State, Society, and Minorities in South and Southeast Asia
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780739188903
Subjects: Minorities, asia; Social conflict; Acculturation; Ethnology, asia
Description: "This book provides a multidisciplinary and multilayered assessment of the salience of the ethnic and religious realities of shaping various South and Southeast Asian nations. Featuring chapters on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, it offers a deep appreciation of the challenges that these societies confront in integrating and/or responding to specific ethnic- and/or religious-based conflicts and tensions"--Provided by publisher.