Decentring the Indian nation / Andrew Wyatt, John Zavos, and Vernon Hewitt -- Constitutional centring : nation formation and consociational federalism in India and Pakistan / Katharine Adeney -- Redrawing the body politic : federalism, regionalism and the creation of new states in India / Emma Mawdsley -- The continuing struggle for India's Jharkhand : democracy, decentralisation and the politics of names and numbers / Stuart Corbridge -- Liberal, secular democracy and explanations of Hindu nationalism / Rajeev Bhargava -- Whatever happened to cultural nationalism in Tamil Nadu? : a reading of current events and the recent literature on Tamil politics / John Harriss -- A response to John Harriss / S.V. Rajadurai and V. Geetha -- Identity politics and social pluralism : political sociology and political change in Tamil Nadu / Narendra Subramanian
Summary
The contributors to this study examine trends in Indian and Pakistani politics during the late 20th and early 21st centuries whilst focusing on the fragmentation of the body politic
