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Ethnic Conflict in India

A Case-Study of Punjab

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  • © 2000

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  1. Gurharpal Singh

    1. University of Hull, UK

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  3. Punjab and the Sikhs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Introduction

      • Gurharpal Singh
      Pages 75-76

    3. Sikh Ethnicity and Punjab

      • Gurharpal Singh
      Pages 77-99

    4. Hegemonic Control: Punjab Politics, 1947–84

      • Gurharpal Singh
      Pages 100-112

    5. Understanding the ‘Punjab Problem’

      • Gurharpal Singh
      Pages 113-123

  4. Militancy and Counterinsurgency: Restructring Sikh Politics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Introduction

      • Gurharpal Singh
      Pages 127-128

    3. The ‘Punjab Problem’: a Post-1984 Assessment

      • Gurharpal Singh
      Pages 129-148

    4. The Punjab Legislative Assembly Elections, 1992: Breakthrough or Breakdown?

      • Gurharpal Singh
      Pages 149-161

    5. Punjab since 1984: Disorder, Order and Legitimacy

      • Gurharpal Singh
      Pages 162-176

  5. Hindutva, Akalis and the BJP: the ‘Punjab Problem’ in a Comparative Perspective

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Introduction

      • Gurharpal Singh
      Pages 179-180

    3. India’s Akali—BJP Alliance: the 1997 Punjab Legislative Assembly Elections

      • Gurharpal Singh
      Pages 181-193
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This important new book critically evaluates the conventional reading of ethnicity and ethnic conflict in contemporary Indian politics. By focusing on India's nation and state-building in the peripheral regions since 1947, in particular Punjab, it argues that there is a case for considering India as an ethnic democracy.

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  • University of Hull, UK

    Gurharpal Singh

About the author

GURHARPAL SINGH is Professor in Politics at the University of Hull. He has previously worked at Birkbeck College and De Montfort University. He is the author of Communism in Punjab and the co-editor of Punjabi Identity and Region and Partition: Bengal, Punjab and the Partition of the Subcontinent.

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