Introduction : the compromise politics of statehood -- Territorial design and federal thought in India -- Social movements, political parties and statehood : Jharkhand and Uttarakhand -- Statehood without a movement : Chhattisgarh -- The view from the state capitals -- Federal politics and the creation of new states in 2000 -- After 2000 : rurther reorganisation? -- Conclusion
Summary
There is widespread consensus today that the constitutional flexibility to alter state boundaries has bolstered the stability of India's democracy. Yet debates persist about whether more states should be created. 'Remapping India' looks at the episode of state creation in 2000, when the states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Uttarakhand came into being in some of the poorest, yet resource-rich, regions of Hindi-speaking north and central India, and explains the politics that lay behind this episode of 'post-linguistic' state reorganisation
