Indian politics and the 1998 election : regionalism, Hindutva, and statepolitics / edited by Ramashray Roy and Paul Wallace.

A collection of 13 analytical papers by Indian, American, and Canadian scholars published on the eve of the 13th General Election slated for September 1999.

India's 1998 election: Hindutva, the tail wags the elephant, and Pokhran/ Paul Wallace -- Party competition and fragmentation in Indian national elections: 1957-1998 / Pradeep Chhibber and Irfan Nooruddin -- Post-congress politics in Uttar Pradesh: the ethnification of the party system and it consequences / Kanchan Chandra -- The 1998 general election: the janus-faced policies of the BJP and religious mobilization at the district level in Uttar Pradesh / Virginia vanDyke -- Split the votes and win the election: an analysis of the 12th Lok Sabhaelection in Bihar / Binoy Shanker Prasad -- The 12th Lok Sahba election in Maharastra: the congress alliance defeats the BJP/Shiv Sena / Sikata Banerjee -- The12th general election in Karnataka: the BJP achieves its Southern beachhead / Harold A. Gould -- Regime change and shifting social bases: the Telegu Desam party in the 12th general election / Karli Srinivasulu -- Orissa: the fall of the congress fortress / Ramashray Roy -- Conflicting ambitions in Goa's parlia