Subnational Movements in South Asia

List of contents

List of Dlustrations -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- 1. Introduction /Subrata K. Mitra -- 2. Sub-national Movements in South Asia: Identity, Collective Action and Political Protest /Subrata K. Mitra -- 3. Ethnic Construction, Provincial Identity and Nationalism in Pakistan: The Case of Baluchistan /Vernon Hewitt -- 4. The Politics of Ethnic Conflict in Sindh: Nation, Region and Community in Pakistan /lftikhar H. Malik -- 5. The Punjab Crisis Since 1984: A Reassessment /Gurharpal Singh -- 6. Kashmir: A Strategic Crisis or Ethnic Nationalism? /Sumit Ganguly and Kanti Bajpai -- 7. Youth Militancy and the Rise of Sri Lanka: /Tamil Nationalism /Robert C. Oberst -- 8. Cultural Sub-Nationalism in India's North-East: An Overview /Madan P. Bezbaruah -- 9. Sense, Sentiment and Populist Coalitions: The Strange Career of Cultural Nationalism in Tamil Nadu /ArunR. Swamy -- 10. Epilogue /Marie Thirese O'Toole -- About the Book -- Index.

About the author

Subrata K. Mitra

Summary

Drawing on detailed analyses of seven South Asian cases, this book moves beyond sociological and economic explanations of the origin and evolution of South Asian nationalism to formulate a political explanation based on theories of cultural nationalism and collective action.

Product details

• Authors: R Alison Lewis, R. Alison Lewis, Lewis R. Alison, Subrata Mitra, Subrata Lewis Mitra, Robert C Oberst, Robert C Lewis Oberst
• Assisted by: R. Alison Lewis (Editor), Subrata K. Mitra (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367289126
• ISBN: 978-0-367-28912-6
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy