Conflict resolution in multicultural societies : the Indian experience / Jhumpa Mukherjee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mukherjee, Jhumpa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--India.

Minorities.

Decentralization in government--India.

Decentralization in government.

Conflict management--India.

Conflict management.

Ethnic conflict--India.

Ethnic conflict.

Multiculturalism--India.

Multiculturalism.

India--Ethnic relations.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : SAGE, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; 1 - Contextualizing Multicultural Decentralization; 2 - The Indian Constitution: Institutional Arrangements for Accommodation of Diversity; 3 - Linguistic Reorganization in Colonial and Postcolonial India: Ideas, Rationale, and Principles; 4 - Language and State Formation in India; 5 - Northeast Tribes and Politico-cultural Decentralization; 6 - Subregionalism and Decentralization; 7 - Conclusion: The Way Forward; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

93-5328-897-5

93-5150-549-9

93-5150-796-3

93-5150-151-5

9789351507963

OCLC:

986746571