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Asymmetric Federalism in India

Ethnicity, Development and Governance

By: Harihar Bhattacharyya

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Asymmetric Federalism in India

Ethnicity, Development and Governance

By: Harihar Bhattacharyya

This book provides a critical account of federal asymmetry in India - its origins, context, forms and functioning - by taking into account the institutional effectiveness of asymmetric institutions in the regions for identity fulfillment, development and governance. It argues that while some asymmetry, de jure/ or de facto, is part of all federations for meeting some special circumstances, in India, which has followed a different path of federation building, asymmetric institutional solutions especially in the border areas have played a crucially important role in accommodating ethno-cultural diversity, ensuring law and order, a level of development and governance in a process that has turned the ‘rebels into stakeholders’. India’s federal asymmetric designs and their working has been a key to holding the peripheries within the Union of India. The book utilizes both archival research and empirical survey data, as well as elite interviews.

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Springer Nature

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3031237277

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Federalism in Asia

India, Pakistan and Malaysia

By: Harihar Bhattacharyya

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Federalism in Asia

India, Pakistan and Malaysia

By: Harihar Bhattacharyya

This book analyzes the successes and failures of various federal measures adopted in India, Pakistan and Malaysia for the political accommodation of diversity. Bhattacharyya then assesses their comparative significance for other countries in Asia. In particular, he examines growing tensions between nation and state-building in ethnically plural societies; modes of federation-building in Asia; persistent ethno-nationalist tensions in federations, and the relationship between federalism and democracy; and federalism and decentralization. Since ethno-nationalist conflict remains unresolved in most countries of Asia, this book should of interest to those seeking long-term solutions of problems of order and stability in ethnically diverse countries in Asia.

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Routledge

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113437643X

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Radical Politics and Governance in India's North East

The Case of Tripura

By: Harihar Bhattacharyya

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Radical Politics and Governance in India's North East

The Case of Tripura

By: Harihar Bhattacharyya

Tripura in India’s Northeast remains the only region in the world which has sustained a strong left radical political tradition for more than a century, in a context not usually congenial for left politics. Tripura is one of the 29 States in India which has returned the Communist Party of India (Marxist) led Left Front repeatedly to power. By contrast, radical ethnic politics dot the political scenario in the rest of the region. This book examines the roots, nature, governmental performance, and theoretical and policy implications of left radicalism in Tripura. The case of Tripura is placed in comparison with her neighbours in the region, and in some cases with India’s advanced States in governance matters. Based on original archival and the very recent empirical and documentary sources on the subject, the author shows that the Left in Tripura is well-entrenched, and that it has sustained itself compared to other parts of India, despite deeply rooted ethnic tensions between the aboriginal peoples (tribes) and immigrant Bengalis. The book explains how the Left sustains itself in the social and economic contexts of persistent ethnic conflicts, which are, rarely, if ever, punctuated by incipient class conflicts in a predominantly rural society in Tripura. It argues that shorn of the Indian Marxism’s ‘theoretical’ shibboleths, the Left in Tripura, which is part of the Indian Left, has learned to accommodate non-class tribal ethnicity within their own discourse and practices of government. This study demolishes the so-called ‘durable disorder’ hypothesis in the existing knowledge on India’s Northeast. A useful contribution to the study of radical left politics in India in general and state politics in particular, this book will be of interest to researchers of modern Indian history, India’s Northeast, and South Asian Politics.

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1317211162

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Federalism in Asia

India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Nepal and Myanmar

By: Harihar Bhattacharyya

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Federalism in Asia

India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Nepal and Myanmar

By: Harihar Bhattacharyya

This comprehensive book critically analyzes the successes and failures of federalism in India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Nepal and Myanmar for the political accommodation of ethno-regional diversity and assesses their comparative democratic significance for other countries in Asia. This revised new edition incorporates updated demographic, religious and linguistic data for the case study countries and examines some of the major changes that have taken place in formally federal states since 2010, including the 18th Amendment of the Constitution in Pakistan in 2010, which gave a major turn to decentralization by empowering the provinces; the new federal democratic Constitution that was introduced in Nepal in 2015; and the abolition of the Planning Commission and the National Development Council in India. The author thematically examines the growing tensions between nation and state-building in ethnically plural societies; modes of federation-building in Asia; persistent ethnic tensions in federations and the relationship between federalism and democracy; and federalism and decentralization. The book will be of use to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Asian politics, comparative federalism and modern Asian political history and institutions, as well as policy makers on ethnic conflict regulation and peace studies and stakeholders in ethnic power-sharing and political order.

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100006932X

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Politics And Governance In Indian States: Bihar, West Bengal And Tripura

By: Subrata Kumar Mitra,Harihar Bhattacharyya

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Politics And Governance In Indian States: Bihar, West Bengal And Tripura

By: Subrata Kumar Mitra,Harihar Bhattacharyya

Understanding India's politics and governance requires an examination of how politics and governance occur in the regional States, which constitute the federal units of India.This book addresses the issues of federalism, power-sharing and constitutional reforms, and their effects on governance in Indian States. Located within the growing literature on new State politics in India, this volume presents a critical, in-depth analysis of politics in Bihar, West Bengal and Tripura — these States being units of analysis for more general implications.What common obstacles have impeded development in each State, and what factors have favored recent, rapid development in some States but not others? The issues of caste conflicts, ethnic conflicts and other collective identity issues will be examined in this book — a pioneer volume with detailed, empirically-based research on the implications of State-centric politics in India.

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World Scientific

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9813208244

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9789813208247

Radical Politics and Governance in India's North East

The Case of Tripura

By: Harihar Bhattacharyya

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The Case of Tripura

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Asymmetric Federalism in India

Ethnicity, Development and Governance

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Ethnicity, Development and Governance

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Federalism in Asia

India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Nepal and Myanmar

By: Harihar Bhattacharyya

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India, Pakistan, Malaysia, Nepal and Myanmar

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Asymmetric Federalism in India

Asymmetric Federalism in India

Federalism in Asia

Federalism in Asia

Radical Politics and Governance in India's North East

Radical Politics and Governance in India's North East

Federalism in Asia

Federalism in Asia

Politics And Governance In Indian States: Bihar, West Bengal And Tripura

Politics And Governance In Indian States: Bihar, West Bengal And Tripura

Radical Politics and Governance in India's North East

Radical Politics and Governance in India's North East

Asymmetric Federalism in India

Asymmetric Federalism in India

Federalism in Asia

Federalism in Asia

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