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This volume presents the picture of competitive politics in as many as 24 states of India. It addresses the issue of relationship between parliamentary election and assembly election as it evolved during 2008-2013. Making the best use of the National Election Study of 2009, the chapters in the book open before the reader the different patterns of party competition at the state level.

Must every state be a nation and every nation a state? Or should we look instead to the example of countries such as India, where one state holds together a congeries of "national" groups and cultures in a single and wisely conceived federal republic?

Abstract: Most South Asians believe that democracy is suitable for their country and prefer democracy over authoritarianism. While support for the institutional form of democracy is determined by access to education, media exposure, the experience of living under democratic conditions, support for the idea of democracy cuts across social barriers. The more active one is in politics, the more likely one is to support democracy; and the higher the degree of one's participation from being a one-time voter to a regular voter to a participant in nonelectoral political activity and finally to being a member of political organization's the higher is likely to be one's support for democratic governance.

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