000			02256nam a22001937a 4500
999			_c74346 _d74346
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082			_a303.690954 J559 C _b103032
100			_aJhumpa Mukherjee
245			_aConflict Resolution in Multicultural Societies: _bThe Indian Experience
250			_a1st. ed
260			_aNew Delhi _bSage _c2014
300			_a164
500			_aIs it not interesting that at a time when the idea of a global “clash of civilizations” is reverberating so mightily and so ominously, how India puts up with the challenge of forging national unity amidst its intricate diversity? What is the key to her comparative success as an integrated state? 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.
505			_aIntroduction Contextualizing Multicultural Decentralization The Indian Constitution: Institutional Arrangements for Accommodation of Diversity Linguistic Reorganization in Colonial and Postcolonial India: Ideas, Rationale, and Principles Language and State Formation in India Northeast Tribes and Politico-cultural Decentralization Subregionalism and Decentralization Conclusion: The Way Forward Bibliography Index
650			_aIndia
650			_aEthnic relations
650			_aDecentralization in government
942			_cBK