Changing Bases of Federal Units in India (In 2 Volumes)

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The present work, which is the outcome of the research report submitted to the U.G.C. under the U.G.C. Emeritus fellowship, is the first attempt to study the evolution of federal unites in India in a holistic manner in the light of ever evolving modernization and democratization processes in India. Modernization and assimilation theories believed that primordial loyalties and ethnic identities based on race, religion, language, culture, region, etc., would disappear in the face of emerging individual autonomy, national identity, borderless consumerism, global economy, etc. The Marxists too maintained that such loyalties and identities would disappear with the growth of common class-consciousness among the working class and with the expan-ding global economy and market of the international capitalists. On the contrary such loyalties and identities have become stronger and assertive. Modern means of transport and communications have brought modern elites together to mobilize their community members to achieve territorial identity for the latter. Spread of education and study of regional history and literature have created awareness about regional identities among the members of various ethnic communities. Modern participatory democracy has provided various democratic means to the elites to organize their community members to secure territorial identities for the latter. The beginning was made in the union of divided Bengals in 1911 and in the formation of four linguistic provinces –Assam (1921), Orissa, Sind and Bihar (1936). Intensive and extensive struggles for reorganization India led to the establishment of several linguistic states in 1956 and 1960. However the struggles for new states on new bases continued. Several new states on new bases merged between 1960 and200 A.D.. By 2004 these were between eight states and twenty-right new communities/regions in the pursuit of new territorial identities. Thus the present work unfolds the stories of multi-dimensional struggles of these fifty-six communities/regions based on language, religion, ethnicity, region, etc. for territorial identifies in the light of modernization and democratization processes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.G. Patil

S.G. Patil is Professor and Head, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, India. He is also Chief Scientist on the All India Coordinated Project on Water Management. Dr. Patil has contributed a large number of articles to various journals, and is one of the editors of a book on 25 years of research in the ‘Management of salt-affected soils and use of saline water in agriculture’ published by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research. His main areas of interest are salinity management, identification of salt tolerance in crop plants and forest/horticultural species, and bio-drainage.

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Title
Changing Bases of Federal Units in India (In 2 Volumes)
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
817445361X
Length
xxvi+292p.; vi+685., Tables; Bibliography; 23cm.
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