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100			_aDatta, P .S
245		0	_aEthnic peace accords in India
260			_aNew Delhi _bVikas Pub _c1995
300			_a243p.
520			_aThe present exercise is unique in the sense that it not only brings together the full text of all the 'peace accords' since 1947, signed between various struggling ethnic groups and Governments for the first time, but also follows up the same with various important documents such as the Anandpur Sahib Resolution and various legislative measures that followed to bring to focus the Constitutional guarantee accorded to such 'peace accords'. In the Introduction the author highlights the text of the Indian Independence Act of July 18, 1947, the context of the Objective Resolution moved by Pandit Nehru in the first session of the Constituent Assembly, the backdrop of the States' Reorganisation Commission and the Seventh Amendment Act of 1956, and then suggests that though the Seventh Amend- ment Act could set at some sort of rest the popular urge for recognition through redrawal of internal political boundary in the mainland, the northern, eastern and north-eastern peripheries of the country continued to burn from within. The author also touches upon the relevance of the available conceptual tools to explain this continuing reality and proposes that as a conceptual tool, neither the framework of regionalism-sub-regionalism nor ethnicity- ethnocentrism can explain the core of the issues that are only partially true and hence ultimately wrong. The book will be of tremendous historical value not only to a concerned academician or administrator but also for an ordinary citizen who has an urge to understand the present in the light of the past and to anticipate the future in the light of the present.
650			_aEthnic relations India
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