Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas: Experiments and Experiences
Language: English
Published by New Delhi : Routledge India, 2013
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xv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents: Democracy in the Himalayan region / Vibha Arora and N. Jayaram -- The Adivasi/Janajati movement in Nepal : myths and realities of indigeneity / Gérard Toffin -- The power of script : Phālgunanda's role in the formation of Kiranti ethnicity / Martin Gaenszle -- Refiguring rights, redefining culture : hill council in Kargil, Jammu and Kashmir / Mona Bhan -- The paradox of democracy in the northeast and the eastern Himalayas / Vibha Arora -- Deep democracy or ethnocentrism? : locating voice in the protests against development in northeastern India / Duncan McDuie-Ra -- Democracy through the gun? : challenges of post-conflict reconstruction in conflict-torn Assam / Nel Vandekerckhove -- Democratic transition in Jammu and Kashmir : lessons from nature conservation interventions / Saloni Gupta -- Tibetan democracy-in-exile : the 'uniqueness' and limitations of democratic procedures in a territory-less polity / Fiona McConnell -- The ebb and flow of Nepalese democracy / Renske Doorenspleet and Bal Gopal Shrestha -- The changing discourse of social justice in Nepal / Poshendra Satyal Pravat.…
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- Title
- Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas: Experiments and Experiences
- Author
- editors, Vibha Arora, N. Jayaram
- Publisher
- New Delhi : Routledge India
- Publication year
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- Dust jacket
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0415811996
- ISBN 13
- 9780415811996
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- 1st Edition
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Historically treated as an amorphous borderland and marginal to the understanding of democratic politics and governance in South Asia, Southeast Asia and northern Asia, the Himalayan region, in the last 50 years, has become an ‘active political laboratory’ for experiments in democratic structures and institutions. In turn, it has witnessed the evolution of myriad political ideologies, movements and administrative strategies to accommodate and pacify heterogeneous ethnic-national identities.
Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas highlights how, through an ongoing process of democratisation, the Western liberal ideologies of democracy and decentralisation have interacted with varied indigenous politico-cultural ideas and institutions of an ethnic-nationally diverse population. It also reviews how formal democracy, regular elections, local self-governing structures, protection of the rights of minorities and indigenes, freedom of expression, development of mass media and formation of ethnic homelands ― all have furthered participatory democracy, empowered the traditionally marginalised groups and ensured sustainable development to varying degrees. The book provides ethnographic and historical vistas of democracy under formation, at work, being contested and even being undermined, showing how democratisation thematically stitches the independent Himalayan nations and the Indian Himalayan states into a distinctive regional political mosaic.
Combining new perspectives from comparative sociology, political anthropology and development studies, the volume will be useful for policy makers, as well as specialists, researchers and students in sociology, anthropology, area studies, development studies, and Tibet and Himalayan studies.
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About the Author
Vibha Arora is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi).
N. Jayaram is Professor of Research Methodology at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai.
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