Asymmetric Federalism in India: Ethnicity, Development and Governance

By Harihar Bhattacharyya

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031237293
• ISBN13: 9783031237294
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"