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Remapping India : new states and their political origins /

"There is a widespread consensus today that the constitutional flexibility to alter boundaries has bolstered the stability of India's democracy, and reduced the potential for conflicts around language. Debates continue about the potential to create more states in response to the demands of...

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Dades bibliogràfiques
Autor principal: Tillin, Louise
Format: Printed Book
Idioma:English
Publicat: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Matèries:
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction : the compromise politics of statehood
  • Territorial design and federal thought in India
  • Social movements, political parties and statehood : Jharkhand and Uttarakhand
  • Statehood without a movement : Chhattisgarh
  • The view from the state capitals
  • Federal politics and the creation of new states in 2000
  • After 2000 : frurther reorganisation?
  • Conclusion.