Sumantra Bose has a long history of writing carefully researched and sometimes contrarian analyses of post-conflict situations, covering such widely dispersed areas as Kashmir, Sri Lanka, the Balkans and Palestine. His current book includes some similar material, but views it through a different lens, focusing on the pressures facing India's democracy, especially in the past quarter-century. Bose's central argument is that local and regional identities and leaders are increasingly prominent in India's democratic system, and that it is struggling to reconcile this new regionalism with the strong central government that its founding generation sought to create.
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