Political Governance and Minority Rights

<p>This volume brings together a collection of essays analysing the current scenario in South and Southeast Asia with respect to the position of minority groups. Based on an in-depth investigation of some of the lasting minority–majority conflicts of the post-colonial period in countries that often escape comparison, the articles are a rich and critical exposition of the social, economic, cultural and political dimensions of these struggles. The central question being addressed is that of community rights in the modern nation-state and how these are being understood by the two concerned parties and, where and when, thereof, a situation of conflict arose. </p> <p><em>Tables, Figures and Map. </em>Foreword <em>Mushirul Hasan</em>. <em>Preface and Acknowledgments. </em><strong>Introduction:</strong> Alchemy of Community Divides: A Historical Overview. <b>Governance, Insurgency, Crime and Separatism </b>1. Politics of Competing Ethnicity and Violence: The Experience of India’s North-East <i>Partha S. Ghosh </i>2. Ethnic Minority and Political Governance: The Tai-Ahoms in Colonial and Post-Colonial Assam <i>Lipi Ghosh </i>3. Violence, Victimhood and Minority Women: The Gujarat Violence of 2002 <i>Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury </i>4. Negotiations with a Difference: Minority Women in the Borderlands of Sri Lanka and India <i>Paula Banerjee. </i><b>State Governance and Community Rights </b>5. Inclusive Democracy and Governance in ‘New’ Nepal <i>Lok Raj Baral </i>6. Fighting Exclusion: Towards Understanding the Predicament of Adivasis in Bangladesh <i>Atiur Rahman </i>7. Non-Muslims in an Islamic Republic: Religious Minorities in Pakistan <i>Maneesha Tikekar </i>8. Minorities and Political Governance: The Myanmar Situation <i>Mandy Sadan </i>9. Mapping Discourses of Community Rights in Northern Thailand, from the First National Economic and Social Development Plan to the Thaksin Era <i>Amnuayvit Thitibordin </i>10. Governing Minority Rights? The South and South-East Asian Scenario <i>Samir Kumar Das. </i><b>Governance, Culture and the Aspirations of Minorities </b>11. Contested Identity, Negotiated Rights: The Muslim Minority of South Thailand <i>Mala Rajo Sathian </i>12. Minorities and Cultural Dominance in Malaysia: A Legacy of Co-optation and Capitulation <i>Sunil Kukreja </i>13<i>. Wong Cilik </i>and <i>Wong Gede</i>: Contesting over Nationalist Imaginations <i>Aris Arif Mundayat </i>14. The Politics of Perception and Chinese–Philippine Writings <em>Lily Rose Tope. </em>Afterword<em> </em><em>Asghar Ali Engineer.</em> <i>Index</i></p>