Nation And National Identity In South Asia

Author : S. L. Sharma
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125019244
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nation and National Identity in South Asia written by S. L. Sharma and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Book Brings Together Papers By Leading Sociologists On The Problem Of Nation And National Identity In South Asia. The Book Makes Important Conceptual Distinctions Between Nation , State , Territory And Region . It Also Attempts To Understand The Rise Of The State And Civil Society Over Time. It Includes Papers On Gender And Caste In The Nation-State And Also Includes Papers On National Identity In Sri Lanka And Pakistan.

Author : Urmila Phadnis
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Nation-building in South Asia written by Urmila Phadnis and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2001-12-14 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, this widely hailed core text of the dynamics of ethnic identities and movements in the South Asian region is perhaps even more relevant today, as the region faces a resurgence of ethno-nationalist sentiments and the outbreak of new ethnic conflict. Among the features of this thoroughly revised edition are: /-/ - it provides a critical appraisal of various theoretical approaches to the study of ethnicity and nation-building /-/ - delineates the ethnic composition of the South Asian Region/-/ - examines the specific state structures of the countries studied: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives/-/ - discusses various ethnic movements in these countries/-/ - covers the most recent developments in the region

Author : Swarna Rajagopalan
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781555879679
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State and Nation in South Asia written by Swarna Rajagopalan and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a national community out of a state? Addressing this fundamental question. Rajagopalan studies national integration from the perspective of three South Asian communities - Tamilians in India, Sindhis in Pakistan, and Tamils in Sri Lanka - that have a history of secessionism in common, but with vastly different outcomes Rajagopalan investigates why integration is relatively successful in some cases (Tamil Nadu), less so in others (Sindh), and disastrous in some (Sri Lanka). Broadly comparative and drawing together multiple aspects of political development and nation building, her imaginative exploration of the tension between state and nation gives voice to relatively disenfranchised sections of society.

Author : Kousar Jabeen Azam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity, Identity and the State in South Asia written by Kousar Jabeen Azam and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marcus Franke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134074239
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Nationalism in South Asia written by Marcus Franke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents and analyses the oldest sub-national war of postcolonial South Asia, between the Indian state and the Nagas of Northeast India. It offers a serious and thorough political history on the Naga region over three periods, pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and comparative and theoretical literature, Marcus Franke demonstrates that agency and identity-formation are an on-going process that neither started nor ended with colonialism. Although the interaction of the local population with colonialism produced a Naga national élite, it was the emergence of the Indian political class, with access to superior means of nation and state-building, that was able to undertake the modern Indo-Naga war. This war firmly made the Nagas into a 'nation' and that set them onto the road to independence. War and Nationalism in South Asia fundamentally revises our understanding of the existing 'histories' of the Nagas by exposing them to be influenced by colonial or post-colonial narratives of domination. Furthermore, by placing the region into the longue durée of state formation with its involved technique of imperial rule, the book presents a new approach to the study of nationalism and war in South Asia in general. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, history, anthropology and South Asian studies.

Author : Asghar Ali Engineer
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125022213
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Competing Nationalisms in South Asia written by Asghar Ali Engineer and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume bring together a rich and scholarly collection of thought and new work linked by a commitment to the preservation and promotion of secularism and democracy in South Asia. The contributors to this volume come from different disciplines and ideological persuasions political scientists, sociologists, historians, literary critics, and the area specialist. Part I deals with nationalist thought and practice; Part II contains essays that comment and reflect on visions of India as a nation; the concluding part concerns the continuing struggles within India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka over the definition of the nation.

Author : Ishtiaq Ahmed
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State, Nation, and Ethnicity in Contemporary South Asia written by Ishtiaq Ahmed and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199267480
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language and National Identity in Asia written by Andrew Simpson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language and National Identity in Asia is a comprehensive introduction to the role of language in the construction and development of nations and national identities in Asia. Leading scholars from all over the world investigate the role languages have played and now play in the formation of the national and social identity in countries throughout South, East, and Southeast Asia. They consider the relation of the regions' languages to national, ethnic, and cultural identity, and examine the status of and interactions between majority, official, and minority languages. Illustrated with maps and accessibly written this book will interest all those concerned to understand the dynamics of social change in some of the most important countries in the world. It will appeal to all those studying, researching, or teaching issues in Asian society, language, and politics from a comparative perspective.

Author : Wang Gungwu
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812303200
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nation Building written by Wang Gungwu and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book addresses questions such as: how should historians treat the earlier pasts of each country and the nationalism that guided the nation-building tasks? Where did political culture come in, especially when dealing with modern challenges of class, secularism and ethnicity? What part do external or regional pressures play when the nations are still being built? The authors have thought deeply about the issues of writing nation-building histories and have tried to put them not only in the perspective of Southeast Asian developments of the past five decades, but also the larger areas of historiography today.

Author : Subrata Mitra
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Subnational Movements In South Asia written by Subrata Mitra and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1996-09-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian politics have been increasingly dominated by ethnic movements seeking control over parts of existing national states, each in the name of their own distinct identity. The leaders of these movements justify their claims by asserting the moral right of their "nation" to its homeland. Although the government usually treats these separatist movements as divisive threats to domestic stability, the movements express their legitimacy with the rhetoric of cultural nationalism. However, this book presents subnationalism not as a culturally specific phenomenon but as a politically convenient self-classification, used as an instrument of identity, mobilization, power, and counter-hegemony by political actors. Drawing on detailed analyses of seven South Asian cases - Kashmir, Punjab, Sindh, Baluchistan, Assam, Tamilnadu, and Sri Lanka - the contributors move beyond sociological and economic explanations of the origin and evolution of South Asian subnationalism to formulate a political explanation based on theories of cultural nationalism and collective action.