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    Asymmetric Federalism and the Question of Democratic Justice in Northeast India
    ( 2014-01-01) Hausing, Kham Khan Suan
    This article intends to fill a glaring void in the existing academic literature on the issues and challenges which stem not only from crafting, but also making asymmetric federalism work in northeast India. It examines the extent and limits to which asymmetric federalism-specifically under Article 371A of India's Constitution-not only negotiates Nagas' sovereignty claims over their land and resources and caters to the demands of democratic justice, but also the extent to which it consolidates India's state-nation and democracy building in its northeastern periphery. Contending that the extant asymmetric federal arrangement in India's polity stems from a centralist federal framework, the article makes a case for a more robust asymmetric federalism, which goes beyond this framework. Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
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    Autonomy and the territorial management of ethnic conflicts in Northeast India
    ( 2022-01-01) Hausing, Kham Khan Suan
    This article draws a typology of autonomy in the Northeast to examine how the Indian state territorially manages ethnic conflicts in its periphery. The differential nature and history of conflicts, and timing and mode of negotiation, are used as two broad explanatory variables to account for when, how and under what circumstances the Indian state is likely to recognize and accommodate self-determination/self-rule claims of territorially concentrated tribal groups, and simultaneously foster peace and stability. While timely, yet partial, recognition and accommodation of self-determination/self-rule claims of the Naga, Bodo and Manipur’s tribal groups are considered necessary to promote peace and stability, they are found to be insufficient conditions to promote durable peace and stability unless they are supplemented by robust identity-preserving powers over land and resources, on the one hand, and power-sharing not only across India’s multilevel federal polity–Centre, State and sub-State – but also within and across tribal/non-tribal groups, on the other hand. These findings have resonance in other deeply divided places, inter alia, Cyprus and Iraq where the failure to simultaneously recognize self-determination claims and envision robust power-sharing entail stalemated conflicts and instability.
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    'Equality as tradition' and women's reservation in Nagaland
    ( 2017-11-11) Hausing, Kham Khan Suan
    Drawing on the purported attempts to give 33% reservation to women in Nagaland's urban local bodies as a test case, an analysis is made of how misleading the presumption and claim of "equality as tradition" could be in a supposedly "egalitarian" Naga society. Patriarchally structured deliberations, consultations and decision-making procedures adopted by the Government of Nagaland and the judiciary have failed to accord equal participation and effective voice to women.
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    From opposition to acquiescence the 2015 district council elections in Manipur
    ( 2015-11-21) Hausing, Kham Khan Suan
    The debut of Nagaland People's Front in the 2015 district council elections in Manipur with the tacit support of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) and United Naga Council marks a change in Naga politics - a change from politics of opposition to politics of acquiescence. These elections also underscore a new pattern of localisation of politics, where localised ethnic agenda and armed groups have influenced the distribution of tickets and electoral outcomes. It is contended that this prevailing trend may redefine the electoral politics in the state and open up new sites of conflict in Manipur not only between the hills and valley people but also between hill communities.
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    Indian federalism at the crossroads: Limits of the territorial management of ethnic conflict
    ( 2017-01-02) Bhattacharyya, Harihar ; Hausing, Kham Khan Suan ; Mukherjee, Jhumpa
    This article critically examines territorial strategies adopted by the Indian state to accommodate territorially concentrated minority groups in two very recent cases: the formation of Telangana (2014) and the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) (2003). We situate both cases within the broader context of linguistic state reorganization in India since the 1950s. We argue that while the formation of states on the basis of linguistic principle was necessary given the long history of demand for linguistic states in India, it is, as Telangana and BTC clearly bear out, not sufficient to accommodate minorities. This is especially the case when, inter alia, language is: (1) appropriated by the dominant group within a state (or states) as a vehicle to perpetuate political majoritarianism, (2) supplemented by weak power-sharing arrangement, and (3) occasioned by longstanding popular perceptions of historical injustices and relative deprivation.
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    Telangana and the politics of State formation in India: Recognition and accommodation in a multinational federation
    ( 2018-08-08) Hausing, Kham Khan Suan
    This article examines the politics of State formation in India by taking up the case of Telangana. Drawing from the emerging literature on the politics of recognition and territorial accommodation in multinational federations, I argue that territorial accommodation of Telangana was made possible by the convergence of strategic interests and role of multiple actors to recognize Telangana’s distinctive territorial identity and accommodate its Statehood demand when an opportune ‘political opportunity structure’ emerged in the late 1990s till 2014. It extends the insights of ‘actor-centred’ institutionalism and contributes to an emerging literature which emphasizes the ‘multi-centred origins’ of border change and State formation in India in particular, and in multinational federations in general. By underscoring State formation as a complex process, this article cautions against a simplistic reading of the politics of State formation in India as an act of one-upmanship whereby the Centre can unilaterally make or break State borders.