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Democratic Accommodations
Minorities in Contemporary India
Democratic Accommodations
Minorities in Contemporary India
Description
Democratic Accommodations: The Minority Question in India analyses the complex story of the accommodation of claims, interests and rights of minorities in India. It aims at what India-being one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse nations of the world-can offer to other nations, particularly to the countries of Europe that are confronted with ethnocultural and ethno-religious assertion.
The authors have endorsed the argument that all plural democracies-and all democracies can only be plural in the present historical conjuncture despite the attempts by regimes to make them majoritarian-must work out their own strategies of accommodation by evolving a policy matrix that is suited to the dynamics of their own societies. The book is organised along four rubrics-laws, institutions, policies and political discourse-to understand Indian democracy's distinct response to diversity. The rich and nuanced exploration of the Indian approach to the minority question presented in this book will advance the international debate on diversity and multiculturalism and help policymakers in pluralistic democracies to develop their own particular strategies to deal with minority claims.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Pluralism and Democracy
2. The Emerging Idea of the Minority in Colonial India
3. The Politics of Minority Accommodation in Postcolonial India
4. Policy Initiatives for Minorities
5. Conclusion: Learnings from India
Product details
| Published | 30 Dec 2021 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 200 |
| ISBN | 9789389812381 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic India |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd |
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