Post-Colonial States of South Asia - Political and Constitutional Problems

Zusatztext 'An excellent modern history of and introduction to the contemporary politics of South Asia.' - Ethnic and Racial Studies Informationen zum Autor Amita Shastri, A. Jeyaratnam Wilson Klappentext This text discusses the principal political and constitutional questions that have arisen in the states of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka following fifty years of independence. In Sri Lanka the pressing problems have been around the inter-ethnic civil war, experiments with constitutional designs, widespread prevalence of corruption and the recrudescence of Buddhist militancy. In India it has been corruption, Hindu nationalism and general political instability. In Bangladesh and Pakistan it has been the role of the military, the state and religion. A general theme is an analysis of the malaise that is prevalent and how and why this was inherited, despite the colonial legacy of parliamentary democracy, the steel framework of a trained bureaucracy, the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law. Zusammenfassung This text discusses the principal political and constitutional questions that have arisen in the states of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka following fifty years of independence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments, List of Contributors, Introduction The Post-Colonial States of South Asia: Democracy, Identity, Development and Security, PART I DEMOCRACY, PART II IDENTITY, PART III DEVELOPMENT, PART IV SECURITY, Index

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• Authors: Amita Shastri, Amita Wilson Shastri, A Jeyaratnam Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, Wilson A. Jeyaratnam
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.07.2001
• EAN: 9780700712922
• ISBN: 978-0-7007-1292-2
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Sri Lanka, Pakistan, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Bangladesh, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, India, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, Constitution: government & the state, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Constitution: government and the state, HISTORY / Asia / South / India