Lipi Ghosh (Hrsg.)

Political Governance and Minority Rights

The South and South-East Asian Scenario
Herausgeber: Ghosh, Lipi

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together a collection of essays analysing the current scenario in South and Southeast Asia regarding the position of minority groups. Based on an investigation of some of lasting conflicts, they examine the social, economic, cultural and political dimensions of these struggles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780415550710
• ISBN-10: 0415550718
• Artikelnr.: 26984906

Autorenporträt

Lipi Ghosh is Professor at Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Tables, Figures and Map. Foreword Mushirul Hasan. Preface and
Acknowledgments. Introduction: Alchemy of Community Divides: A Historical
Overview. Governance, Insurgency, Crime and Separatism 1. Politics of
Competing Ethnicity and Violence: The Experience of India's North-East
Partha S. Ghosh 2. Ethnic Minority and Political Governance: The Tai-Ahoms
in Colonial and Post-Colonial Assam Lipi Ghosh 3. Violence, Victimhood and
Minority Women: The Gujarat Violence of 2002 Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury 4.
Negotiations with a Difference: Minority Women in the Borderlands of Sri
Lanka and India Paula Banerjee. State Governance and Community Rights 5.
Inclusive Democracy and Governance in 'New' Nepal Lok Raj Baral 6. Fighting
Exclusion: Towards Understanding the Predicament of Adivasis in Bangladesh
Atiur Rahman 7. Non-Muslims in an Islamic Republic: Religious Minorities in
Pakistan Maneesha Tikekar 8. Minorities and Political Governance: The
Myanmar Situation Mandy Sadan 9. Mapping Discourses of Community Rights in
Northern Thailand, from the First National Economic and Social Development
Plan to the Thaksin Era Amnuayvit Thitibordin 10. Governing Minority
Rights? The South and South-East Asian Scenario Samir Kumar Das.
Governance, Culture and the Aspirations of Minorities 11. Contested
Identity, Negotiated Rights: The Muslim Minority of South Thailand Mala
Rajo Sathian 12. Minorities and Cultural Dominance in Malaysia: A Legacy of
Co-optation and Capitulation Sunil Kukreja 13. Wong Cilik and Wong Gede:
Contesting over Nationalist Imaginations Aris Arif Mundayat 14. The
Politics of Perception and Chinese-Philippine Writings Lily Rose Tope.
Afterword Asghar Ali Engineer. Index