Decentring the Indian nation

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Decentring the Indian nation

editors, Andrew Wyatt, John Zavos

Frank Cass, 2003

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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  • Decentring the Indian nation / Andrew Wyatt, John Zavos, and Vernon Hewitt
  • Constitutional centring : nation formation and consociational federalism in India and Pakistan / Katharine Adeney
  • Redrawing the body politic : federalism, regionalism and the creation of new states in India / Emma Mawdsley
  • The continuing struggle for India's Jharkhand : democracy, decentralisation and the politics of names and numbers / Stuart Corbridge
  • Liberal, secular democracy and explanations of Hindu nationalism / Rajeev Bhargava
  • Whatever happened to cultural nationalism in Tamil Nadu? : a reading of current events and the recent literature on Tamil politics / John Harriss
  • A response to John Harriss / S.V. Rajadurai and V. Geetha
  • Identity politics and social pluralism : political sociology and political change in Tamil Nadu / Narendra Subramanian

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The world's largest democracy has experienced strife since its inception in 1947. The contributors to this study examine trends in Indian and Pakistani politics during the late 20th and early 21st centuries whilst focusing on the fragmentation of the body politic.

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  • Decentring the Indian nation
  • constitutional centring - nation formation and institutional legacies in India and Pakistan
  • redrawing the body politic - federalism, regionalism and the creation of new states in India
  • the continuing struggle for India's jharkhand - democracy, decentralization and the politics of names and numbers, liberal, secular democracy and explanations of Hindu nationalism
  • whatever happened to cultural nationalism in Tamil Nadu? A reading of current events and the recent literature on Tamil politics
  • a response to John Harriss
  • identity politics and social pluralism - political sociology and political change in Tamil Nadu.

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