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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Subnational movements in South Asia. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1996 (OCoLC)604318034 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Subrata Kumar Mitra; R Alison Lewis |
| ISBN: | 0813320933 9780813320939 |
| OCLC Number: | 31206542 |
| Description: | xiii, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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 / Iftikhar 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 / Arun R. Swamy -- 10. Epilogue / Marie Therese O'Toole. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Subrata K. Mitra and R. Alison Lewis. |
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Abstract:
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.
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