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Ethnic Conflict in India: A Case-Study of Punjab

by Gurharpal Singh

Pages: 231

Contributors: Gurharpal Singh

Publisher: Macmillan Press

Place of Publication: Houndmills

Publication Year: 2000

Subjects: Communalism--India--Punjab--Case studies,Nationalism--India--Punjab--Case studies,India--Ethnic relations--Case studies,Punjab (India)--Politics and government--Case studies,Punjab (India)--Social conditions

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

List of Tables, Maps, and Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Glossary

Part 1: Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict and Indian Politics

Introduction

Notes

1: Perspectives on Ethnic Conflict in Indian Politics

Notes

2: What is Happening to the Political Science of Ethnic Conflict?

Notes

3: Reassessing 'Conventional Wisdom': Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict, and India as an Ethnic Democracy

Notes

4: The Partition of India as State Contraction: Some Unspoken Assumptions

Notes

Part 2: Punjab and the Sikhs

Introduction

Note

5: Sikh Ethnicity and Punjab

Notes

6: Hegemonic Control: Punjab Politics, 1947-84

Notes

7: Understanding the 'Punjab Problem'

Notes

Part 3 Militancy and Counterinsurgency: Restructuring Sikh Politics

Introduction

8: The 'Punjab Problem': a Post-1984 Assessment

Notes

9: The Punjab Legislative Assembly Elections, 1992: Breakthrough or Breakdown?

Notes

10: Punjab Since 1984: Disorder, Order and Legitimacy

Notes

Part 4: Hindutva, Akalis and the Bjp: the 'Punjab Problem' in a Comparative Perspective

Introduction

11: India's Akali-Bjp Alliance: the 1997 Punjab Legislative Assembly Elections

Notes

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