Ghosts From the Past?

ISBN-13: 9780367516550 / Miękka / 2023 / 162 str.

Opis

These chapters explain how and why questions of state intention and ideology that were passed over during the crafting of South Asian nations' constitutions have returned to haunt South Asia with greater urgency and consequence.

Spis treści

Preface

Bijan Omrani

Introduction

Neeti Nair

1. The Indian Constituent Assembly and the Making of Hindus and Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir

Mridu Rai

2. Constitutional Issues and the Treatment of Pakistan’s Religious Minorities

Farahnaz Ispahani

3. Secular Quests, National Others: Revisiting Bangladesh’s Constituent Assembly Debates

Dina M. Siddiqi

4. Myanmar: Religious Minorities and Constitutional Questions

Christina Fink

5. Religious Intolerance in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka

Neil DeVotta

6. More Than Meets the Eye: The Narratives of Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh

Ali Riaz

7. Unpacking the Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan

Raza Rumi

8. Cow Protection and Minority Rights in India: Reassessing Religious Freedom

Cassie Adcock

O autorze

Neeti Nair is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia.

Michael Kugelman is Deputy Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars, Washington DC.

Bijan Omrani is Editor of the journal Asian Affairs.