Decentring the Indian Nation

Andrew Wyatt is a lecturer in Politics at Bristol University and the author of articles on caste based politics and economic liberalisation in India. John Zavos is lecturer in South Asian Studies at the University of Manchester and the author of The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in India (2000), and articles on religion and politics in India.

Decentring the Indian nation; constitutional centring - nation formation and institutional legacies in India and Pakistan; redrawing the body politic - federalism, regionalism and the creation of new states in India; the continuing struggle for India's jharkhand - democracy, decentralization and the politics of names and numbers, liberal, secular democracy and explanations of Hindu nationalism; whatever happened to cultural nationalism in Tamil Nadu? A reading of current events and the recent literature on Tamil politics; a response to John Harriss; identity politics and social pluralism - political sociology and political change in Tamil Nadu.