Ethnic Conflict in India: A Case-Study of Punjab

ISBN-13: 9780333721094 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 231 str.

Dr Gurharpal Singh

Opis

This important new book critically evaluates the conventional reading of ethnicity and ethnic conflict in contemporary Indian politics. By focusing on India's nation and state-building in the peripheral regions since 1947, in particular Punjab, it argues that there is a case for considering India as an ethnic democracy.

Spis treści

List of Tables, Maps and Figures Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations PART I: ETHNICITY, ETHNIC CONFLICT AND INDIAN POLITICS Introduction Perspectives on Ethnic Conflict in Indian Politics What is Happening to the Political Science of Ethnic Conflict? Reassessing 'Conventional Wisdom': Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict, and India as an Ethnic Democracy The Partition of India as State Contraction: Some Unspoken Assumptions PART 2: PUNJAB AND THE SIKHS Introduction Sikh Ethnicity and Punjab Hegemonic Control: Punjab Politics, 1947-84 Understanding the 'Punjab Problem' PART 3: MILITANCY AND COUNTERINSURGENCY: RESTRUCTURING SIKH POLITICS Introduction The 'Punjab Problem': A Post-1984 Assessment Punjab Legislative Assembly Elections 1992: Breakthrough or Breakdown? Punjab Since 1984: Disorder, Order and Legitimacy PART 4: HINDUTVA , AKALIS AND THE BJP: The 'PUNJAB PROBLEM' IN A COMPARATIVE INDIAN PERSPECTIVE Introduction India's Akali-BJP Alliance: The 1997 Legislative Assembly Elections Resizing and Reshaping the Indian State: The 'Punjab Problem' in a Comparative Perspective Selected Bibliography Index

O autorze

GURHARPAL SINGH is Professor in Politics at the University of Hull. He has previously worked at Birkbeck College and De Montfort University. He is the author of Communism in Punjab and the co-editor of Punjabi Identity and Region and Partition: Bengal, Punjab and the Partition of the Subcontinent.