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Table of contents :
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Part I: The Geography of Elections
Geography of Elections: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (p. 31)

The Case for Ecological Analysis of Electoral Behaviour in India (p. 83)

On the Problem of Unit of Analysis (p. 114)

Part II: Cleavages and Parties
The Cleavage Model of Politics: Parties - A Review (p. 127)

Social Cleavages and the Indian Party System (p. 142)

Indian Political Parties and the Party System (p. 170)

Party Politics and Electoral Behaviour from Independence to the 1980s (p. 194)

Part III: Minorities and Disadvantaged Sectors
Electoral Politics of the Muslim Vote (p. 261)

Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as Factors in the Electoral Politics of India (p. 288)

Part IV: Some Theoretical Issues
The World-Systems Theory of Elections and the Case of Liberal Democracy in India (p. 309)

On the Nature of North-South Division in the Electoral Politics of India (p. 326)

Voting Preferences in State vis-a-vis National Elections under a Federal System (p. 340)

What Maintains Liberal Democracy in India (p. 366)

Part V: Quantitative Electoral Geography
Quantitative Electoral Geography: The Basic Methodology (p. 381)

Ecological Analysis of Voting Behaviour: Examples from Punjab (p. 408)

Friends and Neighbours Influence in Indian Elections: A Case of Rural Voting in the Sonepat Parliamentary Constituency, 1989 (p. 455)

Part VI: Retrospect and Prospect
From Political Methodology to Geographical Social Theory? A Critical Review of Electoral Geography, 1960-87 (p. 475)

Toward Electoral Geography as the Politics of Place (p. 484)

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