Rethinking State Politics In India: Regions Within Regions

by Ashutosh Kumar

2021-01-08 12:29:01

Focusing on the twin issues of identity and development that are often signifiers of the unravelling politics in the federal polity, the book make a concerted attempt to look at (and beyond) the states by exploring the specificities of the re... Read more

Focusing on the twin issues of identity and development that are often signifiers of the unravelling politics in the federal polity, the book make a concerted attempt to look at (and beyond) the states by exploring the specificities of the regions within these states. It does so through a comparative study from the vantage point of democratic politics as it unfurls in recent India. Emphasising that regions within the states are not merely politico-administrative instituted constructs but are also imagined or constituted, among others, in historical, geographic, economic, sociological or cultural terms, it argues that any meaningful comparative study of the regions would naturally straddle the disciplinary boundaries of social sciences. The book attempts to go beyond the states and look at the regions within them as a distinctive analytical category for an in-depth study of the democratic politics of identity and development unfolding at the state level.

Less

Book Details

File size8.5 X 5.43 X 1.05 in
Print pages516
PublisherRoutledge
Publication date January 22, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781138662797
Ashutosh Kumar is a historian of ‘Global South’ and Director of Centre for Alternative Studies in Social Sciences (CASSS), New Delhi. He has been a fellow at various prestigious institutions of th...

Compare Prices

Store Availability Book Format Condition Price
Indigo Books & Music In Stock Paperback Paperback Buy CAD 82.50
Indigo Books & MusicIn Stock
Format
Paperback
Condition
Paperback
Buy CAD 82.50
Available Discount
No Discount available

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free