Stateless in South Asia : the Chakmas between Bangladesh and India /

What does it mean to be 'stateless' in the modern postcolonial context? This fascinating study addresses this complex question through the case of the Chakma refugees in Arunachal Pradesh. The largely neglected social history of the ethnic Buddhist Chakmas, whose homeland is the Chittagong...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Singh, Deepak K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Los Angeles : Bangalore : Sage ; New India Foundation, 2010.
Colección:Sage studies on India's north east.
Temas:
Refugees > Bangladesh > Chittagong Hill Tracts (Region)
Refugees > India > Arunāchal Pradesh.
Chakma (Asian people) > Bangladesh > Chittagong Hill Tracts (Region)
Chakma (Asian people) > India > Arunāchal Pradesh.
Réfugiés > Bangladesh > Chittagong Hill Tracts (Région administrative)
Réfugiés > Inde > Arunāchal Pradesh.
Chakma (Peuple d'Asie) > Bangladesh > Chittagong Hill Tracts (Région administrative)
Chakma (Peuple d'Asie) > Inde > Arunāchal Pradesh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Chakma (Asian people)
Refugees.
Bangladesh > Chittagong Hill Tracts (Region)
India > Arunāchal Pradesh.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chakma refugees: partition residues and development victims
  • CHT and NEFA: from colonial outposts to postcolonial peripheries
  • Politics of demographic (dis)order in Northeast India: the idiom of protest
  • Chakma diaspora in Northeast India: excluded communities, fragmented identities
  • Official discourses of the Chakma issue: centre versus state
  • Chakmas' self-perceptions: understanding everyday lived experiences of refugees
  • Arunachalis' self-perceptions: assertion and reconstruction of identity and ethnic nationalism
  • The making of refugees in South Asia: nation, state and outsiders
  • Interrogating India's refugee policy.

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