federalism
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Restore the Princes?
Under one paramountcy, Swat built three colleges and over three hundred schools while the Nawabs of Dir kept education out. Same institution, same security, opposite outcomes. Whatever the case for…
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“I Will Never Speak Kannada”
Responding to a viral video of a bank manager refusing to speak Kannada, the post argues that the row exposes a wider tension over who accommodates whom in a multilingual…
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India’s Demographic Nervous System: Partition, Federalism, and the Fear of Muslim Majority Provinces
The author suggests that post-Partition India’s large states were calibrated to avoid creating new Muslim-majority provinces, and links that anxiety to Kashmir’s special status and the origins of its insurgency,…
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The Indian Overton: Opposition Offensives
The Emissary argues that India’s civilisational unity long predates its political unity, that Hindutva and development have strengthened it, and that the opposition, lacking a rival unifying ideology, risks denying…
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Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan; the dark side chronicles
Reposting an old piece, Asif Javed argues that the legend of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto has outrun the record, and sets out his ‘dark side’, including intolerance of rival power centres…
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Revoking 13th Amendment in Sri Lanka and Elections in the US.
The author argues Sri Lanka needs a centralised state, warning that provincial devolution under the 13th Amendment could become de facto federalism and a client state of India, and offers…
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The price of Unity for India’s Dravidians
Prompted by Afghanistan’s outsized global influence, the author muses that the four Dravidian states’ sub-nationalism vanishes on the world stage within Indian nationalism, and wonders whether more distinctive Indian minorities…
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Browncast Ep 38: Indian Elections
On Browncast Episode 38, hosts and guests MJ, Kushal and Vidhi debate India’s 2019 election, covering caste dynamics, the BJP’s rise in Bengal and Odisha, personality politics, communalism, and a…
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“Kem Cho Mr PM”
The author argues that India is united only in its need for diversity, tracing how linguistic and religious demands led to new states from Punjab to Telangana, and questions Hindi…
