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Asymmetric Federalism in India: Ethnicity, Development and Governance

Asymmetric Federalism in India: Ethnicity, Development and Governance

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Series: Federalism and Internal Conflicts

General Political Science

ISBN10: 3031237293
ISBN13: 9783031237294
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 15 2024
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book provides a critical account of federal asymmetry in India - its origins, context, forms and functioning - by taking into account the institutional effectiveness of asymmetric institutions in the regions for identity fulfillment, development and governance. It argues that while some asymmetry, de jure/ or de facto, is part of all federations for meeting some special circumstances, in India, which has followed a different path of federation building, asymmetric institutional solutions especially in the border areas have played a crucially important role in accommodating ethno-cultural diversity, ensuring law and order, a level of development and governance in a process that has turned the 'rebels into stakeholders'. India's federal asymmetric designs and their working has been a key to holding the peripheries within the Union of India. The book utilizes both archival research and empirical survey data, as well as elite interviews.

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