Remapping India (Paperback)

Louise Tillin

ISBN 10: 1849042292 / ISBN 13: 9781849042291

Published by C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, London, 2013

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Paperback. There is a widespread consensus today that the constitutional flexibility to alter state boundaries has bolstered the stability of India's democracy. Yet debates persist about whether the creation of more states is desirable. Political parties, regional movements and local activists continue to demand new states in different parts of the country as part of their attempts to reshape political and economic arenas. Remapping India looks at the most recent episode of state creation in 2000, when the states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand came into being in some of the poorest, yet resource-rich, regions of Hindi-speaking north and central India. Their creation represented a new turn in the history of the country's territorial organisation. This book explains the politics that lay behind this episode of 'post-linguistic' state reorganisation and what it means for the future design of India's federal system. A thorough analysis of the emergence of new states in India and what it heralds for the future Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remapping India (Paperback)
• Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1849042292
• ISBN 13: 9781849042291
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

There is a widespread consensus today that the constitutional flexibility to alter state boundaries has bolstered the stability of India's democracy. Yet debates persist about whether the creation of more states is desirable. Political parties, regional movements and local activists continue to demand new states in different parts of the country, as part of their attempts to reshape political and economic arenas. Remapping India looks at the most recent episode of state creation in 2000, when the states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand came into being in some of the poorest, yet resource-rich, regions of Hindi-speaking north and central India. Their creation represented a new turn in the history of the country's territorial organisation. This book explains the politics that lay behind this episode of 'post-linguistic' state reorganisation and what it means for the future design of India's federal system.

About the Author

Louise Tillin is a lecturer in politics at the India Institute, King's College, London. She previously served as a research fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, and has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London); the London School of Economics; Sussex University; and the Open University. She has also worked as a South Asia analyst for BBC News.