The Politics of Autonomy: Indian Experiences

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.

 [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.