Crafting state-nations: India and other multinational democracies

This book addresses core issues concerning nations, states, nation-states and state-nations.The authors identify the latter as the main functional alternatives to 'nations-states', although both must share the necessary condition of being 'states' if they are to work.Stepan, Linz and Yadav are themselves aware of the awkwardness of the term 'state-nation', which is meant to distinguish democratic states that do not-and cannot-fit appropriately into the classic Frenchstyle Jacobin model of forged homogeneity.India is a case in point which serves the purpose of illustrating a proposal of a set of seven policy domains that the authors regard as highly supportive for the crafting of state-nations.Such policies are synthetically proposed in direct and parsimonious phrases composing a 'nest policy grammar' aimed at facilitating the emergence and persistence of state-nations.