Accommodating Diversity: Ideas and Institutional Practices - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198075030 ISBN 13: 9780198075035

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

How does the presence of diversity impact our understanding of society and formulation of adequate policies? This collection examines the Indian experience of diversity by delineating the policies and institutional arrangements that have been designed to accommodate different kinds of diversities, and highlighting the problems that the chosen path has yielded. The issues being examined include the Uniform Civil Code, the State's patronage of languages, affirmative action in educational institutions, and minority participation in electoral politics. So far, the notion of multiculturalism has been addressed by theories that have emerged from Western societies. This volume marks a step in the direction of rethinking such questions in the Indian context.

About this title

About the Author:

Gurpreet Mahajan is Professor, Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0198075030
• ISBN 13: 9780198075035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Mahajan Gurpreet