Heidelberg Papers in South Asian
and Comparative Politics (HPSACP)


ISSN: 1617-5069
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Editor:
Subrata K. Mitra

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Authors
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  • Abbi, Anvita
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  • Alam, Mohammed B.
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  • Alam, Mohammed Badrul
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  • Bagchi, Barnita
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  • Bates, Crispin
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  • Bhattacharyya, Harihar
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  • Bigdon, Christine
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  • Cheema, Pervaiz Iqbal
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  • Collins, Michael
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  • Datta Gupta, Sobhanlal
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  • Datta, Prabhat
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  • Deliège, Robert
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  • Devkota, Surendra R.
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  • Duindam, Jeroen
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  • Fischer, Alexander, M.A.
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  • Frey, Karsten
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  • Ghosh, Partha S.
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  • Hasnain, Imtiaz
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  • Hegewald, Julia A.B.
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  • Hoeber Rudolph, Susanne
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  • Hust, Evelin
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  • Hönig, Patrick
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  • Jaffrelot, Christophe
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  • Kidwai, Ayesha
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  • Lehr, Peter
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  • Lu, Yang
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  • McPherson, Kenneth
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  • Mehra, Ajay K.
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  • Menski, Werner
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  • Mentschel, Binalakhsmi Nepram
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  • Mirza, Nasrullah M.
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  • Mitra, Subrata K.
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  • Mitra, Subrata Kumar
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  • Molla, Gyasuddin
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  • Mukherjee, Soumen
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  • Nandy, Ashis
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  • Pfetsch, Frank R.
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  • Roberts, Michael
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  • Rudolph, Lloyd I.
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  • Sahni, Binda
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  • Sarangi, Prakash
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  • Schwecke, Sebastian
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  • Sen, Kunal
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  • Sen, Ronojoy
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  • Sonntag, Selma K.
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  • Spieß, Clemens
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  • Srinivasan, Vasanthi
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  • Wagner, Christian
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  • Walter, Marie
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  • Wirsing, Robert G.

      
    India Between Scylla and Charybdis: Negotiating the Cliff of Federalism
    Authors: Hönig, Patrick
    Year: 2009
    No. 50, October 2009; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Democratic Decentralization through Panchayati Raj in Contemporary India: The Changes and Challenges
    Authors: Datta, Prabhat
    Year: 2009
    No. 49, September 2009; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Dynastic Centres in Europe and Asia : A Layout for Comparison
    Authors: Duindam, Jeroen
    Year: 2009
    No. 48, June 2009; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    What a long, strange Trip it’s been: Reflections on India’s Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century
    Authors: Sen, Kunal
    Year: 2009
    No. 47, April 2009; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Economic Citizenship in India : A Socio-Legal Comparison of Two Cases
    Authors: Sahni, Binda
    Year: 2009
    No. 46, April 2009; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Conceptualizing Reform and Building Consensus : Islam in South Asia, and some Aspects of Leadership Patterns and Political Consciousness
    Authors: Mukherjee, Soumen
    Year: 2009
    No. 45, March 2009; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    The Demonic and the Seductive in Religious Nationalism : Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and the Rites of Exorcism in Secularizing South Asia
    Authors: Nandy, Ashis
    Year: 2009
    No. 44, February 2009; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    In Pursuit of a Grand Strategy: An Explanation of Pakistan’s Evolving Nuclear Policy
    Authors: Alam, Mohammed Badrul
    Year: 2008
    No. 43, December 2008; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Rabindranath Tagore and Nationalism: An Interpretation
    Authors: Collins, Michael
    Year: 2008
    No. 42, October 2008; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Rivers in Contention: Is There a Water War in South Asia’s Future?
    Authors: Wirsing, Robert G.
    Year: 2008
    No. 41, October 2008; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    India's Experiment with Revolution
    Authors: Mehra, Ajay K.
    Year: 2008
    No. 40, September 2008; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    The Punjab Crisis: A disastrous case of failed negotiations
    Authors: Walter, Marie
    Year: 2008
    No. 39, June 2008; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Communism in search of Hegemony in South Asia: the Case of Nepal
    Authors: Datta Gupta, Sobhanlal
    Year: 2008
    No. 38, April 2008; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Water, War, and Peace:Linkages and Scenarios in India-Pakistan Relations
    Authors: Mirza, Nasrullah M.
    Year: 2008
    No. 37, February 2008; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Jagannatha Compared:The politics of appropriation, re-use and regional traditions in India
    Authors: Hegewald, Julia A.B. ; Mitra, Subrata K.
    Year: 2008
    No. 36, January 2008; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Hannah Arendt, Education, and Liberation : A Comparative South Asian Feminist Perspective
    Authors: Bagchi, Barnita
    Year: 2008
    No. 35, January 2008; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Which Road to Social Revolution? Liberalization and Constitutional Reform in India
    Authors: Fischer, Alexander, M.A.
    Year: 2007
    No. 34, December 2007; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Armed Conflict, Small Arms Proliferation and Women's Responses to Armed Violence in India's Northeast
    Authors: Mentschel, Binalakhsmi Nepram
    Year: 2007
    No. 33, December 2007; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Blunders in Tigerland: Pape's Muddles on "Suicide Bombers" in Sri Lanka
    Authors: Roberts, Michael
    Year: 2007
    No. 32, November 2007; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Looking Beyond the Border: The Sino-Indian Border Dispute and Sino-Indian Relations
    Authors: Lu, Yang
    Year: 2007
    No. 31, August 2007; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Voters, Institutions and Governance: A Theory and Evidence from the Indian Elections in 2004
    Authors: Sarangi, Prakash
    Year: 2007
    No. 30, Februar 2007, Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Defining Religion: The Indian Supreme Court and Hinduism
    Authors: Sen, Ronojoy
    Year: 2006
    No. 29, February 2006; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    The Novelty of Europe as seen from the Periphery: Indian Perception of the 'New Europe' in a Multi-polar world
    Authors: Mitra, Subrata K.
    Year: 2005
    No. 28, April 2006; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Federalism and Regionalism in India : Institutional Strategies and Political Accommodation of Identity
    Authors: Bhattacharyya, Harihar
    Year: 2005
    No. 27, May 2005; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    From Hard Power to Soft Power? Ideas, Interaction, Institutions, and Images in India's South Asia Policy
    Authors: Wagner, Christian
    Year: 2005
    No. 26, March 2005; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    The Politics of Poverty Alleviation in Nepal : Structural Analysis of Socioeconomic Development from the Past Five Decades
    Authors: Devkota, Surendra R.
    Year: 2005
    No. 25, February 2005; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Whose Language is Urdu?
    Authors: Abbi, Anvita ; Hasnain, Imtiaz ; Kidwai, Ayesha
    Year: 2004
    No. 24, September 2004; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics
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    Religious Diversity and the Colonial State : Hindu-Muslim Relations under British Rule
    Authors: McPherson, Kenneth
    Year: 2004
    No. 23, August 2004; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Relating Spirituality and Politics: Love, Marriage or Friendship?
    Authors: Srinivasan, Vasanthi
    Year: 2004
    No. 22, August 2004; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    National Minority Rights in the Himalayas
    Authors: Sonntag, Selma K.
    Year: 2004
    No. 21, June 2004; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    From Dharma to Law and Back? Postmodern Hindu Law in a Global World
    Authors: Menski, Werner
    Year: 2004
    No. 20, January 2004; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Collective Violence and the Making of Civil Society : India in European Perspective
    Authors: Mitra, Subrata Kumar
    Year: 2003
    No. 19, October 2003; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    The Rationality of Politics in Uttar Pradesh : Towards a Re-evaluation of the Concept of Factionalism
    Authors: Schwecke, Sebastian
    Year: 2003
    No. 18, July 2003; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Communal Riots in Gujarat: The State at Risk?
    Authors: Jaffrelot, Christophe
    Year: 2003
    No. 17, July 2003; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Democratic Peace in South Asia?
    Authors: Wagner, Christian
    Year: 2003
    No. 16, June 2003; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    The Coffee House and the Ashram: Gandhi, Civil Society and Public Spheres
    Authors: Hoeber Rudolph, Susanne ; Rudolph, Lloyd I.
    Year: 2003
    No. 15, June 2003; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Decentralization, Federalism and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka
    Authors: Bigdon, Christine
    Year: 2003
    No. 14, May 2003; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    The Challenge of Security in the Indian Ocean in the 21st Century : Plus ça change...?
    Authors: Lehr, Peter
    Year: 2002
    No. 13, November 2002; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Measuring Conflicts in South Asian Countries (1945-2002)
    Authors: Pfetsch, Frank R.
    Year: 2002
    No. 12, November 2002; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    India’s Nuclear Doctrine : Context and Constraints
    Authors: Alam, Mohammed B.
    Year: 2002
    No. 11, October 2002; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    One-Party-Dominance in Changing Societies: The ANC and INC in Comparative Perspective
    Authors: Spieß, Clemens
    Year: 2002
    No. 10, October 2002; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Emerging Major Powers and the International System: Significance of the Indian View
    Authors: Mitra, Subrata Kumar
    Year: 2002
    No. 09, October 2002; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    State Interests and Symbolism in India’s Nuclear Build-Up
    Authors: Frey, Karsten
    Year: 2002
    No. 08, October 2002; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    From Legalism to Realism in Kashmir : Internationalising the Line of Control
    Authors: Ghosh, Partha S.
    Year: 2002
    No. 07, September 2002; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Political Representation and Empowerment : Women in the Institutions of Local Government in Orissa after the 73rd Amendment to the Indian Constitution
    Authors: Hust, Evelin
    Year: 2002
    No. 06, August 2002; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Is There Still Untouchability in India?
    Authors: Deliège, Robert
    Year: 2002
    No. 05, June 2002; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Constitutional Design, Democratic Vote Counting, and India's Fortuitous Multiculturalism
    Authors: Mitra, Subrata K.
    Year: 2001
    No. 04, November 2001, Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Democratic Institution Building Process in Bangladesh : South Asian Experience of a New Model of a 'Care-taker Government' in a Parliamentary Framework
    Authors: Molla, Gyasuddin
    Year: 2000
    No. 03, December 2000; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    Communalism and Identity among South Asians in Diaspora
    Authors: Bates, Crispin
    Year: 2000
    No. 02, September 2000; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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    The Politics of the Punjab Boundary Award
    Authors: Cheema, Pervaiz Iqbal
    Year: 2000
    No. 01, September 2000; Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics, ISSN: 1617-5069
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