Nationalism and Regionalism in India: The Case of Orissa

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This study addresses the issues of nationalism and regionalism in the empirical situation of Orissa within the multicultural context of India. By focusing on the Oriya situation the study basically highlights two major forms of conflict–regional nationalism and regionalism in multicultural and or multinational countries such as India. To differentiate these two forms of conflict the study, as a point of departure, makes a distinction between political nationalism and cultural nationalism. The former is associated with nationalism at the macro-national level and the latter with nationalism at the regional level in multicultural/multinational context. The study mainly argues that the movement for preservation of regional cultural identity in a provincial space in India is a form of nationalism and that regionalism in India primarily results from regional developmental disparities and unequal distribution of political power and authority. The study will be of interest to students and teachers of sociology, anthropology, history, political science and the general reader interested in nationalism and regionalism in multicultural countries.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Subrat K. Nanda

Subrat K. Nanda is currently working as a faculty member in the department of Rural Development and Agricultural Production at the North-Eastern Hill University, Tura campus, Tura, Meghalaya. He has obtained his M. Phil. and Doctoral degree in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He joined North-Eastern Hill University in December 1988 and he taught at different campuses of NEHU. He has about a dozen articles to his credit published in different national journals, magazines and edited books. He has also participated in a few national and international seminars and conferences. His areas of interest broadly include social movements, political sociology, social change, religion and religious communities, democracy and cultural pluralism, ethnic minorities and the cultural and political aspects of globalisation. Recently, he is engaged in writing a volume entitled, 'Nationality Question in Northeast India'.