Negotiating Conflict and Accommodating Identity in South Asia

Contents: 1. Introduction: Setting the Context/Radhu Carciumaru. 2. Ethno-Regional Identity Conflicts in India: Institutionalization, Accommodation and Political Order/Harihar Bhattacharyya.  3. India between Scylla and Charybdis: Negotiating the Cliff of Federalism/Patrick Honig. 4. Whose Language is Urdu?/Anvita Abbi, Imtiaz Hasnain and Ayesha Kidwai. 5. Defining Religion: The Indian Supreme Court and Hinduism/Ronojoy Sen. 6. Modular Projects: Socio-Religious Sensibilities and Political Imagination Among and Daudi Bohras in Modern South Asia/Soumen Mukherjee. 7. A Tale Begun in Other Days: Understanding Caste as Social Exclusion in India/Prashant Negi.