ABSTRACT
How do emotions mobilise in politics? How do they frame ideologies? Broadly focusing on these questions, this book explains the role emotions play in Indian politics and the part they played in the aftermath of the 2019 general elections. It traces the consolidation of the Right in India and highlights the reasons for its electoral successes with a focus on the interplay between ethics and emotions such as fear, anxiety, guilt, shame, anger, hatred, betrayal, and violence. At the same time, it traces the changing dynamic in the way we think about politics and analyses the failure of liberal democratic institutions to make space for emotions in politics and political motivations.
An accessible and essential guide to understanding contemporary India, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, especially governance and political theory, as well as South Asian studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction: Majoritarianism and the Afterlife of Populism
part I|47 pages
Politics and Emotions
part II|36 pages
Economy and Ethics
chapter 7|8 pages
Cultural Majoritarianism and Economic (Under) Development
chapter 9|7 pages
Media, Speed, and Untruth
chapter 10|7 pages
Politics, Policy, and Institutions
part III|105 pages
Ethical Emotions?