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Papers by Maya Chadda
India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, Oct 1, 1981
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2004
In the August issue of the Chronicle of Higher Educations, Ann Overland reported on the dismal st... more In the August issue of the Chronicle of Higher Educations, Ann Overland reported on the dismal state of access to higher education in India. She wrote," Until the admissions season for the fall session ends in July, the principal of Tolani College of Commerce is virtually a ...
Lynne Rienner Publishers eBooks, Dec 31, 2014
Lynne Rienner Publishers eBooks, Jun 1, 2000
Populi, 1980
Public officials must win the trust of rural communities before they will accept new modes of tho... more Public officials must win the trust of rural communities before they will accept new modes of thought and action. A village in India is a world in which lines of caste and tradition have been drawn; rules weld the village into a unit of interaction. Anyone who wants to promote family planning must enter the world of the village find its language and work on the aspirations and concerns that are a part of that world. People in villages are not irrational in their beliefs nor are modern practices necessarily in opposition to village practices. Village politics favor the high caste and the prosperous who have no need of change. The poor live such precarious lives it is difficult for them to take risks with the traditional way of life. In Indian villages the family planning message had to be couched in a concrete imagery that links population growth causally to the specific conditions of a household. Caste income village politics and the availability of opportunities must be considered factors determining the size family a person will have. A woman at a laparoscopy camp in Mehuwa village saw a poster with a picture of Laxmi the goddess of prosperity on it. To her the presence of Laxmi meant that obtaining a laparoscopy operation would ensure prosperity. Local dramas verse legends and myths can be used to convey the family planning message in ways the village inhabitants can understand and appreciate.
Outside the Soviet imperium, India was one of the non-Communist countries perhaps most seriously ... more Outside the Soviet imperium, India was one of the non-Communist countries perhaps most seriously affected by the sudden demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Since the middle of 1980, India had presented a strange paradox. The decade of the 1980s had witnessed a steady expansion in India’s defense capabilities making it a formidable military power in the region. The previous investments in defense production and technology had matured to give India impressive conventional and strategic capabilities. By early 1992, India was a nuclear weapons capable state on the threshold of its own missile production program. However, these same years had also seen a steady decline in India’s political stability. It had become increasingly vulnerable to external interference, and separ-atist challenges to its territorial integrity. These trends were only exacerbated further by the developments in the 1990s. How can one explain this paradox of weakness and strength?
Political Science Quarterly, 2000
Foreign Affairs, 1986
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WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks, Mar 1, 2022
India is a land of myriad ethnic, religious, caste and linguistic minorities affiliated to distin... more India is a land of myriad ethnic, religious, caste and linguistic minorities affiliated to distinct belief systems, sub-cultures and regions. Integration of these diverse communities-some large enough to aspire to a regional homeland and others content to remain as part of the Indian state-has been a central preoccupation of Indian governments since 1947. This study explores India's policies and practice towards minorities, and three violent ethnic conflicts: the Sikh struggle for an independent state in the Punjab region; the Kashmiri Muslim demand for the separation of the states of Jammu and Kashmir from India; and the Naga claims to an independent state of Nagalim in the northeast. While these regions have experienced turmoil, other parts of India have been peacefully integrated, or at least have witnessed no violent insurgencies. This study seeks to explain the failures in Punjab, Indian Jammu and Kashmir (IJK) and Nagaland 1 in the context of a representative case of comparatively successful ethnic integration of the Tamil people in the state of Tamil Nadu. It suggests that failures to integrate are caused by (1) denial of democratic rights to minorities, (2) lack of political participation on the part of minorities, (3) interference by the central government and also (4) serious human rights violations by the state.
Ethnopolitics, 2009
Fiona Adamson, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK; Katharine Adeney, University of Sheffi... more Fiona Adamson, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK; Katharine Adeney, University of Sheffield, UK; Dominique Arel, University of Ottawa, Canada; Judy Batt, University of Birmingham and EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris; Florian Bieber, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK; Richard Caplan, University of Oxford, UK; David Crowe, Elon University, USA; Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, Princeton University, USA; Milton Esman, Cornell University, USA; Niraja Gopal Jayal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; Michael Hechter, Arizona State University, USA; Kristin Henrard, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Donald Horowitz, Duke University, USA; Michael Keating, European University Institute, Florence; Caroline KennedyPipe, University of Warwick, UK; Maria Kovacs, Central European University, Budapest; Alan Kuperman, University of Texas, USA; Will Kymlicka, Queen’s University, Canada; John McGarry, Queen’s University, Canada; Troy McGrath, International Education Solutions, Russia; Mairead Nic Craith, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK; Brendan O’Leary, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Gerd Nonneman, IAIS, University of Exeter, UK; John Packer, University of Essex, UK; Steve Sabol, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA; Ulrich Schneckener, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany; Stefan Troebst, University of Leipzig, Germany; Marc Weller, University of Cambridge and European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany
India Review, 2019
ABSTRACT This article explores new lines of conceptualization to understand India’s regional beha... more ABSTRACT This article explores new lines of conceptualization to understand India’s regional behavior. It argues that the twin concepts of relational power and domestic balance of forces provide better insights into India’s post-Cold war responses than some of the available explanations. It allows us to connect the domestic and external dimensions of policy and identify the cluster of state and non-state actors that shape policy responses. Imagining India’s regional behavior in relational terms allows us to better explain the gap between power and policies, what current literature has identified as the key puzzle in India’s foreign policy behavior.
The Struggle Against Corruption, 2004
In the August issue of the Chronicle of Higher Educations, Ann Overland reported on the dismal st... more In the August issue of the Chronicle of Higher Educations, Ann Overland reported on the dismal state of access to higher education in India. She wrote," Until the admissions season for the fall session ends in July, the principal of Tolani College of Commerce is virtually a ...
The Roles of the United States, Russia and China in the New World Order, 1997
Outside the Soviet imperium, India was one of the non-Communist countries perhaps most seriously ... more Outside the Soviet imperium, India was one of the non-Communist countries perhaps most seriously affected by the sudden demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Since the middle of 1980, India had presented a strange paradox. The decade of the 1980s had witnessed a steady expansion in India’s defense capabilities making it a formidable military power in the region. The previous investments in defense production and technology had matured to give India impressive conventional and strategic capabilities. By early 1992, India was a nuclear weapons capable state on the threshold of its own missile production program. However, these same years had also seen a steady decline in India’s political stability. It had become increasingly vulnerable to external interference, and separ-atist challenges to its territorial integrity. These trends were only exacerbated further by the developments in the 1990s. How can one explain this paradox of weakness and strength?
This repository item contains a single issue of the Pardee Conference Series, a publication serie... more This repository item contains a single issue of the Pardee Conference Series, a publication series that began publishing in 2006 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. This was the Center's spring Conference that took place during April 1, 2, and 3, 2005.
The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, 2003
Federations are not an automatic institutional panacea for ethnic conflict as Chadda acknowledges... more Federations are not an automatic institutional panacea for ethnic conflict as Chadda acknowledges. This is because they can be majoritarian structures of government. Autonomy is meaningless without inclusion within the wider federation, which the current era of ...
India is a land of myriad ethnic, religious, caste and linguistic minorities affiliated to distin... more India is a land of myriad ethnic, religious, caste and linguistic minorities affiliated to distinct belief systems, sub-cultures and regions. Integration of these diverse communities – some large enough to aspire to a regional homeland and others content to remain as part of the Indian state – has been a central preoccupation of Indian governments since 1947. This study explores India’s policies and practice towards minorities, and three violent ethnic conflicts: the Sikh struggle for an independent state in the Punjab region; the Kashmiri Muslim demand for the separation of the states of Jammu and Kashmir from India; and the Naga claims to an independent state of Nagalim in the north-east. While these regions have experienced turmoil, other parts of India have been peacefully integrated, or at least have witnessed no violent insurgencies. This study seeks to explain the failures in Punjab, Indian Jammu and Kashmir (IJK) and Nagaland in the context of a representative case of compar...
India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs, Oct 1, 1981
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks, 2004
In the August issue of the Chronicle of Higher Educations, Ann Overland reported on the dismal st... more In the August issue of the Chronicle of Higher Educations, Ann Overland reported on the dismal state of access to higher education in India. She wrote," Until the admissions season for the fall session ends in July, the principal of Tolani College of Commerce is virtually a ...
Lynne Rienner Publishers eBooks, Dec 31, 2014
Lynne Rienner Publishers eBooks, Jun 1, 2000
Populi, 1980
Public officials must win the trust of rural communities before they will accept new modes of tho... more Public officials must win the trust of rural communities before they will accept new modes of thought and action. A village in India is a world in which lines of caste and tradition have been drawn; rules weld the village into a unit of interaction. Anyone who wants to promote family planning must enter the world of the village find its language and work on the aspirations and concerns that are a part of that world. People in villages are not irrational in their beliefs nor are modern practices necessarily in opposition to village practices. Village politics favor the high caste and the prosperous who have no need of change. The poor live such precarious lives it is difficult for them to take risks with the traditional way of life. In Indian villages the family planning message had to be couched in a concrete imagery that links population growth causally to the specific conditions of a household. Caste income village politics and the availability of opportunities must be considered factors determining the size family a person will have. A woman at a laparoscopy camp in Mehuwa village saw a poster with a picture of Laxmi the goddess of prosperity on it. To her the presence of Laxmi meant that obtaining a laparoscopy operation would ensure prosperity. Local dramas verse legends and myths can be used to convey the family planning message in ways the village inhabitants can understand and appreciate.
Outside the Soviet imperium, India was one of the non-Communist countries perhaps most seriously ... more Outside the Soviet imperium, India was one of the non-Communist countries perhaps most seriously affected by the sudden demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Since the middle of 1980, India had presented a strange paradox. The decade of the 1980s had witnessed a steady expansion in India’s defense capabilities making it a formidable military power in the region. The previous investments in defense production and technology had matured to give India impressive conventional and strategic capabilities. By early 1992, India was a nuclear weapons capable state on the threshold of its own missile production program. However, these same years had also seen a steady decline in India’s political stability. It had become increasingly vulnerable to external interference, and separ-atist challenges to its territorial integrity. These trends were only exacerbated further by the developments in the 1990s. How can one explain this paradox of weakness and strength?
Political Science Quarterly, 2000
Foreign Affairs, 1986
An academic directory and search engine.
WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks, Mar 1, 2022
India is a land of myriad ethnic, religious, caste and linguistic minorities affiliated to distin... more India is a land of myriad ethnic, religious, caste and linguistic minorities affiliated to distinct belief systems, sub-cultures and regions. Integration of these diverse communities-some large enough to aspire to a regional homeland and others content to remain as part of the Indian state-has been a central preoccupation of Indian governments since 1947. This study explores India's policies and practice towards minorities, and three violent ethnic conflicts: the Sikh struggle for an independent state in the Punjab region; the Kashmiri Muslim demand for the separation of the states of Jammu and Kashmir from India; and the Naga claims to an independent state of Nagalim in the northeast. While these regions have experienced turmoil, other parts of India have been peacefully integrated, or at least have witnessed no violent insurgencies. This study seeks to explain the failures in Punjab, Indian Jammu and Kashmir (IJK) and Nagaland 1 in the context of a representative case of comparatively successful ethnic integration of the Tamil people in the state of Tamil Nadu. It suggests that failures to integrate are caused by (1) denial of democratic rights to minorities, (2) lack of political participation on the part of minorities, (3) interference by the central government and also (4) serious human rights violations by the state.
Ethnopolitics, 2009
Fiona Adamson, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK; Katharine Adeney, University of Sheffi... more Fiona Adamson, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK; Katharine Adeney, University of Sheffield, UK; Dominique Arel, University of Ottawa, Canada; Judy Batt, University of Birmingham and EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris; Florian Bieber, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK; Richard Caplan, University of Oxford, UK; David Crowe, Elon University, USA; Wolfgang Danspeckgruber, Princeton University, USA; Milton Esman, Cornell University, USA; Niraja Gopal Jayal, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; Michael Hechter, Arizona State University, USA; Kristin Henrard, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Donald Horowitz, Duke University, USA; Michael Keating, European University Institute, Florence; Caroline KennedyPipe, University of Warwick, UK; Maria Kovacs, Central European University, Budapest; Alan Kuperman, University of Texas, USA; Will Kymlicka, Queen’s University, Canada; John McGarry, Queen’s University, Canada; Troy McGrath, International Education Solutions, Russia; Mairead Nic Craith, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK; Brendan O’Leary, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Gerd Nonneman, IAIS, University of Exeter, UK; John Packer, University of Essex, UK; Steve Sabol, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA; Ulrich Schneckener, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany; Stefan Troebst, University of Leipzig, Germany; Marc Weller, University of Cambridge and European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany
India Review, 2019
ABSTRACT This article explores new lines of conceptualization to understand India’s regional beha... more ABSTRACT This article explores new lines of conceptualization to understand India’s regional behavior. It argues that the twin concepts of relational power and domestic balance of forces provide better insights into India’s post-Cold war responses than some of the available explanations. It allows us to connect the domestic and external dimensions of policy and identify the cluster of state and non-state actors that shape policy responses. Imagining India’s regional behavior in relational terms allows us to better explain the gap between power and policies, what current literature has identified as the key puzzle in India’s foreign policy behavior.
The Struggle Against Corruption, 2004
In the August issue of the Chronicle of Higher Educations, Ann Overland reported on the dismal st... more In the August issue of the Chronicle of Higher Educations, Ann Overland reported on the dismal state of access to higher education in India. She wrote," Until the admissions season for the fall session ends in July, the principal of Tolani College of Commerce is virtually a ...
The Roles of the United States, Russia and China in the New World Order, 1997
Outside the Soviet imperium, India was one of the non-Communist countries perhaps most seriously ... more Outside the Soviet imperium, India was one of the non-Communist countries perhaps most seriously affected by the sudden demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Since the middle of 1980, India had presented a strange paradox. The decade of the 1980s had witnessed a steady expansion in India’s defense capabilities making it a formidable military power in the region. The previous investments in defense production and technology had matured to give India impressive conventional and strategic capabilities. By early 1992, India was a nuclear weapons capable state on the threshold of its own missile production program. However, these same years had also seen a steady decline in India’s political stability. It had become increasingly vulnerable to external interference, and separ-atist challenges to its territorial integrity. These trends were only exacerbated further by the developments in the 1990s. How can one explain this paradox of weakness and strength?
This repository item contains a single issue of the Pardee Conference Series, a publication serie... more This repository item contains a single issue of the Pardee Conference Series, a publication series that began publishing in 2006 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. This was the Center's spring Conference that took place during April 1, 2, and 3, 2005.
The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, 2003
Federations are not an automatic institutional panacea for ethnic conflict as Chadda acknowledges... more Federations are not an automatic institutional panacea for ethnic conflict as Chadda acknowledges. This is because they can be majoritarian structures of government. Autonomy is meaningless without inclusion within the wider federation, which the current era of ...
India is a land of myriad ethnic, religious, caste and linguistic minorities affiliated to distin... more India is a land of myriad ethnic, religious, caste and linguistic minorities affiliated to distinct belief systems, sub-cultures and regions. Integration of these diverse communities – some large enough to aspire to a regional homeland and others content to remain as part of the Indian state – has been a central preoccupation of Indian governments since 1947. This study explores India’s policies and practice towards minorities, and three violent ethnic conflicts: the Sikh struggle for an independent state in the Punjab region; the Kashmiri Muslim demand for the separation of the states of Jammu and Kashmir from India; and the Naga claims to an independent state of Nagalim in the north-east. While these regions have experienced turmoil, other parts of India have been peacefully integrated, or at least have witnessed no violent insurgencies. This study seeks to explain the failures in Punjab, Indian Jammu and Kashmir (IJK) and Nagaland in the context of a representative case of compar...