The Politics of Autonomy

Indian Experiences
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-7619-3453-0
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

This volume tells us that a critical inquiry into the idea of autonomy suggests that the politics of the future will be the politics of autonomies: an engagement that combines notions like self-government, women`s autonomy, devolution of power, the rights of minorities, greater popular access to resources, and legal pluralism, and where different autonomies must learn to negotiate and co-exist. Viewing democratic theory through the lens of autonomy, the contributors:

- argue that autonomy has to be an essential ingredient in the building of post-colonial democracies, not merely a residual measure to keep some constituencies happy;

- draw attention to the contending principles of autonomy, the consequent politics of autonomies, the inescapable co-existence of autonomies, and the need for dialogue; and

- analyze the instructive Indian politico-historical experience because of its diversity and range, the extent of colonial institutionalization, multiple forms of autonomy, the complex path of constitutionalism, a wide variety of accords, and the unyielding state that is determined to keep the nation intact.

In the process, the contributors traverse a wide range of issues relating to women`s autonomy, peace accords, the nature of federalism in the Indian Constitution, autonomy in international law, and the fiscal decentralization. These debates are then supported by case studies on the autonomy experiments in Kashmir, Darjeeling, and the entire Northeast, and on fiscal devolution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Samaddar, Ranabir

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Politics of Autonomy - Ranabir Samaddar
An Introduction
PART ONE: GENEALOGY
The Birth of the Autonomous Subject? - Pradip Kumar Bose
Women's Autonomy - Paula Banerjee
Beyond Rights and Representations
Where Do the Autonomous Institutions Come From? - Samir Kumar Das
The Constitutional and Legal Routes - Ashutosh Kumar
Autonomy's International Legal Career - Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
PART TWO: PRACTICES OF AUTONOMY
The Ethno and the Geo - Sanjay Chaturvedi
A New Look into the Issue of Kashmir's Autonomy
Silence Under Freedom - Subhas Ranjan Chakrabarty
The Strange Story of Democracy in the Darjeeling Hills
Autonomy in the Northeast - Sanjay Barbora
The Frontiers of Centralized Politics
Autonomy in the Northeast - Subir Bhaumik and Jayanta Bhattacharya
The Hills of Tripura and Mizoram
Resources for Autonomy: Financing the Local Bodies - Ratan Khasnabis
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Samaddar, Ranabir
Ranabir Samaddar is the Director of the Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, and belongs to the school of critical thinking. He has worked extensively on issues of justice and rights in the context of conflicts in South Asia.

Samaddar’s particular researches have spread over a wide area comprising migration and refugee studies, the theory and practices of dialogue, nationalism and postcolonial statehood in South Asia, and new regimes of technological restructuring and labour control.

His recent political writings The Emergence of the Political Subject (2009) and The Nation Form (2012) have signalled a new turn in critical postcolonial thinking and have challenged some of the prevailing accounts of the birth of nationalism and the nation state.