State, nation, and ethnicity in contemporary South Asia
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State, nation, and ethnicity in contemporary South Asia
Pinter, 1998
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 313-325
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text is an analysis of many of the ethnic problems that plague South Asia. Conflicts which stem from the impact of colonial legacies, population movements, the disruptive effects of modernization forces and the exigencies of electoral politics. The text traces the historical origins of these various conflicts and discusses their contemporary dimensions in the late 1990s. It takes a comparative approach, highlighting common attitudinal patterns in policies and strategies and the case studies are analyzed within an historical theoretical perspective.
Table of Contents
- Ethnicity, state, society and nation
- the nation-state project versus the separatist project in South Asia
- a theory of ethnic conflict and separatism in multicultural post-colonial Asia
- cultural and political heritage of the Indian subcontinent
- India
- Pakistan
- Bangladesh
- Sri Lanka
- a comparative analysis
- a South Asian charter of human rights.
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