The Indian General Election of 2014 (Book 1/4 in IGE2014 series)
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Book Details
Author(s)
Bhuwan Singh
Publisher
Bhuwan Singh
ISBN / ASIN
B00FBZJFN2
ISBN-13
978B00FBZJFN2
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
Description
Welcome to the IGE2014 series. Around June 2013, when Narendra Modi was anointed the head of the BJP campaign for the Indian General election of 2014, I decided to write an account of the happenings around the election. The result of the effort is a series of 4 books:
Book 1: The Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published September 21, 2013 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FBZJFN2
Book 2: Numbers. Forecasting the Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published December 21, 2013 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HG6YG0Q
Book 3: Wrath of the Gods: The Aam Aadmi Party in the Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published January 31, 2014 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I5CHU4Y
Book 4: The Result of the Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published May 31, 2014 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KOS9FPE
These books were published individually, and the first three of these four books were published before the election concluded. Together, these works constitute an as-it-happened account of the events related to the Indian General Election of 2014. It is therefore an account of the main participants, their character and their motivations. Naturally, this book also contains a detailed analysis of the forces that drive Indian politics and the mechanisms through which those forces translate into action.
Book 1 was written in the period just after it became clear that Narendra Modi would contest as PM hopeful. This automatically made IGE2014 a cracker of a contest. It was clear to me then that IGE2014 would be an epic battle of ideas because Modi, as I write in Book 1, is the anti Nehru who will not just seek to defeat the Congress, he will seek to delegitimize it.
Modi is a very talented politician, and very open to trying innovative ideas. He is at the center of Book1. Abrasive, dogged, ruthless, Modi moves very, very fast. That is why I felt that IGE2014 would also be a spectacular tactical electoral fight. I had not run through the math then, for that analysis was done in detail only in Book 2 – “Numbers. Forecasting the Indian General Election of 2014†– but it was quite clear that alliances, vote share split and constituency level understanding would play a major role in this election. That the math of caste, coalition, communities and vote shares plays a major role in Indian elections is no big insight, but the way each party plays these variables gives us priceless insight into the stuff that party is made of.
Book 1 is part a roll out of the cast of characters in IGE2014 and part a recap of the history of Indian politics, especially since 2003 right up to the events in September 2013. I have written furiously and with sharp biases on our leaders, on the nature of parliamentary democracy in India, the nature of the electoral contest (especially in the Hindi heartland), on the main direction of economic policy in the decade preceding IGE2014, and on the central ideas of Indian Socialism and Indian Secularism. The list of my opinions on each of these topics will be apparent to all readers. All writing is partly biographical, and I did not see any reason to be forcedly ‘objective’ about ideas that I have strong opinions on. But I have been uncompromising and fair. What I wrote was what I believed was the truth at the time of writing; it needn’t have been the accepted view.
Book 1: The Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published September 21, 2013 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FBZJFN2
Book 2: Numbers. Forecasting the Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published December 21, 2013 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HG6YG0Q
Book 3: Wrath of the Gods: The Aam Aadmi Party in the Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published January 31, 2014 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I5CHU4Y
Book 4: The Result of the Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published May 31, 2014 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KOS9FPE
These books were published individually, and the first three of these four books were published before the election concluded. Together, these works constitute an as-it-happened account of the events related to the Indian General Election of 2014. It is therefore an account of the main participants, their character and their motivations. Naturally, this book also contains a detailed analysis of the forces that drive Indian politics and the mechanisms through which those forces translate into action.
Book 1 was written in the period just after it became clear that Narendra Modi would contest as PM hopeful. This automatically made IGE2014 a cracker of a contest. It was clear to me then that IGE2014 would be an epic battle of ideas because Modi, as I write in Book 1, is the anti Nehru who will not just seek to defeat the Congress, he will seek to delegitimize it.
Modi is a very talented politician, and very open to trying innovative ideas. He is at the center of Book1. Abrasive, dogged, ruthless, Modi moves very, very fast. That is why I felt that IGE2014 would also be a spectacular tactical electoral fight. I had not run through the math then, for that analysis was done in detail only in Book 2 – “Numbers. Forecasting the Indian General Election of 2014†– but it was quite clear that alliances, vote share split and constituency level understanding would play a major role in this election. That the math of caste, coalition, communities and vote shares plays a major role in Indian elections is no big insight, but the way each party plays these variables gives us priceless insight into the stuff that party is made of.
Book 1 is part a roll out of the cast of characters in IGE2014 and part a recap of the history of Indian politics, especially since 2003 right up to the events in September 2013. I have written furiously and with sharp biases on our leaders, on the nature of parliamentary democracy in India, the nature of the electoral contest (especially in the Hindi heartland), on the main direction of economic policy in the decade preceding IGE2014, and on the central ideas of Indian Socialism and Indian Secularism. The list of my opinions on each of these topics will be apparent to all readers. All writing is partly biographical, and I did not see any reason to be forcedly ‘objective’ about ideas that I have strong opinions on. But I have been uncompromising and fair. What I wrote was what I believed was the truth at the time of writing; it needn’t have been the accepted view.
