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Democratisation in the Himalayas: Interests, Conflicts, and Negotiations book cover

1st Edition

Democratisation in the Himalayas Interests, Conflicts, and Negotiations

Edited By Vibha Arora, N. Jayaram Copyright 2017
222 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

222 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

222 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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Democratisation is a formidable task in the Himalayan region owing to its immense cultural heterogeneity. The process of democratisation has accentuated ethnic competition, assertion of identity, and demand for ethnic homelands to protect, safeguard, and promote political and development interests of various groups. This volume discusses competing interests; identity politics that permeates... Read more

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Preface

 

Introduction: steering democratisation and negotiating identity in the Himalayas

Vibha Arora and N. Jayaram

PART I Shifting selves and competing identities

1 Seeking identities on the margins of democracy: Jad Bhotiyas of Uttarkashi

Subhadra Mitra Channa

2 The politics of census: fear of numbers and competing claims for representation in Naga society

Debojyoti Das

3 The making of the subaltern Lepcha and the Kalimpong stimulus

Vibha Arora

PART II Negotiating democracy

4 Monks, elections, and foreign travels: democracy and the monastic order in western Arunachal Pradesh, North-East India

Swargajyoti Gohain

5 ‘Pure democracy’ in ‘new Nepal’: conceptions, practices, and anxieties

Amanda Snellinger

PART III Territorial conflict and after 

6 Demand for Kukiland and Kuki ethnic nationalism

Vibha Arora and Ngamjahao Kipgen

7 Displacement from Kashmir: gendered responses

Charu Sawhney and Nilika Mehrotra

 

Index

Biography

Vibha Arora is Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.

N. Jayaram is Visiting Professor at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, India.

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