States in conflict with their minorities : challenges to minority rights in South Asia /

Going beyond the mere mapping of the minority situation in South Asia, the essays in this volume explore the modern minority problématique in a democracy as integral to modern state-making processes, recognizing Nation and State as majoritarian concepts. Focusing on the South Asian context, they em...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Manchanda, Rita
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2010.
Temas:
Minorities > Political activity > South Asia.
Minorités > Activité politique > Asie méridionale.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Human Rights.
Minorities > Political activity.
Politics and government.
Race relations > Political aspects.
South Asia > Race relations > Political aspects.
South Asia > Politics and government.
South Asia.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Boxes; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1
  • Introduction; 2
  • Violence, Cultural Diversities and the Fantasies of a Monolithic Nation-State; 3
  • A Long-term View of Contemporary Muslim Situation in India; 4
  • Media, Modernity and Minorities; 5
  • Hindus in a Polarized Political Environment: Bangladesh's Minority; 6
  • Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: Justice Denied; 7
  • Discrimination in Pakistan against Religious Minorities: Constitutional Aspects; 8
  • Religious Minorities in Pakistan: Mapping Sind and Baluchistan.

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