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Interrogating Reorganisation of States

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Culture, Identity and Politics in India

Interrogating Reorganisation of States

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Interrogating Reorganisation of States book

Culture, Identity and Politics in India
Edited ByAsha Sarangi, Sudha Pai
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 30 November 2020
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge India
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367818098
Pages 344
eBook ISBN 9780367818098
Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Sarangi, A., & Pai, S. (Eds.). (2011). Interrogating Reorganisation of States: Culture, Identity and Politics in India (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367818098

ABSTRACT

The volume analyses the complex historical and political context for the processes of state formation in independent India. It provides both a conceptual and empirical framework for an understanding of Indian democracy through the perspective of reorganisation of states.



Following the recommendations of the States Reorganisation Commission (SRC) in 1956, the territorial boundaries of the states were redrawn. However, within a decade, the geo-linguistic and cultural-ideological criteria could not be considered satisfactory for the future division of states. With the formation of three new states (Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Jharkhand) and the demand for Telangana statehood not accepted as yet, new dimensions and perspectives about state formation as a critical political practice have surfaced yet again in contemporary India.



The book addresses a number of significant themes related to states reorganisation and its effects — questions of underdevelopment, size, political participation, governance, cultural identities — and also analyses the demand for smaller states. It focuses on different states, their historical and contemporary trajectory leading to the demand for territorial remapping and thus recognising specific political and cultural resources, and identities in the regions and sub-regions of states in India.



The book will be useful for those studying politics, history, sociology, comparative politics and South Asian Studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |25 pages

Introduction: Contextualising Reorganisation

ByAsha Sarangi, Sudha Pai

part Part I|39 pages

Historical and Political Context of Reorganisation

chapter 1|19 pages

Nehru and the Reorganisation of States: Making of Political India

ByAsha Sarangi

chapter 2|18 pages

Rule, Governmental Rationality and Reorganisation of States

ByRanabir Samaddar

part Part II|60 pages

Reorganising the Hindi Heartland

chapter 3|38 pages

‘Making of a Political Community’: The Congress Party and the Integration of Madhya Pradesh 1

BySudha Pai

chapter 4|20 pages

Reorganising the Hindi Heartland in 2000: The Deep Regional Politics of State Formation

ByLouise Tillin

part Part III|82 pages

Languages and States: Western and Southern India

chapter 5|15 pages

The Paradox of a Linguistic Minority

ByRita Kothari

chapter 6|20 pages

Political Currents in Maharashtra: Language and Beyond*

ByUsha Thakkar, Nagindas Sanghavi

chapter 7|26 pages

Discourses on Telangana and Critique of the Linguistic Nationality Principle

ByK. Srinivasulu

chapter 8|19 pages

Competing Imaginations: Language and Anti-colonial Nationalism in India

ByV. B. Tharakeshwar

part Part IV|95 pages

Culture and Identity: Reorganisation in the East and the North East

chapter 9|38 pages

Revisiting the States Reorganisation Commission in the Context of Orissa

ByNivedita Mohanty

chapter 10|33 pages

'Linguistic Provinces' to 'Homelands': Shifting Paradigms of State-making in Post-colonial India*

BySajal Nag

chapter 11|22 pages

Assam through the Prism of Reorganisation Experience

ByIvy Dhar
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