The last three decades have witnessed the onset of the processes that have resulted in a significant shift in the nature of India’s politics and economy. Among these processes, the most significant one has been the assertion of identity politics. Increasingly democratizing India has experienced a sharp rise in the conflicting claims of different ethnic categories, and of struggles amongst them, often fought out on lines of region, religion, language (even dialect), caste, kinship and community.

Conflicting Claims In Democratizing India
Ashutosh Kumar
HANDBOOK OF POLITICS IN INDIAN STATES: REGIONS, PARTIES, AND ECONOMIC REFORMS by Sudha Pai Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014, 443 pp., 1495
March 2014, volume 38, No 3

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