List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction PART ONE 1.Tocqueville in India; 2. Society v. State; 3. Society as Caste, Caste as Society; 4.The Unassuming Revolution; 5.The State as an Autonomous Actor PART TWO THE FOUR CORNERS OF INDIA 6. Tocqueville Travels to Bihar; 7.Turmoil In A Forward State; 8.Tamil Nadu- A Nation in the Making; 9. Kerala, A Society That is “Civil” 10. A Mid-Journey Session PART THREE POLITICS, POWER AND POLITY 11. Yet They Vote; 12. Is India a Nation? 13. The Empire of Democracy; 14. Democracy and Discrimination; 15. Religions and Secularism 16. The Highest Good
FRENCH WRITINGS ON INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA
"Tocqueville was, of course, a famous world traveler. Though, like Marx, he never visited India, also like Marx this did not deter him from writing about it with remarkable insight. Jean Alphonse Bernard has, of course, visited India and imagined what Tocqueville would have perceived had he done so. He has, in this innovative way, cast a fresh light on both the fantasies about and the realities of contemporary Indian political life." Paul Brass
Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Relations, University of Washington, Seattle