Kham Khan Suan Hausing

Kham Khan Suan Hausing
University of Hyderabad | UoH · Department of Political Science

PhD

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Introduction
Kham Khan Suan Hausing is Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad. His research interest is on federalism, nationalism, ethnic conflicts and Indian politics with a particular focus on Northeast India. His most recent publication is: 'Telangana and the limits of Article 3 as an instrument of federal rescue and accommodation,' Asian Ethnicity, 20 December 2024. DoI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14631369.2024.2444267
Additional affiliations
August 2015 - present
University of Hyderabad
Position
  • Professor
August 2012 - August 2015
University of Hyderabad
Position
  • Professor
May 2004 - August 2012
Banaras Hindu University
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  • Professor (Assistant)
Education
September 2012 - September 2013
University of Pennsylvania
Field of study
  • Political Science
July 1998 - June 2010
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Field of study
  • Political Science

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This article intends to fill a glaring void in the existing academic literature on the issues and challenges which stem not only from crafting, but also making asymmetric federalism work in northeast India. It examines the extent and limits to which asymmetric federalism—specifically under Article 371A of India’s Constitution—not only negotiates Na...
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Drawing on the purported attempts to give 33% reservation to women in Nagaland’s urban local bodies as a test case, an analysis is made of how misleading the presumption and claim of “equality as tradition” could be in a supposedly “egalitarian” Naga society. Patriarchally structured deliberations, consultations and decision-making procedures adopt...
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This article examines the politics of State formation in India by taking up the case of Telangana. Drawing from the emerging literature on the politics of recognition and territorial accommodation in multinational federations, I argue that territorial accommodation of Telangana was made possible by the convergence of strategic interests and role of...
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This article draws a typology of autonomy in the Northeast to examine how the Indian state territorially manages ethnic conflicts in its periphery. The differential nature and history of conflicts, and timing and mode of negotiation, are used as two broad explanatory variables to account for when, how and under what circumstances the Indian state i...
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It is argued that it would be naïve to explain the Bharatiya Janata Party's success as a wholehearted endorsement of its Hindutva agenda as there are substantial local reservations on this. Unlike Uttar Pradesh or other parts of North India where it aggressively pushed its Hindutva agenda, the BJP knows the limitation of this agenda and has instead...
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This article examines the formation of Telangana as an illustrative case to show the possibility and limits of using Article 3 of India’s Constitution as an instrument of federal rescue and accommodation of territorially concentrated groups who are at the receiving end of political marginalization and perceived oppressive rule by dominant kin ethno...
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In what could have possibly made pundits of game theory wink in amusement, Manipur seemed to have finally found a transient solution to the rather stubborn collective action problem, which has ‘allegedly’ eluded the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) and the Unified Security Command headed by Kuldip Singh, its Security Advisor since the end of May last...
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This article examines how and to what extent ethnic diversity underpinned intergovernmental relations (IGR) in deeply divided societies like India. Central to this is the vertical and intermediating roles of political actors, structures and processes of Indian federalism in defining the ways in which ethnic diversity is territorial managed. Unlike...
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A defining feature of the Manipur violence that has broken out since 3 May 2023 is the unilateral targeting of the Kuki-Zomi as ‘encroachers’ — and by implication, ‘troublemakers’ — and the high-handedness with which they were sought to be resolved by the colonial and post-colonial states. What is often ignored is a contextual understanding where h...
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The virulent wave of riots that we have seen since the evening of 3 May is far from spontaneous and unpredictable. History has a strange way of repeating itself, a point that becomes increasingly apparent as communal riots spread across Manipur. Like most conventional riots that flared up occasionally in other parts of India, the state of Manipur h...
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Auch die 24. Ausgabe des Jahrbuchs ist ein breit angelegtes Kompendium, das den Leser:innen – primär in Politik, Verwaltung, Wissenschaft, Forschung, Lehre, Studium sowie in der interessierten Öffentlichkeit – in 36 Beiträgen einen aktuellen und zusammenfassenden Überblick über verschiedene Aspekte föderaler und regionaler Struktur und Politik biet...
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The Bodo Accord envisions a more expansive “self-rule” and provides for novel “shared-rule” provisions by creatively broadening the area, scope of power and autonomy enjoyed by the Bodos, albeit in vague generalities. However, the failure to envision a power-sharing arrangement with non-Bodos makes the BTR a very weak “shared-rule” model of autonom...
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In How solidarity works for welfare, Prerna Singh examines one of the enduring puzzles of our time, that is: ‘variation of social welfare regimes and developmental outcomes’ within a state marked by ‘virtually identical legal, financial, and electoral institutions’ (pp.1-2). Drawing from social psychology and political philosophy, her central argum...
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In Living with Oil and Coal, Dolly Kikon presents the ethnography of the entangled lives of multiple actors—of villagers, state officials, geologists, insurgents, traders and landowners—in the militarized carbon landscape of the foothills of Assam and Nagaland in North East India. Although the extractive economy of carbon—oil, coal (and tea)—in the...
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Autonomy envisaged by the Sixth Schedule in the erstwhile tribal hill areas of Assam is embedded in the development-security paradigm. A top-down autonomy model, which stems from this may over time leverage erosion of tribes’ autonomous ‘societal culture’. This model needs serious rethinking if autonomy is to be salvaged.
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A proposed memorial to a Meitei king could send the wrong signal in Manipur
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This article critically examines territorial strategies adopted by the Indian state to accommodate territorially concentrated minority groups in two very recent cases: the formation of Telangana (2014) and the Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) (2003). We situate both cases within the broader context of linguistic state reorganization in India sinc...
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This article attempts to bridge the missing link in state's narrative and intercultural dialogue in NorthEast India which has for long been informed respectively by the " law and order " approach and monological discourse. It does this by revisiting the tradition of knowing a complex and diverse region, and by unravelling the post-colonial anxietie...
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This article makes an inventory of how political realities in the Northeast are studied to understand how and why it continues to be marginal to national imaginary and to mainstream political science debates in India. The article is organised into four sections. Section I introduces the research problematic. Section II examines the framing question...
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The debut of Nagaland People's Front in the 2015 district council elections in Manipur with the tacit support of the National Socialist Council of Nagalim (Isak-Muivah) and United Naga Council marks a change in Naga politics - a change from politics of opposition to politics of acquiescence. These elections also underscore a new pattern of localisa...
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Manipur impasse underscores the importance of accommodating, not integrating, tribals. The three controversial bills that have sparked this crisis should be withdrawn immediately
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This chapter examines research writing about key themes related to federalism in India, including multilevel federal design and the impact of the changing party system on the operation of the federal system. It discusses the complexities of interaction between different levels of government and describes the use of different forums for interaction...
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This article examines the controversy surrounding Nagaland's recent attempt to exert sovereign control over its minerals and petroleum resources.
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The encounter between the state and disparate tribal groups in India’s north-east or elsewhere not only affirms the state’s monopoly of material and symbolic power but also opens up a complex and shifting discursive space. This article examines how the state’s practice of recognising ‘tribes’ legitimises fixed and legible ‘locational dialectal iden...
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Autonomy envisaged by the Sixth Schedule in the erstwhile tribal hill areas of Assam is embedded in the development-security paradigm. The top-down concept of this kind entails the erosion of tribes’ autonomous ‘societal culture’. Top-down autonomy model engendered by the above approach needs serious rethinking if autonomy is to be salvaged.

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