Political Representation Analysis

Rudolph and Rudolph (1984)(71)declared it is a misrepresentation to say that Brahmins belong to the same Indian nation as the non-Brahmins while the English are aliens . Indian Brahmins are more alien to us than Englishmen’. During the first quarter of this century, they demanded political representation in the State Legislative Assembly. Some of the backward or non-Brahmin castes in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu demanded separate electorates, so that they could elect their own representatives. The demands for reservation in government jobs and educational institutions continued in the 1980s. They considers that the backward classes (castes) of the northern, western and upper-southern states ‘bullock capitalists’. In the last two decades, they

This classic discussion of the concept of representation is one of the most influential and oft-cited works in the literature on political representation. Adopting a Wittgensteinian approach to language, Pitkin maintains that in order to understand the concept of political representation, one must consider the different ways in which the term is used. Each of these different uses of the term provides a different view of the concept. Pitkin compares the concept of representation to “a rather complicated, convoluted, three–dimensional structure in the middle of a dark enclosure.” Political theorists provide “flash-bulb photographs of the structure taken from different angles” . More specifically, political theorists have provided four main views of the concept of representation. Unfortunately, Pitkin never explains how these different views of political representation fit

Inspired by the last major investigation of the subject by Hanna Pitkin over four decades ago, this ambitious volume fills a major gap in the literature by examining the future of representative forms of democracy in terms of present-day trends and past theories of representative democracy. Aware of the pressing need for clarifying key concepts and institutional trends, the volume aims to break down barriers among disciplines and to establish an interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars. The contributors emphasise that representative democracy and its future is a subject of pressing scholarly concern and public importance. Paying close attention to the unfinished, two-century-old relationship between democracy and representation, this book offers a fresh perspective on current problems and dilemmas of representative democracy and the possible future development of new forms of democratic representation. Social Deprivation and Social Mobilization (2003): A case study of Backward Castes in Andhra Pradesh(80) by E.Venkatesu submitted his thesis to University of Hyderabad. This thesis explain who are Backward Caste, what are socio-economic condition of them, how they are aware of politics what action need to them. He gives best suggestion and