Edited by Stig Toft Madsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Uwe Skoda

1. Introduction ? Stig Toft Madsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Uwe Skoda; 2. Why Did India Become a Democracy and Why Did It Remain Democratic? A Survey of the Literature and Some Comments to the Scholarly Debate ? Jørgen Dige Pedersen; 3. Democracy in Bangladesh: A Village View ? Arild Engelsen Ruud; 4. Ajit Singh s/o Charan Singh ? Stig Toft Madsen; 5. A Princely Politician in an Indigenized Democracy: A Raja and His Electoral Situation in Rural Orissa 2004 ? Uwe Skoda; 6. A Political Breakthrough for Irrigation Development: The Congress Assembly Campaign in Andhra Pradesh in 2003-2004 ? Pamela Price; 7. Congress Factionalism Revisited: West Bengal ? Kenneth Bo Nielsen; 8. Nepal: Governance and Democracy in a Frail State ? Neil Webster; 9. Entanglement of Politics and Education in Sri Lanka ? Birgitte Refslund Sørensen; 10. Shifting Between the Local and Transnational: Space, Power and Politics in War-Torn Sri Lanka ? Cathrine Brun and Nicholas Van Hear; 11. Domestic Roots of Indian Foreign Policy ? Walter Andersen; 12. Political Practice and Post-Islamism in Pakistan ? Thomas Gugler

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.