TY - BOOK AU - Stepan,Alfred C. AU - Linz,Juan J. AU - Yadav,Yogendra TI - Crafting State-Nations: India and other multinational democracies SN - 9780801897238 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - JC311 .S827 2010 U1 - 320.09 S827C 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Baltimore PB - Johns Hopkins University Press KW - Multinational states KW - Case studies KW - Democracy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Comparative theory and political practice : do we need a "state-nation" model as well as a "nation-state" model? -- India as a state-nation : shared political community amidst deep cultural diversity -- Four Indian cases that challenge state-nation theory? -- Tamils in India : how state-nation policies helped construct multiple but complementary identities -- Tamils in Sri Lanka : how nation-state policies helped construct polar and conflictual identities -- Ukraine : state-nation policies in a unitary state -- Federacy : a formula for democratically managing multinational societies in unitary states -- The U.S. federal model and multinational societies : some problems for democratic theory and practice ER -