LEADER 03585oam 2200625I 450 001 9910819886503321 005 20240404160814.0 010 $a1-138-66025-6 010 $a1-315-81603-2 010 $a1-317-80941-6 010 $a1-317-80942-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315816036 035 $a(CKB)2550000001247512 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1683234 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1683234 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10847994 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL581804 035 $a(OCoLC)873805715 035 $a(OCoLC)878141777 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB137532 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001247512 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe democratic predicament $ecultural diversity in Europe and India /$feditors, Jyotirmaya Tripathy, Sudarsan Padmanabhan 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (367 pages) 311 $a0-415-81189-9 311 $a1-306-50553-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Contestation -- pt. 2. Consensus. 330 3 $aBoth India and Europe have been undergoing a difficult process of negotiating cultural, religious and ethnic diversity within their democratic frameworks. In fact, recent incidents of xenophobic backlash against multiculturalism and minority communities in Europe, as well as myriad movements for constitutional recognition of castes, tribes and languages and the emergence of Islamophobic terror in India, question the conventional idea of democracy as the idyllic preserver of diversity. This volume contests the simplistic connection between democracy and diversity by proposing that democracy, in fact, produces, sediments and reinforces cultural heterogeneity. It argues that in democratic polities, disparate cultural practices are often converted into identity categories, with disturbing implications for national identity, constitutionalism, political governance and citizenship. While mobilizations on the plank of cultural differences are typically viewed as being born in undemocratic spaces with little toleration for diversity, they also find fertile soil in democracy insofar as democracy celebrates diversity and allows cultural dissent to thrive. Such dissent, while essential for democracy, has difficult consequences. Examining the fundamental conflict between constructions of particular cultural identities and mandates of a unifying democratic ethos, the book brings forth the complexities underlying the politics of identity recognition and national integration. In making a radical intervention in the discourse, this volume offers a critique of existing paradigms of multiculturalism. It will interest scholars and students of political science, sociology, and postcolonial and comparative studies -- Page 4 of cover. 606 $aCultural pluralism$zEurope 606 $aCultural pluralism$zIndia 606 $aDemocracy$zIndia 607 $aEurope$xCultural policy 607 $aIndia$xCultural policy 615 0$aCultural pluralism 615 0$aCultural pluralism 615 0$aDemocracy 676 $a305.80094 676 $a321.8094 701 $aPadmanabhan$b Sudarsan$01718853 701 $aTripathy$b Jyotirmaya$01718854 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819886503321 996 $aThe democratic predicament$94116139 997 $aUNINA