Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Decentring the Indian Nation -- NOTES -- Constitutional Centring: Nation Formation and Consociational Federalism in India and Pakistan -- DECENTRING UNDER IMPERIAL CONTROL -- Grand Coalition -- Proportionality -- Segmental Autonomy -- Mutual Veto -- The Scoring System -- DISCONTINUITIES OF PARTITION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Redrawing the Body Politic: Federalism, Regionalism and the Creation of New States in India -- THE MAP OF STATES: INDEPENDENCE AND AFTER -- THEORISING THE RECENT TERRITORIAL REORGANISATION IN INDIA -- THE CHANGING POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INDIA -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- The Continuing Struggle for India's Jharkhand: Democracy, Decentralisation and the Politics of Names and Numbers -- THE MOVEMENT FOR A JHARKHAND STATE -- JHARKHAND UNDERMINED -- The Ideology of Tribal Economy and Society -- The Politics of Names and Numbers -- Co-optation and Violence -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- Liberal, Secular Democracy and Explanations of Hindu Nationalism -- EXPLANATIONS FOR THE RESURGENCE OF HINDU NATIONALISM -- Long-Term Enabling Conditions -- Short-Term Enabling Conditions -- Long-Term Actions by Primary Political Actors (Proponents of Hindutva) -- Short-Term Actions by Primary Political Actors -- Short-Term and Long-Term Actions by Secondary Political Actors -- Long-Term and Short-Term Actions of Social Actors -- THE NORMATIVE VOCABULARY OF THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION -- LIBERAL DEMOCRACY IN THE INDIAN PUBLIC DOMAIN -- LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC DISCOURSE AS A LEGITIMATING MOTIVE -- Democracy -- Secularism -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- Whatever Happened to Cultural Nationalism in Tamil Nadu? Reading of Current Events and the Recent Literature on Tamil Politics -- DOES SUCCESSFUL POPULISM CONSTRAIN HINDU NATIONALISM IN TAMIL NADU? -- 'SUCCESSFUL POPULISM' VERSUS CASTEISM? -- NOTES -- A Response to John Harriss.

NOTES -- Identity Politics and Social Pluralism: Political Sociology and Political Change in Tamil Nadu -- SOME OF THE BOOK'S ARGUMENTS -- THE DRAVIDIAN PARTIES: ASPECTS OF THEIR HISTORY -- INTOLERANCE AND VIOLENT CONFLICT -- Hindu Nationalism -- 'Casteism' -- THE DRAVIDIAN PARTIES AND SOCIAL PLURALISM -- CAUSALITY -- RECENT TRENDS AND FUTURE RESEARCH -- NOTES -- Abstracts -- Constitutional Centring: Nation Formation and Consociational Federalism in India and Pakistan, by Katharine Adeney -- Redrawing the Body Politic: Federalism, Regionalism and the Creation of New States in India, by Emma Mawdsley -- The Continuing Struggle for India's Jharkhand: Democracy, Decentralisation and the Politics of Names and Numbers, by Stuart Corbridge -- Liberal, Secular Democracy and Explanations of Hindu Nationalism, by Rajeev Bhargava -- Whatever Happened to Cultural Nationalism in Tamil Nadu? A Reading of Current Events and the Recent Literature on Tamil Politics, by John Harriss -- Response to John Harriss, by S.V.Rajadurai and V.Geetha -- Identity Politics and Social Pluralism: Political Sociology and Political Change in Tamil Nadu, by Narendra Subramanian -- Index.

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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