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Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Preface --1. The Temple Entry Act --2. The Way of the Distillers --3. Calculated Restraint --4. Gupte Bisoi and Bali Sahani --5. Making a Living --6. The Sources of Rationality --7. The Bottom Line --8. The Civility of Indifference --References --Index

Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Preface --1. The Babel Sound of Politics --2. Bhubaneswar New Capital --3. The Rhetoric of Paternalism --4. The Rhetoric of Business --5. The Rhetoric of Struggle --6. Pragmatism and the Gandhians --7. Disenchantment and Compromise --References --Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Understanding Leadership -- 2. The Disposition to Follow -- 3. Values, Beliefs, and Leadership -- 4. Formal Organizations and Institutions -- 5. The Creation of Trust -- 6. Disruptive Leadership -- 7. The Creation of Uncertainty -- 8. Political Science and Political Magic -- 9. "Seek Ye First the Political Kingdom" -- References -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Susila' s Death -- CHAPTER 2. Kith and Kin -- CHAPTER 3. Devatas -- CHAPTER 4. Bhuani's Search -- CHAPTER 5. The Divination Completed -- CHAPTER 6. The Conspiracy -- CHAPTER 7. Tuta's New Penalty -- CHAPTER 8. Winding Down -- Glossary -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 A Political System -- Games, fights and politics -- How to play and how to win -- How to forecast -- The environment -- Encapsulated political structures -- Change -- Conclusion -- 2 A Political Structure -- Introduction -- Prizes and values -- Personnel -- Leadership -- Competition -- Control -- Conclusion -- 3 Leaders and Teams -- Politics as an enterprise-leaders, resources -- Hirelings and the faithful -- Core and following -- Unspecialized groups -- Factions -- Conclusion -- 4 The Leader's Tasks -- Uncertainty and decisions -- Judicial tasks -- Decisions -- Consent and command -- 5 Strong and Weak Leaders -- Formal and informal leadership -- Transactional groups -- Dividing the work -- Moral teams -- Conclusion -- 6 Contests -- Politics as disorder -- Doladoli -- Pakhtouns in conflict -- Caste-climbing -- Asquith and Lloyd George -- Conclusion -- 7 Control -- What can go wrong? -- Collusion -- Authorities -- Conclusion -- 8 Encapsulated Political Structures -- Encapsulation -- A moral crisis -- Middlemen -- Encapsulation and change -- Conclusion -- 9 Change -- Introduction -- Environment and limited change -- Repetitive change -- Adaptive change -- Identifying radical change -- Manipulated change-the Kond Hills -- DeGaulle, France and Algeria -- 10 Postscript -- References -- Index

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Part One How to Understand: The Basics -- 1 The Aroma of Politics -- The Public Weal, Private Interests, and Realpolitik -- Reason, Emotion, and Presuppositions -- The Inherent Instability of Politics and Its Opposite -- 2 The Toolbox -- The Comparative Method: Universals and Thick Description -- Models: Structure, Context, and Process -- Models: Agency and Strategy -- A Formula -- Part Two How to Lead: Leaders and Followers -- 3 Decisions and Legitimacy -- What Leaders Do -- All Chiefs and No Indians (and Vice Versa) -- 4 Controlling Followers -- One of Us or Far Above Us? -- Entourage -- The People's Friend -- 5 Politicians and Bureaucrats -- Civil Servants -- Stirring Things Up -- 6 In Search of Trust -- "Intuition" and Calculation -- Strategies for Coping with Cultural Diversity -- What Gandhi Did with Culture -- A Kind of Dishonesty? -- Part Three How to Win: Leaders and Opponents -- 7 Can't We All Get Along? -- Evaluating Struggle -- Strategies and Human Nature -- 8 Three Types of Rule -- Institutional Frameworks and Rule-types -- Rule-types as Weapons -- Contradictory Normative Frameworks -- 9 Manipulation -- Information, Brokers, and Consensus -- Johnson and the Congress -- Consensus-making Strategies -- Conditions for Consensus-making -- 10 Pragmatism -- "A Remarkable Man" -- Lies, Graft, and Money -- The Significance of Pragmatism -- 11 Recalcitrance and Factions -- Švejkism -- Rough Music -- Factions -- 12 Revolution -- Moving the Boundaries -- The Fuzziness of Revolutions -- Stopping Short of Chaos -- Conclusion: The Normative Façade -- Notes -- References -- Index

Title page-God-Botherers and Other True-Believers; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PArt I-Faith and Politics; Chapter 1-Faith, Reason and Consequences; Chapter 2-Religion and Persuasion in Politics; Part II-Antagonistic Religions; Chapter 3-Desert, Marketplace and Forum; Chapter 4-The Need for Enemies; Part III-A Religion of Love; Chapter 5-Gandhi; Chapter 6-Gandhi's Charisma; Chapter 7-Gandhi's Religion and Political Reality; Chpater 8-The First Cause and the Last Word; References; Index