TY - BOOK AU - Samaddar, Ranabir. TI - The politics of autonomy: Indian experiences SN - 0761934529 U1 - 320.454049 PY - 2005/// CY - New Delhi PB - Sage KW - India -- Politics and government -- 1947- KW - Democracy -- India KW - Federal government -- India KW - Pluralism (Social sciences) -- India KW - Postcolonialism -- India N1 - Acknowledgements The Politics of Autonomy: An Introduction Ranabir Samaddar Part I: Genealogy 1. The Birth of the Autonomous Subject? Pradip Kumar Bose 2. Women's Autonomy: Beyond Rights and Representations Paula Banerjee 3. Where Do the Autonomous Institutions Come From? Samir Kumar Das 4. The Constitutional and Legal Routes Ashutosh Kumar 5. Autonomy's International Legal Career Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury Part II: Practices of Autonomy 6. The Ethno and the Geo: A New Look into the Issue of Kashmir's Autonomy Sanjay Chaturvedi 7. Silence under Freedom: The Strange Story of Democracy in the Darjeeling Hills Subhas Ranjan Chakrabarty 8. Autonomy in the Northeast: The Frontiers of Centralized Politics Sanjay Barbora 9. Autonomy in the Northeast: The Hills of Tripura and Mizoram Subir Bhaumik and Jayanta Bhattacharya 10. Resources for Autonomy: Financing the Local Bodies Ratan Khasnabis Bibliography Index About the Editor and Contributors ER -