Overview

Discussing various ethnonational movements in India, including the Northeast, Punjab and the Kashmir movements, the volume covers their initiation, subsequent trajectory, and the role of the State. The first part provides the context discussing democracy, diversity and devolution and the containment of social and political power. The second and third parts focus on Kashmir as a legacy of partition, and the Northeast respectively. Both parts discuss the nature of federal design, the fourth part discusses conflict-negotiation between a democratic nation and prospective breakaway units, with an emphasis on how such situations are controlled. The fifth part explores the theory of fragmented nationalisms and relates it to the specifics of the situation in India. the concluding part charts the rise and fall of self-determination movements across the country.

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Author:   Sanjib Baruah
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 21.80cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 15.00cm
Weight:   0.712kg
ISBN:  

9780198060437

ISBN 10:   0198060432
Pages:   562
Publication Date:   24 December 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

1. Diversity, Democracy and Devolution in India; 2. Elite Interests, Popular Passions, and Social Power i n the Language Politics of India; 3. Reassessing 'Conventional Wisdom': Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict and the Legacy of partition; 4. Three Compromised Nationalisms: Why Kashmir has been a Problem; 5. Explaining the Kashmir Insurgency: Political Mobilization and Institutional Decay; 6. Kashmir; 7. Confronting Constructionism: Ending the Naga War; 8. Invention, Reinvention and Contestation: Politics of Identity in Assam; 9. Secessionism in Northeast India: Identity Wars or Crises of Legitimacy?; 10. Constitutional Centring: Nation Formation and Consociational Federalism in India and Pakistan; 11. Federalism, Multi-national Societies, and Negotiating a Democratic 'State-Nation': A Theoretical Framework, the Indian Model, and a Tamil Case Study; 12. Integration through Internal Reorganization: Containing Ethnic Conflict in India; 13. The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consnciational Interpretation; 14. India, Consociational Theory and Ethnic Violence; 15. Can Democracies Accomodate the Ethnic Nationalism? Rise and Decline of Self-Determination Movements in India; 16. Ethnicity and Pluralism: An Exploration with Reference to Indian Cases

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Sanjib Baruah is Professor of Political Science at Bard College, Honorary Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, and is also Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in India.

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