Identities in South Asia: Conflicts and Assertions

ISBN-13: 9780815361992 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 204 str.

Vivek Sachdeva; Queeny Pradhan; Anu Venugopalan

Opis

This book examines identity formations and assertion in South Asia. Drawing on history, literature, politics, and sociology, it highlights how the shared history of colonialism and partition, communal violence, bloodshed and pogrom are instrumental in understanding present-day concerns.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Identity Assertions and the Context of Conflicts in South Asia  2. Constitution and Conflict:Mono-ethnic federalism in a Poly-ethnic Nepal  3. Literature as Cosmopolitics: Beyond Nations, Borders and Identities  4. Ideology as Identity: Progressivism of Punjabi Poetry of 1970s and After  5. Flying High or Lying Low? The Moral Economy of Young Women in Higher Education in Punjab, India  6. Dalit Assertion and Different Shades of Movements  7. The question of Loyalty: Minorities and South Asian Nationalisms  8. Adivasi Struggles in Chhattisgarh: Self Rule, Resource Conflicts and Militarization  9. Was Bhagat Singh an Internationalist? Resistance and Identity in Global Age  10. The Languages of the Indian English Writer