South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal - 2009

Dear colleagues and friends,   

SAMAJ - South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal - is pleased to announce the publication of its latest yearly Thematic Issue:                                ‘Contests in Context: Indian Elections 2009’ 

It is accessible in full at: http://samaj.revues.org/index1092.html   

The issue includes the following contributions:  

Balveer Arora and Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal

Introduction: Contextualizing and Interpreting the 15th Lok Sabha Elections  

Christophe Jaffrelot and Gilles Verniers

India’s 2009 Elections: The Resilience of Regionalism and Ethnicity

Bertrand Lefebvre and Cyril Robin

Pre-electoral Coalitions, Party System and Electoral Geography: A Decade of General Elections in India (1999–2009)

Rekha Chowdhary

Electoral Politics in the Context of Separatism and Political Divergence: An Analysis of 2009 Parliamentary Elections in Jammu & Kashmir

Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal

Studying Elections in India: Scientific and Political Debates  

SAMAJ is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, on-line journal, devoted to social science studies on South Asia. For more information, please visit our website http://samaj.revues.org   

With best regards and warm wishes for the New Year,  

SAMAJ Editorial Board

(Nosheen Ali, Luc Bellon, Amélie Blom, Miniya Chatterji, Jérémie Codron, Gilles Dorronsoro, Nicolas Jaoul, Loraine Kennedy, Aminah Mohammad-Arif, Christine Moliner, Mariam Mufti, Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal and Ingrid Therwath)