State, society, and minorities in South and Southeast Asia / edited by Sunil Kukreja.
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TextPublisher: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (198 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type: - text
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- 9780739188910 (e-book)
- Minorities -- Government policy -- South Asia
- Minorities -- Government policy -- Southeast Asia
- Religious minorities -- Government policy -- South Asia
- Religious minorities -- Government policy -- Southeast Asia
- Social conflict -- South Asia
- Social conflict -- Southeast Asia
- Acculturation -- Political aspects -- South Asia
- Acculturation -- Political aspects -- Southeast Asia
- South Asia -- Ethnic relations
- Southeast Asia -- Ethnic relations
- 305.00954 23
- DS339.2 .S73 2015
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
South and Southeast Asia continue to be extremely critical regions, deeply intertwined and bound in many ways by centuries of intersecting histories. As the recent experiences of rapid and transformative political and economic changes in several countries in these two regions illustrate, these changes have significant bearing on and are simultaneously affected by the legacy and continued dynamic of dominant-minority group relations. To be sure, while the dynamics of dominant-minority relations in each country are distinct and often mitigated by distinct historical conditions, the phenomenon of these dominant-minority relations, especially along ethnic and religious fault lines, are deeply consequential to many of the nations in these regions. This book, featuring eight case studies, provides a multidisciplinary and multi-layered assessment of the salience of the ethnic and religious realities in shaping various South and Southeast Asian nations. Featuring chapters on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, this volume provides a deep appreciation of the challenges that these societies confront in integrating and/or responding to specific ethnic and/or religious based conflicts and tensions.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Map of South and Southeast Asia -- Memory, history, and landscape : ethnic Hazaras' understanding of marginality in Bamyan, Afghanistan / Melissa Kerr Chiovenda -- Sri Lanka after the war : reconciliation vs marginalization / Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam -- Internal displacement of Kashmiri Pandits / Sudha G. Rajput -- Ethnic cleansing : the neglected case of the Hindus of Bangladesh / Richard L. Benkin -- Orientation and citizenship status of the Indonesian Chinese and political implications / Taufiq Tanasaldy -- The politics of ethnic marginalization and foreign policy in Malaysia / Amy L. Freedman -- The ethnic Chinese in Cambodia's pre-war economy / Peter J. Hammer -- Justice and rights in the Malay Muslim south of Thailand / Thanet Aphornsuvan.
"This book provides a multidisciplinary and multilayered assessment of the salience of the ethnic and religious realities of shaping various South and Southeast Asian nations. Featuring chapters on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, it offers a deep appreciation of the challenges that these societies confront in integrating and/or responding to specific ethnic- and/or religious-based conflicts and tensions"--Provided by publisher.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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Kukreja brings together scholars from a number of disciplines to explore the marginalization and changing fortunes of ethnic and religious minorities in South and Southeast Asia. In the eight case studies, contributors explore the historical factors that have led to intensified violence and ethnic struggles and provide vivid accounts of the alienation minority populations suffer. Chiovenda describes how the stigmatization of the Shia Hazaras minority in Afghanistan stems from their paradoxical status as perceived outsiders, despite their deep historical attachment to the Bamyan region. Hellmann-Rajanayagam examines government inaction regarding the plight of the defeated Tamils in Sri Lanka, and Rajput traces the violent displacements suffered by the Hindu Pandits in Indian Kashmir. Benkin highlights another disturbing case of ethnic cleansing in the Indian subcontinent by critiquing the state's complicity in the persecution of the dwindling Hindu minority in Bangladesh. Three chapters show how Chinese minorities in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Cambodia have been affected by state policies on citizenship, foreign relations, and rice farming. The final chapter profiles the resistance movement of the Islamic scholar Haji Sulong in order to contextualize the Thai government's failed assimilation of Malay Muslims in southern Thailand. For students interested in the history of dominant-minority relations in Asia. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above. --Edward R. Swenson, University of TorontoThere are no comments on this title.