Federalism and Internal Conflicts: Ethnicity, Development and Governance

Bhattacharyya, Harihar

This book provides a critical account of federal asymmetry in India - its origins, context, forms and functioning - by taking into account the institutional effectiveness of asymmetric institutions in the regions for identity fulfillment, development and governance. It argues that while some asymmetry, de jure/ or de facto, is part of all federations for meeting some special circumstances, in India, which has followed a different path of federation building, asymmetric institutional solutions especially in the border areas have played a crucially important role in accommodating ethno-cultural diversity, ensuring law and order, a level of development and governance in a process that has turned the ‘rebels into stakeholders’. India’s federal asymmetric designs and their working has been a key to holding the peripheries within the Union of India. The book utilizes both archival research and empirical survey data, as well as elite interviews.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2024-02-15

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031237294

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-23727-0

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 220