Minority Nationalisms in South Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415556316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 160 str.

Tanweer Fazal;Boria Majumdar

Opis

Nationalism, defined as the finality of one’s loyalties, remains an extremely contested terrain in South Asia. Of the seven states that comprise South Asia, at least five have adopted the faith of the majority as state religion. Nonetheless, they have desisted from becoming theocracies. South Asia is also the theatre of myriad experimentations with the concept: religious, linguistic, religio-linguistic, composite, plural or exclusive—the region stands witness to all. This book examines the perspective of minority identities as they negotiate their terms of co-existence, accommodation and adaptation with several other competing identities within the framework of ‘nation-state’. The collection takes up specific cases from distinct South Asian states that project coalescences as much as tensions that mark these tenuous relationships. Constitutional provisions and policy initiatives intended to formalise these ties are subjected to close scrutiny and evaluation in some of these contributions.

The book will be useful for students of comparative politics and political sociology, conflict studies, South Asian studies and for all those interested in analysing cultural articulations and political mobilisations of minority groups.

This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Minorities and their nationalism(s): the terms of a discourse in South Asia  Tanweer Fazal  2. Expanding imaginations: theory and praxis of Naga nation making in post colonial India  Sajal Nag  3. The multiple self: interfaces between Pashtun nationalism and religious conflict on the frontier  Rubina Saigol  4. ‘We are with culture but without geography’: locating Sylheti identity in contemporary India  Nabanipa Bhattacharjee  5. Minority rights and the nationalist doctrine in India: contestation and coalescence in the public sphere  Tanweer Fazal  6. ‘We can leave neither’: Mohamed Ali, Islam and Nationalism in colonial India  M. Raisur Rahman  7. Contours of Muslim nationalism in Sri Lanka  Zarin Ahmad  8. Amidst the winds of change: the Hindu minority in Bangladesh  Meghna Guhathakurta  9. Pakistan’s policies and practices towards the religious minorities  Tariq Rahman

O autorze

Tanweer Fazal is Lecturer at theNelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.