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by Dr. Brendan O'Duffy, Queen Mary University of London, Visiting Fellow, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo

(Continued from May 19)

More generally, the Indian experience supports the argument that a responsive and accommodative centre can reduce separatist demands by ethno-nationalists. Both the modifications of the federal system to reconfigure states along ethno-linguistic lines, and the subsequent practice of power-sharing at the centre, however informal, are consistent with the need to regulate, rather than reify sovereignty. Moreover, far from maintaining a strict moratorium on external self-determination, Kashmir was granted the right to hold a referendum on self-determination.
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