symposium participants

• The Problem
  Posed by Tanweer Fazal, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• MAHAGATHBANDHAN: VICTORY AGAINST THE ODDS
  K.K. Kailash, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad

• HOW THE GRAND ALLIANCE WON
  Rahul Verma, associated with Lokniti-CSDS; PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley and Sanjay Kumar, Director, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN
  Sarthak Bagchi, PhD candidate, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, Leiden

• THE RISE, DECLINE AND REVIVAL OF THE RJD
  Adnan Farooqui, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi

• THE MESSAGE IN THE BANDOBAST
  Saba Naqvi, author and journalist, Delhi

• MUSLIMS BETWEEN THE COMMUNAL-SECULAR DIVIDE
  Mohammad Sajjad, Associate Professor, Centre of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh

• CASTE AND ASPIRATION IN BIHAR
  Poornima Joshi, Political Editor, 'Hindu Business Line', Delhi

• MIGRANT SPEAK
  Tanweer Fazal, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• BIHAR AND THE NATION
  Dhrub Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

• SOCIAL CONTESTATION IN POST-1977 BIHAR
  Chirashree Das Gupta, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

• RESURRECTING THE STATE
  Shaibal Gupta, Member Secretary, Asian Development Research Institute, Patna

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Mahtab Alam, Abhay Kumar, Ufaque Paiker and L. David Lal

• FURTHER READING
  A select and relevant bibliography complied by Abhay Kumar, Research Scholar, Centre for Historical Studies, JNU, Delhi

• IN MEMORIAM
  Susanne Hoeber Rudolph 1930-2015

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