Minorities, Commerce and the Legacy of Muslim Asia’s Urban Cosmopolitanism: Afghanistan’s Hindus and Sikhs
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2021

This chapter’s focus is on an equally important and perhaps surprising aspect of the historically layered and cultural complex composition of trading networks – their religious diversity. Long-term conflict and displacement in Afghanistan has resulted in the bleaching of ‘ethno-religious minorities’ from the country’s social fabric, what is sometimes referred to as the process of ‘decosmopolitanisation’. This chapter argues that processes of ‘de-cosmopolitinisation’ are best understood alongside