Nationalism and ethnic conflict
Subtitle: identities and mobilization after 1990
By: edited by Mahendra Lawoti and Susan Hangen
Series: Routledge contemporary South Asia series -- 58
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780415780971; 9780203118269
Subjects: Politics and government; Ethnic relations; Minorities; Group identity; Indigenous peoples; Political aspects; Nationalism; Political activity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Contextualizing nationalism and ethnic conflict: Introduction: nationalism and ethnic politics in Nepal / Susan Hangen and Mahendra Lawoti; Ethnopolitics and ethnodevelopment / Krishna Bhattachan; Nepali economic history through the ethnic lens / Mallika Shakya; title: Part 2. Identities and movements: problems of identity for Dalits in Nepal's nationalist project / Steven Folmar; Boycotting Dasain: history, memory and ethnic politics in Nepal / Susan Hangen; The National Muslim Forum Nepal: experiences of conflict, formations of identity / Megan Adamson Sijapati; In pursuit of recognition: regionalism, Madhesi identity and the Madhes Andolan / Bandita Sijapati; Refusing to choose: the Muslim Madhesis and the coexistence of religious and regional identity in Nepal's Tarai / Mollica Dastider; title: Part 3. Trends of Nepal's ethnic and nationalist movements and conflicts: dynamics of mobilization: trajectories of Dalit, indigenous nationalities and Madhesi movements / Mahendra Lawoti; Transforming ethnic politics, transforming the Nepali polity: from peaceful nationalist mobilization to the rise of armed separatist groups / Mahendra Lawoti.