1st Edition

Decentring the Indian Nation

Edited By Andrew Wyatt, John Zavos Copyright 2003

    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.

    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.

    Biography

    Andrew Wyatt, John Zavos

    'Decentring the Indian Nation is an excellently organized and presented collaborative volume primarily concerned with political aggregations of community in India.' - The Journal of Asian Studies

    'Its best feature is its self-dialogue - one really gets the sense that the essays (and their writers) are in conversation with one another in a sort of harmonious dissent, agreeing and arguing with one another at the same time. This results in a nuanced work that approaches a single topic from many different angles, a perfect stimulant for critical thinking and classroom discussion alike.' - The Journal of Asian Studies