List of Tables and Figures
Publisher's Acknowledgements
Introduction (Sanjib Baruah)
Part I: Debating the Indian Record
1. Diversity, Democracy, and Devolution in India (Kanti Bajpai)
2. Elite Interests, Popular Passions, and Social Power in the Language Politics of India (Paul R. Brass)
3. Reassessing 'Conventional Wisdom': Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict and India as an Ethnic Democracy (Gurharpal Singh)
Part II: Kashmir: Ethnonational Conflict, and the Legacy of Partition
4. Three Compromised Nationalisms: Why Kashmir has been a Problem (Ashutosh Varshney)
5. Explaining the Kashmir Insurgency: Political Mobilization and Institutional Decay (Sumit Ganguly)
6. The Kashmir Conflict in the Early 21st Century (Sumantra Bose)
Part III: Northeast India: Ethnonationalism in a Cultural Borderland
7. Confronting Constructionism: Ending the Naga War (Sanjib Baruah)
8. Invention, Reinvention, and Contestation: Politics of Identity in Assam (M.S. Prabhakara)
9. Secessionism in Northeast India: Identity Wars or Crises of Legitimacy? (M. Sajjad Hassan); Part IV: Ethnonationalism and the Federal Design
10. Constitutional Centring: Nation Formation and Consociational Federalism in India and Pakistan (Katharine Adeney)
11. Federalism, Multinational Societies, and Negotiating a Democratic 'State-Nation': A Theoretical Framework, the Indian Model, and a Tamil Case Study (Alfred Stepan)
12. Integration through Internal Reorganization: Containing Ethnic Conflict in India (Maya Chadda)
Part V: Consociational Theory and India
13. The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation (Arend Lijphart)
14. India, Consociational Theory, and Ethnic Violence (Steven Ian Wilkinson)
Part VI: The Fortunes of Ethnonational Movements: Contextual Variables
15. Can Democracies Accommodate Ethnic Nationalism? Rise and Decline of Self-Determination Movements in India (Atul Kohli)
16. Ethnicity and Pluralism: An Exploration with Reference to Indian Cases (Narendra Subramanian)
Notes on Contributors