This book investigates the factors that led to the breakdown of democracy and the rise of violent separatism in Jammu and Kashmir in the 1980's and how the risk of a large scale war has grown in South Asia in the 1990's. The book should be of interest to researchers and students of South Asian studi[...]

This book provides fresh perspectives and insights on what may be the world's largest ongoing decentralisation reforms--the Panchayat Raj reforms in India--and presents unique empirical material from Madhya Pradesh and Kerala. Comparative perspectives and references to historical cases from around t[...]

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