Regionalism
REGIONALISM
Ethnic Conflicts, Politics of Regionalism and the Demand for NAGALIM : Perspectives On the Politics Of Regional Accommodation & Autonomy Dr Biswajit Mohapatra North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong
ABSTRACT
In the post independence era India has been witnessing a varying growth of regionalism and struggles .Regionalism in such different forms has also been accompanied by different degrees of violence. It has sought to legitimize itself by putting forward its rationale as if asking for a better deal from the Centre. The subsequent redrawing of India by creation of new states instead of contributing towards the extinction of regional sentiments has rather encouraged more people belonging to various ethnic communities to fight for new states on the basis of their language or ethnicity, thus spawning a hitherto new phenomenon, now popularly known as sub-regionalism. In the context of Nagaland, the question of Nagalim is seen by some as rather a dangerous form of regionalism, as it perceived to be based on desire, or hope, or fantasy, to form a separate nation of one's own out of all naga speaking people by integration of the contiguous areas ,has been a source for perennial ethnic conflicts between different ethnic groups living in the region. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyze the effect of regionalism and its furtherance on the ethnic groups and also on political action and attitudes and gauges the capability of it to endanger the fragile peace that exists now in the region.----------- Ethnic Conflicts, Politics of Regionalism and the Demand for NAGALIM : Perspectives On the Politics Of Regional Accommodation & Autonomy
Dr Biswajit Mohapatra North-Eastern Hill University,Shillong The long struggle for independence in India has had a profound effect not only on ethnic groups but also on the political action and attitudes of our people. With the exception of a fragile peace ensured by negotiations between the political elites at the
Ethnic Conflicts, Politics of Regionalism and the Demand for NAGALIM : Perspectives On the Politics Of Regional Accommodation & Autonomy Dr Biswajit Mohapatra North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong
ABSTRACT
In the post independence era India has been witnessing a varying growth of regionalism and struggles .Regionalism in such different forms has also been accompanied by different degrees of violence. It has sought to legitimize itself by putting forward its rationale as if asking for a better deal from the Centre. The subsequent redrawing of India by creation of new states instead of contributing towards the extinction of regional sentiments has rather encouraged more people belonging to various ethnic communities to fight for new states on the basis of their language or ethnicity, thus spawning a hitherto new phenomenon, now popularly known as sub-regionalism. In the context of Nagaland, the question of Nagalim is seen by some as rather a dangerous form of regionalism, as it perceived to be based on desire, or hope, or fantasy, to form a separate nation of one's own out of all naga speaking people by integration of the contiguous areas ,has been a source for perennial ethnic conflicts between different ethnic groups living in the region. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyze the effect of regionalism and its furtherance on the ethnic groups and also on political action and attitudes and gauges the capability of it to endanger the fragile peace that exists now in the region.----------- Ethnic Conflicts, Politics of Regionalism and the Demand for NAGALIM : Perspectives On the Politics Of Regional Accommodation & Autonomy
Dr Biswajit Mohapatra North-Eastern Hill University,Shillong The long struggle for independence in India has had a profound effect not only on ethnic groups but also on the political action and attitudes of our people. With the exception of a fragile peace ensured by negotiations between the political elites at the