Making federalism work

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 33-35

  Manor, James ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 4344578360     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.1998.0048     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. A 1994 Supreme Court decision requiring New Delhi to provide detailed justifications made it harder to abuse direct rule. See Ajit Mozoomdar, "The Supreme Court and President's Rule," in Balveer Arora and Douglas V. Verney, eds., Multiple Identities in a Single State (Delhi: Konark, 1995), 160-68.
2. Myron Weiner, "The Indian Paradox: Violent Social Conflict and Democratic Politics," in M. Weiner, The Indian Paradox: Essays in Indian Politics (New Delhi: Sage, 1989), 36.
3. The best study of this is Robert Jenkins, "Democratic Adjustment: Explaining the Political Sustainability of Economic Reform in India" (D.Phil thesis, University of Sussex, 1997).
4. I am grateful to D.A. Low for this insight.
5. Mark Tully and Satish Jacob, Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi's Last Battle (London, Jonathan Cape, 1985), 60.
6. Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi's Last Battle, Ibid., 60-66;
7. and Kuldip Nayar and Khushwant Singh, Tragedy of Punjab: Operation Bluestar and After (New Delhi: Vision, 1984), 36-39.
8. Tully and Jacob, Amritsar, 73-105 and 121;
9. Nayar and Singh, Tragedy of Punjab, ch. 2.
10. Sumantra Bose, The Challenge in Kashmir: Democracy, Self-Determination, and a Just Peace (New Delhi, Sage, 1996),
11. is an influential study on which I draw heavily, but it overstresses malevolent intent. Corrective accounts may be found in Victoria Schofield, Kashmir in the Crossfire (London: Harvill, 1996)
12. and Vernon Hewitt, Reclaiming the Past: The Search for Political and Cultural Unity in Contemporary Jammu and Kashmir (London: Portland, 1995).
13. Reclaiming the Past: the Search for Political and Cultural Unity in Contemporary Jammu and Kashmir, Ibid., 32.
14. Reclaiming the Past: the Search for Political and Cultural Unity in Contemporary Jammu and Kashmir, Ibid., 33-34.
15. The source for the anecdote about Nehru's request is M.J. Akbar, India: The Siege Within (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1985), 258.
16. Bose, The Challenge in Kashmir, 43.
17. Jyotirindra Dasgupta, "Community, Authenticity, and Autonomy: Insurgence and Institutional Development in India's Northeast," Journal of Asian Studies 56 (May 1997): 345.
18. B.G. Verghese, India's Northeast Resurgent: Ethnicity, Insurgency, Governance, Development (Delhi: Konark, 1996).
19. See especially Dasgupta, "Community, Authenticity," 362-68.
20. Kanti Bajpai, "Redefining India's Security" (paper presented at an International Institute of Strategic Studies seminar, Neemrana, India, September 1997), 1.