At the Margins
Subtitle: Discourses of Development, Democracy, and Regionalism in Odisha
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780198099154
Subjects: Democracy; Regionalism; Orissa (india), history
Description: 'At the Margins' shows how a movement of regional identity was forged in colonial Orissa in the early 20th century, how it related to the politics of Indian nationalism, and how the politics of postcolonial electoral democracy impacted this movement and the politics of Oriya identity. It breaks new ground by examining the themes of regionalism, language-based ethnicity, center-state relations, and the interrelationships between development and democracy across the notional divide of 1947.