Conflict resolution in multicultural societies : the Indian experience / Jhumpa Mukherjee.

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The question has assumed added significance after the disintegration of the former multiethnic Soviet Union in the early 1990s. The present study, informed by a modified neo-institutionalism, seeks to identify the key to India s success as an integrated democracy amidst a whole lot of trajectories. As an answer to India s relative success in state formation and political order, this study emphasizes the role of democratic multicultural decentralization, which is a distinctive institutional-political formulation grown out of India s specific contexts, and which has served as a method of effective governance in India. The book is primarily aimed at first degree undergraduate and postgraduate students. It is aimed at students specializing in India politics, post-colonial studies, Third world politics and those studying decentralization in non-Western countries. The work would have direct appeal political scientists, sociologists, policy makers, research institutes, activists, and development agencies.

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 -- Contextualizing Multicultural Decentralization -- 2 -- The Indian Constitution: Institutional Arrangements for Accommodation of Diversity -- 3 -- Linguistic Reorganization in Colonial and Postcolonial India: Ideas, Rationale, and Principles -- 4 -- Language and State Formation in India -- 5 -- Northeast Tribes and Politico-cultural Decentralization -- 6 -- Subregionalism and Decentralization -- 7 -- Conclusion: The Way Forward -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

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