States in conflict with their minorities challenges to minority rights in South Asia
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
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| Sprache: | English |
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New Delhi, India
SAGE Publications
2010
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| Online-Zugang: | DE-1046 DE-1047 Volltext |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Boxes; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1 -- Introduction; 2 -- Violence, Cultural Diversities and the Fantasies of a Monolithic Nation-State; 3 -- A Long-term View of Contemporary Muslim Situation in India; 4 -- Media, Modernity and Minorities; 5 -- Hindus in a Polarized Political Environment: Bangladesh's Minority; 6 -- Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: Justice Denied; 7 -- Discrimination in Pakistan against Religious Minorities: Constitutional Aspects; 8 -- Religious Minorities in Pakistan: Mapping Sind and Baluchistan Going beyond the mere mapping of the minority situation in South Asia, the essays in this volume explore the modern minority problématique in a democracy as integral to modern state-making processes, recognizing Nation and State as majoritarian concepts. Focusing on the South Asian context, they emphasize minority as a political category. Further, they move away from isolated national frames and explore the minority question as a foreign policy question. These second generation studies by authors who have defined the scholarly discourse on minority rights in the region invite comparativ |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 319 pages) |
| ISBN: | 8132105982 9788132104551 9788132105985 |