Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 'Yes, but not in the South': the BJP, Congress, and regional parties in South India -- 2 India's foreign policy and Hindutva: the new impact of culture and identity on the formulation and practice of Indian foreign policy 2014-2017 -- 3 Allegories of 'love jihad' and ghar wapsi: interlocking the socio-religious with the political -- 4 Understanding the BJP's victory in Uttar Pradesh -- 5 Election 2014 and the battle for India's soul -- 6 Collapse of the Congress party -- 7 Explaining the inconvenient truths of Indian political behaviour: Hindutva, Modi, and Muslim voters in 2014 -- 8 The dance of democracy: election 2014 and the marginalised and minorities -- 9 Aam Aadmi Party's electoral performance in Punjab: implications for an all India political scenario -- 10 The 'people' and the 'political': Aam Aadmi and the changing contours of the anti-corruption movement -- 11 The 2014 national elections from the margins of modern India -- 12 Big national parties in West Bengal: an exceptional outcast? -- 13 National elections in a tribal state: the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in Meghalaya -- 14 Electoral politics in Jammu and Kashmir (J & K) and the problem of communal polarisation -- 15 Lok Sabha elections in (un)divided Andhra Pradesh: issues and implications in Telangana and Seemandhra -- 16 An inquiry into the causes and consequences of the saffron whirlwind that swept Uttar Pradesh in the 2017 Assembly election -- Index