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Ethnic Conflict in India: A Case-Study of Punjab
Is India unique in politically managing ethnic conflicts? This book evaluates critically the conventional wisdom which argues that it is. By focusing on India's nation and state-building in the peripheral regions since 1947 and contemporary developments, it suggests that India should be considered as a form of ethnic democracy. Within India's ethnic democracy, hegemonic and violent control is exercised over minorities, especially religious communities constituting majorities in the federating units. A detailed case-study is provided of the management of the 'Punjab proble' - the growth and containment of Sikh ethno-nationalism and, after 1984, the suppression of the separatist movement for Khalistan, a Sikh state. The long-term development of ethno-nationalist separatist movements, the book argues, is inextricably linked to the future character of Indian democracy. This is assessed in light of the challenge posed by the rise of Hindutva forces, the demise of Nehruvianism, and the internal political and economic pressures towards regionalization.
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Ethnic Conflict in India: A Case-Study of Punjab
Is India unique in politically managing ethnic conflicts? This book evaluates critically the conventional wisdom which argues that it is. By focusing on India's nation and state-building in the peripheral regions since 1947 and contemporary developments, it suggests that India should be considered as a form of ethnic democracy. Within India's ethnic democracy, hegemonic and violent control is exercised over minorities, especially religious communities constituting majorities in the federating units. A detailed case-study is provided of the management of the 'Punjab proble' - the growth and containment of Sikh ethno-nationalism and, after 1984, the suppression of the separatist movement for Khalistan, a Sikh state. The long-term development of ethno-nationalist separatist movements, the book argues, is inextricably linked to the future character of Indian democracy. This is assessed in light of the challenge posed by the rise of Hindutva forces, the demise of Nehruvianism, and the internal political and economic pressures towards regionalization.
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Ethnic Conflict in India: A Case-Study of Punjab

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Ethnic Conflict in India: A Case-Study of Punjab

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Overview

Is India unique in politically managing ethnic conflicts? This book evaluates critically the conventional wisdom which argues that it is. By focusing on India's nation and state-building in the peripheral regions since 1947 and contemporary developments, it suggests that India should be considered as a form of ethnic democracy. Within India's ethnic democracy, hegemonic and violent control is exercised over minorities, especially religious communities constituting majorities in the federating units. A detailed case-study is provided of the management of the 'Punjab proble' - the growth and containment of Sikh ethno-nationalism and, after 1984, the suppression of the separatist movement for Khalistan, a Sikh state. The long-term development of ethno-nationalist separatist movements, the book argues, is inextricably linked to the future character of Indian democracy. This is assessed in light of the challenge posed by the rise of Hindutva forces, the demise of Nehruvianism, and the internal political and economic pressures towards regionalization.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312228385
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 05/20/2000
Edition description: 2000
Pages: 231
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Lexile: 1650L (what's this?)

About the Author

Gurharpal Singh is Professor of Politics at the University of Hull.

Table of Contents

Part I: Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict, and Indian Politics
• Perspectives on Ethnic Conflict in Indian Politics
• What is Happening to the Political Science of Ethnic Conflict?
• Reassessing "Conventional Wisdom"
• The Partition of India as State Contraction
• Part II: Punjab and the Sikhs
• Sikh Ethnicity and Punjab
• Hegemonic Control
• Understanding the "Punjab Problem"
• Part III: Militancy and Counterinsurgency: Restructuring Sikh Politics
• The "Punjab Problem"
• Punjab Legislative Assembly Elections 1992
• Punjab Since 1984
• Part IV: Hindutva, Akalis, and the BJP: The "Punjab Problem" in a Comparative Indian Prospective
• India's Akali-BJP Alliance
• Resizing and Reshaping the Indian State

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