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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