Stateless in South Asia
Subtitle: the Chakmas between Bangladesh and India
By: Deepak K. Singh.
Series: Sage studies on India's north east; Sage studies on India's north east
Publisher: Sage; New India Foundation
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Los Angeles; Bangalore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9788132102366
Subjects: Refugees -- Bangladesh -- Chittagong Hill Tracts (Region); Refugees -- India -- Arunāchal Pradesh; Chakma (Asian people) -- Bangladesh -- Chittagong Hill Tracts (Region); Chakma (Asian people) -- India -- Arunāchal Pradesh
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chakma refugees: partition residues and development victims; title: CHT and NEFA: from colonial outposts to postcolonial peripheries; title: Politics of demographic (dis)order in Northeast India: the idiom of protest; title: Chakma diaspora in Northeast India: excluded communities, fragmented identities; title: Official discourses of the Chakma issue: centre versus state; title: Chakmas' self-perceptions: understanding everyday lived experiences of refugees; title: Arunachalis' self-perceptions: assertion and reconstruction of identity and ethnic nationalism; title: The making of refugees in South Asia: nation, state and outsiders; title: Interrogating India's refugee policy.