POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Indira Gandhi, Shiromani Akali Dal, Khalistan Movement
22 Apr 2013
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These conflicts are key to india"s federal structure. Ethnic b/c they contain an ethnic component in addition to demands for greater sovereignty. Overlap between ethnicity and demands for greater autonomy. Separation of responsibilities between the union gov"t and the states. Linguistic reorganization thought to have quelled potential secessionist conflicts. Accommodation of demands and formation of new states. Empirically, the system does have enough flexibility to accommodate certain demands. Subregional demands to split up maharashtra or andhra pradesh into sub states. Accommodation and management of demands for regional autonomy. Three tiers of demands (national - hyderabad, regional andhra, subregional telangana) Late 1960s congress managed to quell the telangana agitations through a series of. Creation of a separate dravidian state outside the indian union. Movement started as an anti-brahmin caste demands under the british. Under independence moved to a more regional nationalist movement. Demands on the basis of caste to dravidian identity to language.
