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Politics of ethnonationalism
K. N. PANIKKAR
| This work, a collection of essays, focusses on major sites of ethnonational politics |
ETHNONATIONALISM IN INDIA - A Reader: Edited by Sanjib Barua; Oxford University Press, YMCA Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi-110001. Rs. 995.
John Stuart Mill in his celebrated essay, Considerations on Representative Government, had advanced the view that democracy is “next to impossible” in multiethnic societies and completely impossible in linguistically divided countries. By this yardstick, Indian democracy is a prime candidate for collapse. Nevertheless, it has survived, even if not ideally, as a puzzle for all those who expected the doom, particularly because ethnic discontent and violence have been endemic since the inception of the Republic. The essays brought together in this collection seek to solve this puzzle.
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