Remapping India: New States and Their Political Origins - Couverture souple

Tillin, Louise

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849042292 ISBN 13 : 9781849042291

Editeur : C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

There is a widespread consensus today that the constitutional flexibility to alter state boundaries has bolstered the stability of India's democracy. Yet debates persist about whether the creation of more states is desirable. Political parties, regional movements and local activists continue to demand new states in different parts of the country as part of their attempts 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 the country's territorial organisation. 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Louise Tillin is a Lecturer in Politics at the India Institute, King's College London. She has previously been a research fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge and taught at SOAS, LSE, Sussex and the Open University. Before this she worked as a South Asia analyst in BBC News.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849042292
• ISBN 13: 9781849042291
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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