Ethnicity, identity, and the state in South Asia
By: edited by Kousar J. Azam.
Contributors: Azam, Kousar J. 1943-
Publisher: South Asian Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Ethnicity -- South Asia -- Congresses.; South Asia -- Politics and government -- Congresses.; South Asia -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The present volume is an edited version of the papers presented at an international conference ... in June 2000 at the IACIS/ASRC"--Introd.
The outsider, the state, and nations from below North East India as a subject of exclusion / Prasenjit Biswas and Shukalpa Bhattacharjee -- Big state-small nations : the experience of ethnic Nagas in colonial and postcolonial India / Monirul Hussain -- Post-colonial discursive structures and identity formation in India : evidence from Jharkhand / Amit Prakash -- Ethnicity, interaction, and modes of conflict : a case profile of the Koya tribals and the Bengali refugee settlers in Malkangiri (Orissa) / Subhendu Sekhar Padhi and J.K. Baral -- Building a better Bharat for the billion : revival of all-India identity / B. Ramesh Babu.
Table of contents: title: Ethnicity, identity, and state in South Asia : an overview / B.C. Upreti; title: Politics of ethnicity and regionalism and the state in India / A.N. Panda; title: Policy-making and connections to violence : a case study of India / Marie L. Olson and Frederic S. Pearson; title: Ethnicity in Nepal : its regional implications / Ananta Raj Poudyal; title: Rohingyas of Myanmar : the identity crisis and its implications for Myanmar, Bangladesh, and India / Swapna Bhattacharya (Chakraborti); title: Responses of the state towards the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka / Gamini Samaranayake; title: The rise of new Sinhala nationalism / Sunanda Deshapriya; title: Emergence of Tamil ethnicity in Sri Lanka / Aparna Agashe; title: India and its north east : the challenges of regionalism and migration / Sanjoy Hazarika; title: Ethnic politics in Northeast India : understanding elite conflict and political mobilization / Girin Phukon; title: Identity claims : paradox of recognition and redistribution in North-East India / Rajesh Dev