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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822611803321

Titolo

Decentring the Indian nation / / editors, Andrew Wyatt, John Zavos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, Jan. 2003

Ipswich, : Ebsco Publishing [distributor]

ISBN

1-135-76168-X

1-135-76169-8

1-280-05596-0

0-203-00925-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (143 pages)

Disciplina

320.8/0954

Soggetti

Decentralization in government - India

Regionalism - Political aspects - India

Nationalism - India

Central-local government relations - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Annotation