Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

The essays in the volume deal with diverse issues and are divided in two sections with a lucid introduction by Ranabir Samaddar… provides interesting reading… The volume infers a great deal about the future of Indian democracy and will be useful for scholars of political theory, Indian federalism and ethno-nationalist movements.
*Contributions to Indian Sociology*

 [This book] not only provides the descriptive analysis of the autonomy movements in different parts of India but more importantly the body of literature in the volume is theoretically anchored exploring the differing meanings of autonomy and the debates that veer around them.
*Mainstream*