Leadership in South Asia

PART ONE: SPHERES OF LEADERSHIP

1 Traditional Leadership in Indian Tribal Societies

Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf 3

2 Patterns of British Leadership in British India—Theme with Variations

T G P Spear 19

3 Bureaucratic Politics and Development in Nepal

Leo E Rose and Martin Landau 41

4 Lawyers as Leaders

J Duncan M Derrett 55

5 Lawyer’s Role and Leadership Function

T K Krishnamurthy Iyer 73

6 Peasant Leadership

D N Panigrahi 83

7 Leadership in the All-India Progressive Writers' Movement, 1935-1947

Ralph Russell 104

PART TWO: LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL LEADERSHIP

8 Big Men of Arunpur: Political Leadership in an Eastern U P Village

Miriam Sharma 131

9 Elite Conflict in Panchayat Raj

R V R Chandrasekhara Rao 158

10 Officials and Non-Officials as Leaders in Popular Agitations: Shahabad 1917 and other “Conspiracies”

Peter Robb 179

11 The Rise of Jagpathi Rao as a District Leader

Hugh Gray 211

12 The Influence of Government Institutions on Provincial Politics and Leadership in Madras, 1880-1925

David A Washbrook 232

13 Change with Stability: The Chief Minister’s Burden

P V Narasimha Rao 262

14 Political Leadership in Andhra Pradesh, 1956-1973

Dagmar Bernstorff 290

PART THREE: LEADERSHIP OF POLITICAL PARTIES

15 The Crisis of Authority in the Indian National Congress, 1936-1939

David Taylor 321

16 Leadership Conflict and the Disintegration of the Indian Socialist Movements: Personal Ambition, Power, and Policy

Paul R Brass 341

17 Professional Politicians in Muslim Politics, 1911-1923

Francis Robinson 372

18 Religion and Politics: The Leadership of the All-India Hindu Mahasabha, Punjab and Maharashtra, 1920-1939

Bruce E Cleghorn 395

19 The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in the Politics of Tamil Nadu, 1949-1971

T V Sathyamurthy 426

20 Communist Leadership in Kerala: The Business of the Many, the Art of the Few

Thomas Johnson Nossiter 461

21 Political Leadership in Sri Lanka—The Parliamentary Parties

James Jupp 483

PART FOUR: LEADERS: EMERGENCE AND STYLE

22 Leading up to Periyar: the Early Career of E V Rama Swami Naicker

Christopher John Baker 503

23 The Leadership of Babasaheb Ambedkar

Eleanor Zelliot 535

24 Gandhi’s Leadership

Judith M Brown 563

25 Gandhi’s Styles of Leadership

Dennis Dalton 590

26 Mohammed Ali Jinnah and the System of Imperial Control in India, 1909-1930: A Case Study in Political Leadership and Constitutional Innovation

David Page 632

27 Congress Leadership in Transition: Jinnah to Gandhi, 1914-1920

Stanley Wolpert 653

28 Jawaharlal Nehru: The Emergence of a Leader

B N Pandey 667

29 Jawaharlal Nehru as Prime Minister

Bimal Prasad 693

INDEX 717