Unveiling The Complexities: Regionalism And Secessionism In India - Crafting A Theoretical Framework

Abstract

It has been observed that in studying social and protest movements; enquiry is almost involuntary pursued on a line of rhetoric highlighting local and regional identities. Presumably, the act is induct more by pragmatism and by the legitimacy of a political will then by any serious resolve to address the theoretical disputes occurring in this enterprise. It had started off with smaller projects such as how the freedom/resistance movement had been conceived by the local icons and how soon than others. This line of argumentation finally matured into a quarrel to morally legitimise little nationality as a competitive proposition to nation, nationalism and statehood. The present century, however, witness to some pro-autonomy phenomenon in all along the globe. Hence, many theories seek to explain separatist or regional attitude in general and situation specific in particular. These theories are wide ranging and many times over lapping with each other. My purpose here is to highlights the separatist or regional movements either ideographically or within the theoretical rubric of nomotheism of nativestic considerations. Significantly the greatest levels of regional mobilization have occurred precisely during the period of intense state-building, urbanization and modernization. Far from being a post-materialist revival of folklore in the name of ‘small is beautiful’ ¹ therefore seems to be a more important phenomenon in this context.