1st Edition
The Democratic Predicament Cultural Diversity in Europe and India
List of Abbreviations. Acknowledgements. Preface. Introduction: Democracy and the Production of Cultural Diversity. 1. Limits to Negotiations of Identities Riva Kastoryano 2. Multicultural Nationhood and the State in India Subrata K. Mitra 3. Rethinking Pluralism and Rights: Meditative Verbs of Co-Realizations and the Challenges of Transformations Ananta Kumar Giri 4. Democracy, Diversity and Contestation: A Transnational European Perspective Lise Rolandsen Agustín and Birte Siim 5. Democracy Promotion and the Problem of Peaceful Co-existence: Exploring the ‘Democratic Diplomacy’ of India Kate Helen Sullivan 6. Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism: Making Place for Nationalism Rahul Rao 7. Descriptive and Normative Pluralism: Making the Transition Neera Chandhoke 8. Democracy, Pluralism and Diversity: India and the European Union between Globalization and the Nation-State Daniele Conversi 9. Democracy and Diversity and the Vernacularization Framework Lucia Michelutti 10. A Comparative Study of Multiculturalism in Theory and Practice in the European Union and India Maryna Rakhlei 11. Multiculturalism Re-visited Mandakini V. Jha. Select Bibliography. About the Editors. Notes on Contributors. Index
Biography
Jyotirmaya Tripathy is Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras).
Sudarsan Padmanabhan is Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras.
