Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Biographic Data
| ID | 745149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pratap Bhanu Mehta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pratap Bhanu |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehta |
| SIGNATURE | MEHTA P B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Hindu Nationalism: From Ethnic Identity to Authoritarian Repression
This article reflects on the relationship between Hindu nationalism and democracy and how the former emerges from within democracy only to subvert it. The essay outlines important conceptual issues in the relationship between Hindu nationalism and democracy, discusses the relationship between the idea of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ and ‘Hindu Rajya’, and delves into the complex interplay between Hindu nationalism and caste. This article ultimately argues t…
Locating Indian Constitutionalism
This chapter explores the historical commitment to the idea of constitutionalism and how the framers understood India’s constitutional project. It begins with an overview of the concept of ‘constitutional morality’ as it relates to the Indian Constitution, along with the cosmopolitan character of Indian constitutionalism. It then considers some of the tensions that have characterised constitutional law in India, with particular emphasis on some o…
The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution
"The Indian Constitution is one of the world's longest and most important political texts. Its birth, over six decades ago, signalled the arrival of the first major post-colonial constitution and the world's largest and arguably most daring democratic experiment. Apart from greater domestic focus on the Constitution and the institutional role of the Supreme Court within India's democratic framework, recent years have also witnessed enormous compa…
Do New Democracies Support Democracy? Reluctant India
What role will human rights and democracy play in India’s foreign policy? On the level of principle and ideology, at least, there is a potential for India to become a beacon for democracy, but to what extent will democracy and human rights actually become high-level items on India’s foreign-policy agenda? The likelihood is that India will continue to display a strong commitment the democratic ideals, but will do so without making democracy promot…
India: Governance and Growth in State Capacity
ONE OF THE BIG GOVERNANCE puzzles over the last few decades has been this: Representative government is not always responsive government. Indeed, some have argued that "smart" authoritarian governments have been more responsive to their citizens, at least as far as economic well-being is concerned, because the only source of legitimacy they have is performance. Regimes in democratic countries, by contrast, derive their legitimacy from a process: …
Still Under Nehru's Shadow? The Absence of Foreign Policy Frameworks in India
Going in Two Directions in South Asia
The maturity and sophistication of the Indo-us relationship are such that both countries will be able to tolerate differences, while simultaneously strengthening the sinews of their interdependence
Globalization and India's Sense of Itself
Research Article| April 01 2007 Globalization and India's Sense of Itself Pratap Bhanu Mehta Pratap Bhanu Mehta Pratap Bhanu Mehta is president of the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi. He is the author of The Burden of Democracy (Penguin, 2003). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (2007) 106 (699): 186–187. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2007.106.699.186 Views Icon Views Article contents …
India’s Unlikely Democracy: The Rise of Judicial Sovereignty
India’s courts have been playing a growing role in the country’s political life. Defenders of the judiciary often focus on the few success stories that result from judicial decisions. Yet there is a glaring lack of concrete, empirical data on the effects of court intervention. Courts can proclaim new rights as much as they want, but the proclamation of rights by itself does not produce results. Judges have an important role to play in strengtheni…
World Religions and Democracy: Hinduism and Self-Rule
This article explores the complicated relationship between Hinduism and Democracy. It argues that modern Hinduism proved receptive to democratic ideals because democracy provided one plausible solution to the riddle of authority that beset Hinduism in the course of attempts to reform it. The article describes the ways in which Hindu nationalism poses a threat to democracy, and the resources Hindus can draw upon to resist this threat
The burden of democracy
Empire and Moral Identity
Justifications and criticisms of empire have often focused on the effects of empire on imperial “subjects.” But an older criticism of empire equally focuses upon the way the possession of empire transforms the identity of the imperial state itself by altering its constitution, implicating its people in projects that happen elsewhere, and forcing them to define their relationship to applications of power in a radically new way. On this view the re…
Grading the President
Macharia Gaitho, Wang Jisi, Jiri Pehe, , Mohammed Al-Jassem, Dimitri K. Simes, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Karim Raslan, Christoph Bertram, Grading the President, Foreign Policy, No. 137 (Jul. - Aug., 2003), pp. 28-41
Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism . Brian Barry
Cosmopolitanism and the Circle of Reason
What I require is a convening of my culture's criteria, in order to confront them with my words and life as I pursue them and as I may pursue them; and at the same time to confront my words and life as I pursue them with the life my culture's words may imagine for me: to confront the culture with itself, along the lines it meets in me. Stanley Cavell
India in 1998: The Travails of Political Fragmentation
Research Article| January 01 1999 India in 1998: The Travails of Political Fragmentation Devesh Kapur, Devesh Kapur Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pratap Bhanu Mehta Pratap Bhanu Mehta Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1999) 39 (1): 163–176. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645606 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Da…
India
Essay| December 01 1998 India: The Nuclear Politics of Self-Esteem Pratap Bhanu Mehta Pratap Bhanu Mehta Pratap Bhanu Mehta is an associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1998) 97 (623): 403–406. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1998.97.623.403 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data P…
Ethnicity, Nationalism and Violence in South Asia
India: Fragmentation Amid Consensus
India: Fragmentation Amid Consensus Pratap B. Mehta (bio) In the wake of the general elections of April and May 1996, the Indian political scene presents a paradoxical combination of party fragmentation amid ideological consensus on major matters of policy, especially in the economic realm. The elections marked a watershed in that the right-wing Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the single largest party in Parliament for the first tim…
Pluralism after liberalism
John Gray argues that the doctrine of value pluralism poses a serious challenge for liberalisms of the Rawlsian and Millian kind. The only proper political doctrine that is compatible with value pluralism is a modus vivendi that can take various forms. But in truth, value pluralism does little to diminish the appeal of liberalism. Under modern conditions, any half‐decent modus vivendi will look more like liberalism than Gray supposes
Government and Politics in South Asia
Foundations of India's Political Economy: Towards an Agenda for the 1990s
Introduction - Subroto Roy and William E James The State of Governance - James Manor Language, Religion and Politics - Paul R Brass Problems of Federal Leadership - Bhagwan Dua Planning and Foreign Trade Reconsidered - T N Srinivasan A Memorandum to the Government of India 1955 - Milton Freidman Fiscal Finance and Money Supply - Amaresh Bagchi Economics of Food and Agriculture - Kalanidhi Subbarao Nutrition and Health - Anil Deolalikar Historical…
Diversity and Dominance in Indian Politics. Volume 2: Division, Deprivation and the Congress
India's Disordered Democracy
Cosmopolitanism and the Circle of Reason
What I require is a convening of my culture's criteria, in order to confront them with my words and life as I pursue them and as I may pursue them; and at the same time to confront my words and life as I pursue them with the life my culture's words may imagine for me: to confront the culture with itself, along the lines it meets in me. Stanley Cavell
India’s Unlikely Democracy: The Rise of Judicial Sovereignty
India’s courts have been playing a growing role in the country’s political life. Defenders of the judiciary often focus on the few success stories that result from judicial decisions. Yet there is a glaring lack of concrete, empirical data on the effects of court intervention. Courts can proclaim new rights as much as they want, but the proclamation of rights by itself does not produce results. Judges have an important role to play in strengtheni…
Hindu Nationalism: From Ethnic Identity to Authoritarian Repression
This article reflects on the relationship between Hindu nationalism and democracy and how the former emerges from within democracy only to subvert it. The essay outlines important conceptual issues in the relationship between Hindu nationalism and democracy, discusses the relationship between the idea of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ and ‘Hindu Rajya’, and delves into the complex interplay between Hindu nationalism and caste. This article ultimately argues t…
Do New Democracies Support Democracy? Reluctant India
What role will human rights and democracy play in India’s foreign policy? On the level of principle and ideology, at least, there is a potential for India to become a beacon for democracy, but to what extent will democracy and human rights actually become high-level items on India’s foreign-policy agenda? The likelihood is that India will continue to display a strong commitment the democratic ideals, but will do so without making democracy promot…
Still Under Nehru's Shadow? The Absence of Foreign Policy Frameworks in India
India: Fragmentation Amid Consensus
India: Fragmentation Amid Consensus Pratap B. Mehta (bio) In the wake of the general elections of April and May 1996, the Indian political scene presents a paradoxical combination of party fragmentation amid ideological consensus on major matters of policy, especially in the economic realm. The elections marked a watershed in that the right-wing Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the single largest party in Parliament for the first tim…
World Religions and Democracy: Hinduism and Self-Rule
This article explores the complicated relationship between Hinduism and Democracy. It argues that modern Hinduism proved receptive to democratic ideals because democracy provided one plausible solution to the riddle of authority that beset Hinduism in the course of attempts to reform it. The article describes the ways in which Hindu nationalism poses a threat to democracy, and the resources Hindus can draw upon to resist this threat
India: Governance and Growth in State Capacity
ONE OF THE BIG GOVERNANCE puzzles over the last few decades has been this: Representative government is not always responsive government. Indeed, some have argued that "smart" authoritarian governments have been more responsive to their citizens, at least as far as economic well-being is concerned, because the only source of legitimacy they have is performance. Regimes in democratic countries, by contrast, derive their legitimacy from a process: …
Empire and Moral Identity
Justifications and criticisms of empire have often focused on the effects of empire on imperial “subjects.” But an older criticism of empire equally focuses upon the way the possession of empire transforms the identity of the imperial state itself by altering its constitution, implicating its people in projects that happen elsewhere, and forcing them to define their relationship to applications of power in a radically new way. On this view the re…
Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism . Brian Barry
India in 1998: The Travails of Political Fragmentation
Research Article| January 01 1999 India in 1998: The Travails of Political Fragmentation Devesh Kapur, Devesh Kapur Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pratap Bhanu Mehta Pratap Bhanu Mehta Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1999) 39 (1): 163–176. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645606 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Da…
Pluralism after liberalism
John Gray argues that the doctrine of value pluralism poses a serious challenge for liberalisms of the Rawlsian and Millian kind. The only proper political doctrine that is compatible with value pluralism is a modus vivendi that can take various forms. But in truth, value pluralism does little to diminish the appeal of liberalism. Under modern conditions, any half‐decent modus vivendi will look more like liberalism than Gray supposes
India's Disordered Democracy
Diversity and Dominance in Indian Politics. Volume 2: Division, Deprivation and the Congress
Foundations of India's Political Economy: Towards an Agenda for the 1990s
Introduction - Subroto Roy and William E James The State of Governance - James Manor Language, Religion and Politics - Paul R Brass Problems of Federal Leadership - Bhagwan Dua Planning and Foreign Trade Reconsidered - T N Srinivasan A Memorandum to the Government of India 1955 - Milton Freidman Fiscal Finance and Money Supply - Amaresh Bagchi Economics of Food and Agriculture - Kalanidhi Subbarao Nutrition and Health - Anil Deolalikar Historical…
Government and Politics in South Asia
India: Fragmentation Amid Consensus
India: Fragmentation Amid Consensus Pratap B. Mehta (bio) In the wake of the general elections of April and May 1996, the Indian political scene presents a paradoxical combination of party fragmentation amid ideological consensus on major matters of policy, especially in the economic realm. The elections marked a watershed in that the right-wing Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the single largest party in Parliament for the first tim…
Pluralism after liberalism
John Gray argues that the doctrine of value pluralism poses a serious challenge for liberalisms of the Rawlsian and Millian kind. The only proper political doctrine that is compatible with value pluralism is a modus vivendi that can take various forms. But in truth, value pluralism does little to diminish the appeal of liberalism. Under modern conditions, any half‐decent modus vivendi will look more like liberalism than Gray supposes
India
Essay| December 01 1998 India: The Nuclear Politics of Self-Esteem Pratap Bhanu Mehta Pratap Bhanu Mehta Pratap Bhanu Mehta is an associate professor of government and social studies at Harvard University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1998) 97 (623): 403–406. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1998.97.623.403 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data P…
Ethnicity, Nationalism and Violence in South Asia
India in 1998: The Travails of Political Fragmentation
Research Article| January 01 1999 India in 1998: The Travails of Political Fragmentation Devesh Kapur, Devesh Kapur Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pratap Bhanu Mehta Pratap Bhanu Mehta Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (1999) 39 (1): 163–176. https://doi.org/10.2307/2645606 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Da…
Cosmopolitanism and the Circle of Reason
What I require is a convening of my culture's criteria, in order to confront them with my words and life as I pursue them and as I may pursue them; and at the same time to confront my words and life as I pursue them with the life my culture's words may imagine for me: to confront the culture with itself, along the lines it meets in me. Stanley Cavell
Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism . Brian Barry
The burden of democracy
Empire and Moral Identity
Justifications and criticisms of empire have often focused on the effects of empire on imperial “subjects.” But an older criticism of empire equally focuses upon the way the possession of empire transforms the identity of the imperial state itself by altering its constitution, implicating its people in projects that happen elsewhere, and forcing them to define their relationship to applications of power in a radically new way. On this view the re…
Grading the President
Macharia Gaitho, Wang Jisi, Jiri Pehe, , Mohammed Al-Jassem, Dimitri K. Simes, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Karim Raslan, Christoph Bertram, Grading the President, Foreign Policy, No. 137 (Jul. - Aug., 2003), pp. 28-41
World Religions and Democracy: Hinduism and Self-Rule
This article explores the complicated relationship between Hinduism and Democracy. It argues that modern Hinduism proved receptive to democratic ideals because democracy provided one plausible solution to the riddle of authority that beset Hinduism in the course of attempts to reform it. The article describes the ways in which Hindu nationalism poses a threat to democracy, and the resources Hindus can draw upon to resist this threat
Globalization and India's Sense of Itself
Research Article| April 01 2007 Globalization and India's Sense of Itself Pratap Bhanu Mehta Pratap Bhanu Mehta Pratap Bhanu Mehta is president of the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi. He is the author of The Burden of Democracy (Penguin, 2003). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (2007) 106 (699): 186–187. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2007.106.699.186 Views Icon Views Article contents …
India’s Unlikely Democracy: The Rise of Judicial Sovereignty
India’s courts have been playing a growing role in the country’s political life. Defenders of the judiciary often focus on the few success stories that result from judicial decisions. Yet there is a glaring lack of concrete, empirical data on the effects of court intervention. Courts can proclaim new rights as much as they want, but the proclamation of rights by itself does not produce results. Judges have an important role to play in strengtheni…
Going in Two Directions in South Asia
The maturity and sophistication of the Indo-us relationship are such that both countries will be able to tolerate differences, while simultaneously strengthening the sinews of their interdependence
Still Under Nehru's Shadow? The Absence of Foreign Policy Frameworks in India
India: Governance and Growth in State Capacity
ONE OF THE BIG GOVERNANCE puzzles over the last few decades has been this: Representative government is not always responsive government. Indeed, some have argued that "smart" authoritarian governments have been more responsive to their citizens, at least as far as economic well-being is concerned, because the only source of legitimacy they have is performance. Regimes in democratic countries, by contrast, derive their legitimacy from a process: …
Do New Democracies Support Democracy? Reluctant India
What role will human rights and democracy play in India’s foreign policy? On the level of principle and ideology, at least, there is a potential for India to become a beacon for democracy, but to what extent will democracy and human rights actually become high-level items on India’s foreign-policy agenda? The likelihood is that India will continue to display a strong commitment the democratic ideals, but will do so without making democracy promot…
The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution
"The Indian Constitution is one of the world's longest and most important political texts. Its birth, over six decades ago, signalled the arrival of the first major post-colonial constitution and the world's largest and arguably most daring democratic experiment. Apart from greater domestic focus on the Constitution and the institutional role of the Supreme Court within India's democratic framework, recent years have also witnessed enormous compa…
Locating Indian Constitutionalism
This chapter explores the historical commitment to the idea of constitutionalism and how the framers understood India’s constitutional project. It begins with an overview of the concept of ‘constitutional morality’ as it relates to the Indian Constitution, along with the cosmopolitan character of Indian constitutionalism. It then considers some of the tensions that have characterised constitutional law in India, with particular emphasis on some o…
Hindu Nationalism: From Ethnic Identity to Authoritarian Repression
This article reflects on the relationship between Hindu nationalism and democracy and how the former emerges from within democracy only to subvert it. The essay outlines important conceptual issues in the relationship between Hindu nationalism and democracy, discusses the relationship between the idea of a ‘Hindu Rashtra’ and ‘Hindu Rajya’, and delves into the complex interplay between Hindu nationalism and caste. This article ultimately argues t…
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