Migration, Regional Autonomy, and Conflicts in Eastern South Asia: Searching for a Home(land)

ISBN-13: 9783031287633 / Angielski

Amit Ranjan; Diotima Chattoraj

Opis

Delving into the past and present of various secessionist movements in Northeast India, political conflict in Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, a political movement for autonomy in Darjeeling hills in eastern India, and the Rohingya migration crisis affecting India and Bangladesh, this book examines the volatile co-existence of competing population groups in Eastern South Asia. Through the conceptual lens of the ‘home’ and feeling of/for ‘homeland’ in Eastern South Asia, the authors seek answers to three complex but interrelated questions: why is Eastern South Asia facing so many political movements and conflicts? How the political movements affected the region and people?  Why is the number of migrants in this region so high? Answers to these questions are vital to those studying South Asia and interested in understanding this region.

Spis treści

Introduction by Amit Ranjan and Diotima Chattoraj

Section One: Crossing Internal and International Borders

Chapter 1: Migration, Displacement and Agency in North-East India: A New Outlook by Randhir Gogoi 

Chapter 2: 

Migration from North-East India since the 1990s: Ethnopolitical Issues and Economic Development Perspectives by Avijit Mistri 

Chapter 3: Bangladeshi Immigration into West Bengal: A Qualitative Study by Sumana Das and Md. Anisujjaman

Section Two: Movements for Homeland

Chapter 4: Rohingya Migrants in Bangladesh and India by Amit Ranjan 

Chapter 5: The Nexus Between Indo-Nepal Migration and Trafficking in Persons by Sadikshya Bhattarai, Sudeshna Thapa, and Jeevan Baniya

Chapter 6: “Ura Uvie”- my home-it belongs to me: Meaning making and transitions in the quest for the Naga homeland by Dr. Kaustubh Deka

Chapter 7: Armed Conflict in Manipur by Seram Rojesh

Chapter 8: Decoding Bodo Peace Accord 2020: Political Expediency vs. Enduring Ethnic Solution by V. Bijukumar 

Chapter 9: Nepali Speakers of West Bengal, Politics of Self-Rule, and Political Elites by Abi Narayan Chamlagai 

Chapter 10: Migration, Ethnic Conflicts and Negotiations in the Darjeeling Himalayas by Sudip Khasnobish, Chanchal Adhikary and Chanchal Mandal

Section 3: Defining Self and Others in Eastern South Asia

Chapter 11: Koch Rajbanshis and the Kamatapur Movement: Competition over Local Resources by Samujjal Ray 

Chapter 12: Madhesi Movement in Nepal by Lalita Kaundinya Bashyal and Keshav Bashyal

Chapter 13: The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord: Hope and Reality by Fardaus Ara and Md Mostafizur Rahman Khan 

Conclusion by Amit Ranjan and Diotima Chattoraj

O autorze

Amit Ranjan is Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. His latest book (with Ian Talbot) is Urban Development and Environmental History in Modern South Asia (Routledge, London, 2023). He is the author of Contested Waters: India’s Transboundary River Water Disputes in South Asia (Routledge, London and New Delhi, 2021), and India-Bangladesh Border Disputes: History and Post-LBA Dynamics (Springer, Singapore, 2018). His papers, review essays, and book reviews have been widely published in journals, including Asian Survey, Asian Affairs, Asian Ethnicity, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, Economic & Political Weekly, India Review, among others.

Diotima Chattoraj is Adjunct Research Fellow at the school of Social and Health Sciences at James Cook University, Singapore. Her research interests include migration, development, ethnicity, international relations, and boundarymaking.She has published in leading Scopus-indexed journals in migration and development fields like Mobilities, South Asia Research and many more. She has also authored and co-edited a number of books with renowned publishers. She is Assistant Editor for South Asia Research (Sage) and serves as a peer reviewer for a number of refereed journals.

Blurb

Delving into the past and present of various secessionist movements in Northeast India, political conflict in Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, a political movement for autonomy in Darjeeling hills in Eastern India, and the Rohingya migration crisis affecting India and Bangladesh, this book examines the volatile co-existence of competing population groups in Eastern South Asia. Through the conceptual lens of the ‘home’ and feeling of ‘homeland’ in Eastern South Asia, the authors seek answers to three complex but interrelated questions: why is Eastern South Asia facing so many political movements and conflicts? How have the political movements affected the region and people? Why is the number of migrants in this region so high? Answers to these questions are vital to those studying South Asia and interested in understanding this region.

Amit Ranjan is Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. His latest book (with Ian Talbot) is Urban Development and Environmental History in Modern South Asia (Routledge, London, 2023). He is the author of Contested Waters: India’s Transboundary River Water Disputes in South Asia (Routledge, London and New Delhi, 2021), and India-Bangladesh Border Disputes: History and Post-LBA Dynamics (Springer, Singapore, 2018). His papers, review essays, and book reviews have been widely published in journals, including Asian Survey, Asian Affairs, Asian Ethnicity, Asian Journal of Comparative Politics, Economic & Political Weekly, India Review, among others.