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Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas - Experiments and Experiences (Paperback)
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Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas - Experiments and Experiences (Paperback)
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Historically treated as an amorphous borderland and marginal to the
understanding of democratic politics and governance in South Asia,
Southeast Asia and northern Asia, the Himalayan region, in the last
50 years, has become an 'active political laboratory' for
experiments in democratic structures and institutions. In turn, it
has witnessed the evolution of myriad political ideologies,
movements and administrative strategies to accommodate and pacify
heterogeneous ethnic-national identities. Routeing Democracy in the
Himalayas highlights how, through an ongoing process of
democratisation, the Western liberal ideologies of democracy and
decentralisation have interacted with varied indigenous
politico-cultural ideas and institutions of an ethnic-nationally
diverse population. It also reviews how formal democracy, regular
elections, local self-governing structures, protection of the
rights of minorities and indigenes, freedom of expression,
development of mass media and formation of ethnic homelands - all
have furthered participatory democracy, empowered the traditionally
marginalised groups and ensured sustainable development to varying
degrees. The book provides ethnographic and historical vistas of
democracy under formation, at work, being contested and even being
undermined, showing how democratisation thematically stitches the
independent Himalayan nations and the Indian Himalayan states into
a distinctive regional political mosaic. Combining new perspectives
from comparative sociology, political anthropology and development
studies, the volume will be useful for policy makers, as well as
specialists, researchers and students in sociology, anthropology,
area studies, development studies, and Tibet and Himalayan studies.
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