Rajkamal Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 4169266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajkamal Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajkamal |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Preventive repression
States view protests as disruptive and police them. Scholarship points to selective policing of protests that endanger law and order as well as those organized by minority groups. A common form of protest policing in cities is requiring protestors to obtain permits in advance. We use interviews with protestors and the police in New Delhi to examine their perception of protest policing. We test these perceptions empirically using an original datas…
Organizing a Victory
Suhas Palshikar, Sanjay Kumar and Sanjay Lodha (Eds.), Electoral Politics in India: The Resurgence of the Bharatiya Janata Party. London and New York: Routledge. 2017. 312 pages. ₹995. Ashutosh Kumar and Yatindra Singh Sisodia (Eds.), How India Votes: A State-by-State Look. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan. 2019. 443 pages. ₹1395. Prashant Jha, How the BJP Wins: Inside India’s Greatest Election Machine. New Delhi: Juggernaut Books. 2017. 235 pages. ₹3…
Concentric Clientelism
In this article, we examine the role of intermediaries in sustaining political clientelism in rural Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Drawing from fieldwork and electoral data, we show that clientelism in Saharanpur is based around providing three specific guarantees to the voter—security from or by the police, facilitation in the tehsil and mediation in cases that would otherwise go to court—which we collectively refer to as guardianship. We explain ho…
Concentric Clientelism
In this article, we examine the role of intermediaries in sustaining political clientelism in rural Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Drawing from fieldwork and electoral data, we show that clientelism in Saharanpur is based around providing three specific guarantees to the voter—security from or by the police, facilitation in the tehsil and mediation in cases that would otherwise go to court—which we collectively refer to as guardianship. We explain ho…
Concentric Clientelism
In this article, we examine the role of intermediaries in sustaining political clientelism in rural Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Drawing from fieldwork and electoral data, we show that clientelism in Saharanpur is based around providing three specific guarantees to the voter—security from or by the police, facilitation in the tehsil and mediation in cases that would otherwise go to court—which we collectively refer to as guardianship. We explain ho…
Organizing a Victory
Suhas Palshikar, Sanjay Kumar and Sanjay Lodha (Eds.), Electoral Politics in India: The Resurgence of the Bharatiya Janata Party. London and New York: Routledge. 2017. 312 pages. ₹995. Ashutosh Kumar and Yatindra Singh Sisodia (Eds.), How India Votes: A State-by-State Look. New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan. 2019. 443 pages. ₹1395. Prashant Jha, How the BJP Wins: Inside India’s Greatest Election Machine. New Delhi: Juggernaut Books. 2017. 235 pages. ₹3…
Preventive repression
States view protests as disruptive and police them. Scholarship points to selective policing of protests that endanger law and order as well as those organized by minority groups. A common form of protest policing in cities is requiring protestors to obtain permits in advance. We use interviews with protestors and the police in New Delhi to examine their perception of protest policing. We test these perceptions empirically using an original datas…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · New delhi (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development (1 work)