Introduction / Sanjib Baruah
- Part I: Debating the Indian Record. 1. Diversity, Democracy, and Devolution in India / Kanti Bajpai
2. Elite Interests, Popular Passions, and Social Power in the Language Politics of India / Paul R. Brass
3. Reassessing 'Conventional Wisdom': Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflict and India as an Ethnic Democracy / Gurharpal Singh
- Part II: Kashmir: Ethnonational Conflict and the Legacy of Partition. 4. Three Compromised Nationalisms: Why Kashmir has been a Problem / Ashutosh Varshney
5. Explaining the Kashmir Insurgency: Political Mobilization and Institutional Decay / Sumit Ganguly
6. Kashmir / Sumantra Bose
- Part III: Northeast India: Ethnonationalism in a Cultural Borderland. 7. Confronting Constructionism: Ending the Naga War / Sanjib Baruah
8. Invention, Reinvention and Contestation: Politics of Identity in Assam / M.S. Prabhakara
9. Secessionism in Northeast India: Identity Wars or Crises of Legitimacy? / M. Sajjad Hassan
- Part IV: Federal Design and Ethnonationalism. 10. Constitutional Centring: Nation Formation and Consociational Federalism in India and Pakistan / Katherine Adeney
11. Federalism, Multi-national Societies, and Negotiating a Democratic 'State-Nation': A Theoretical Framework, the Indian Model, and a Tamil Case Study / Alfred C. Stepan
12. Integration through Internal Reorganization: Containing Ethnic Conflict in India / Maya Chadda
- Part V: Consociational Theory and India. 13. The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation / Arend Lijphart
14. India, Consociational Theory and Ethnic Violence / Steven Ian Wilkinson
- Part VI: The Fate of Ethnonational Movements: Contextual Variables. 15. Can Democracies Accommodate Ethnic Nationalism? Rise and Decline of Self-Determination Movements in India / Atul Kohli
16. Ethnicity and Pluralism: An Exploration with Reference to Indian Cases / Narendra Subramanian.