pages: 136-150
Published online: 05 May 2015
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The Modi-centric BJP 2014 election campaign: new techniques and old tactics
Christophe Jaffrelot
Pages: 151-166
Published online: 05 May 2015
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Arvind Kejriwal's leadership of the Aam Aadmi Party
Andrew Wyatt
Pages: 167-180
Published online: 11 Apr 2015
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Regional resilience and national party system change: India's 2014 general elections in context
Louise Tillin
Pages: 181-197
Published online: 05 May 2015
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An Odisha landslide buries both national parties: assessing the state and parliamentary elections of 2014
James Manor
Pages: 198-210
Published online: 05 May 2015
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General elections 2014: ethnic outbidding and politics of ‘homelands’ in Assam's Bodoland
Smitana Saikia
Pages: 211-222
Published online: 07 May 2015
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Book reviews

Book Review
Inhabiting ‘childhood’: children, labour and schooling in postcolonial India
Vijitha Rajan
Pages: 223-224
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a forgotten genocide
Dinesh Kafle
Pages: 224-225
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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Re-thinking India: Perceptions from Australia
Ashutosh Kumar
Pages: 225-227
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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Varieties of secularism in Asia, anthropological explorations of religion, politics and the spiritual
Daniela Bevilacqua
Pages: 227-228
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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Mystical science and practical religion: Muslim, Hindu and Sikh discourse on science and technology
Matjaz Vidmar
Pages: 228-229
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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Dream zones: anticipating capitalism and development in India
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Pages: 230-231
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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Tibet: an unfinished story
Rabindra Mani Pradhan
Pages: 231-232
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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The imperial security state: British colonial knowledge and empire building in Asia
Jonathan Westaway
Pages: 233-234
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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Sacred modernity: nature, environment, and the postcolonial geographies of Sri Lankan nationhood
Alok Pandey
Pages: 234-235
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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A matter of rats – a short biography of Patna
Rajdeep Pakanati
Pages: 235-236
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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The making of a small state: populist social mobilisation and the Hindi press in the Uttarakhand
Arshad Amanullah
Pages: 237-238
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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India: political ideas and the making of a democratic discourse
Pankaj Kumar
Pages: 238-239
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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No exit from Pakistan: America's tortured relationship with Islamabad
Isaac Kfir
Pages: 239-241
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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Eugenic feminism: reproductive nationalism in the United States and India
Gulnaz Sattar
Pages: 241-242
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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South Asia from the margins: echoes of Orissa 1800-2000
Saswat Samay Das & Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha
Pages: 242-243
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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The testimonies of Indian soldiers and the two world wars: between self and the sepoy
Kaushalya Bajpayee
Pages: 243-244
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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Books available for review

Books Received
Books available for review
Pages: 245-248
Published online: 02 Jun 2015
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