Remapping India
New States and Their Political Origins
Published on 22. January 2013
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-231-70382-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 marginalised ethnic communities, disgruntled farmers, opportunistic politicians, regional industrialists and others who seek -- in different ways -- to reshape political and economic arenas. Remapping India looks at the most recent episode of state creation in 2000, when the states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand came into being in some of the poorest, yet resource-rich, regions of Hindi-speaking north and central India. Their creation represented a new turn in the history of territorial organisation in India. This book explains the politics that lay behind this episode of post-linguistic state reorganisation, and what it means for the future design of India's federal system.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-70382-6 (9780231703826)
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Louise Tillin is a lecturer in politics at the India Institute, King's College, London. She previously served as a research fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, and has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London); the London School of Economics; Sussex University; and the Open University. She has also worked as a South Asia analyst for BBC News.