The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict: India—The Dilemmas of Diversity

Issue Date October 1993
Volume 4
Issue 4
Page Numbers 54-68
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About the Author

Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr. is the Temple Professor of the Humanities in Government and Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. His numerous publications include India Under Pressure (1984) and (with Stanley A. Kochanek) India: Government and Politics in a Developing Nation (5th ed., 1993).

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