Ethnic Conflict in India: A Case-Study of Punjab

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-4
Perspectives on Ethnic Conflict in Indian Politics....Pages 5-20
What is Happening to the Political Science of Ethnic Conflict?....Pages 21-34
Reassessing ‘Conventional Wisdom’: Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict, and India as an Ethnic Democracy....Pages 35-55
The Partition of India as State Contraction: Some Unspoken Assumptions....Pages 56-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
Introduction....Pages 75-76
Sikh Ethnicity and Punjab....Pages 77-99
Hegemonic Control: Punjab Politics, 1947–84....Pages 100-112
Understanding the ‘Punjab Problem’....Pages 113-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Introduction....Pages 127-128
The ‘Punjab Problem’: a Post-1984 Assessment....Pages 129-148
The Punjab Legislative Assembly Elections, 1992: Breakthrough or Breakdown?....Pages 149-161
Punjab since 1984: Disorder, Order and Legitimacy....Pages 162-176
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Introduction....Pages 179-180
India’s Akali—BJP Alliance: the 1997 Punjab Legislative Assembly Elections....Pages 181-193
Resizing and Reshaping the Indian State: the ‘Punjab Problem’ in a Comparative Perspective....Pages 194-222
Back Matter....Pages 223-231