Indigenous Identity In South Asia
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Author |
: Tamina M. Chowdhury |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2016-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317202929 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317202929 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indigenous Identity in South Asia by : Tamina M. Chowdhury
In the immediate aftermath of the creation of Bangladesh in 1971, an armed struggle ensued in its remote south-eastern corner. The hill people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, more commonly referred to as paharis, demanded official recognition, and autonomy, as the indigenous people of the Tracts. This demand for autonomy was primarily based on the claim that they were ethnically distinct from the majority ‘Bengali’ population of Bangladesh, and thereby needed to protect their unique identity. This book challenges the general perception within existing scholarship that indigenous claims coming from the Tracts are a recent and contemporary phenomenon, which emerged with the founding of the Bangladesh state. By analysing the processes of colonisation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, the author argues that identities of distinct ethnicity and tradition predate the creation of Bangladesh, and first began to evolve under British patronage. It is asserted that claims to indigeneity must be understood as an outcome of prolonged and complex processes of interaction between hill peoples – largely the Hill Tracts elites – and the Raj. Using hitherto unexplored archival sources, Indigenous Identity in South Asia sheds new light on how the concepts of ‘territory’, and of a ‘people indigenous to it’ came to be forged and politicised. By showing a far deeper historical lineage of claims making in the Tracts, it adds a new dimension to existing studies on Bangladesh’s borders and its history. The book will also be a key resource for scholars of South Asian history and politics, colonial history and those studying indigenous identity.
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Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 538 |
Release |
: 2020-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004431768 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004431764 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law by :
The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law aims to publish peer-reviewed scholarly articles and reviews as well as significant developments in human rights and humanitarian law. It examines international human rights and humanitarian law with a global reach, though its particular focus is on the Asian region. The focused theme of Volume 4 is India and Human Rights.
Author |
: Tamina M. Chowdhury |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2016-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317202936 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317202937 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Indigenous Identity in South Asia by : Tamina M. Chowdhury
In the immediate aftermath of the creation of Bangladesh in 1971, an armed struggle ensued in its remote south-eastern corner. The hill people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, more commonly referred to as paharis, demanded official recognition, and autonomy, as the indigenous people of the Tracts. This demand for autonomy was primarily based on the claim that they were ethnically distinct from the majority ‘Bengali’ population of Bangladesh, and thereby needed to protect their unique identity. This book challenges the general perception within existing scholarship that indigenous claims coming from the Tracts are a recent and contemporary phenomenon, which emerged with the founding of the Bangladesh state. By analysing the processes of colonisation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, the author argues that identities of distinct ethnicity and tradition predate the creation of Bangladesh, and first began to evolve under British patronage. It is asserted that claims to indigeneity must be understood as an outcome of prolonged and complex processes of interaction between hill peoples – largely the Hill Tracts elites – and the Raj. Using hitherto unexplored archival sources, Indigenous Identity in South Asia sheds new light on how the concepts of ‘territory’, and of a ‘people indigenous to it’ came to be forged and politicised. By showing a far deeper historical lineage of claims making in the Tracts, it adds a new dimension to existing studies on Bangladesh’s borders and its history. The book will also be a key resource for scholars of South Asian history and politics, colonial history and those studying indigenous identity.
Author |
: Anita Anantharam |
Publisher |
: Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2012-01-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780815650591 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0815650590 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bodies That Remember by : Anita Anantharam
An engaging and informative exploration of four women poets writing in Hindi and Urdu over the course of the twentieth century in India and Pakistan. Anantharam follows the authors and their works, as both countries undergo profound political and social transformations. The book tells of how these women forge solidarities with women from different, castes, classes, and religions through their poetry.
Author |
: Sumit Guha |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2013-09-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004254855 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004254854 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond Caste by : Sumit Guha
'Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present. It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity and explains why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in non-Hindu communities across South Asia.
Author |
: Markus Schleiter |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 2019-07-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429755613 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429755619 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia by : Markus Schleiter
How do videos, movies and documentaries dedicated to indigenous communities transform the media landscape of South Asia? Based on extensive original research, this book examines how in South Asia popular music videos, activist political clips, movies and documentaries about, by and for indigenous communities take on radically new significances. Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia shows how in the portrayal of indigenous groups by both ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ imaginations of indigeneity and nation become increasingly interlinked. Indigenous groups, typically marginal to the nation, are at the same time part of mainstream polities and cultures. Drawing on perspectives from media studies and visual anthropology, this book compares and contrasts the situation in South Asia with indigeneity globally. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license.
Author |
: Vivek Sachdeva |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2019-04-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780429627798 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0429627793 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Identities in South Asia by : Vivek Sachdeva
This book examines how identities are formed and expressed in political, social and cultural contexts across South Asia. It is a comprehensive intervention on how, why and what identities have come to be, and takes a closer look at the complexities of their interactions. Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach, combining methodologies from history, literary studies, politics, and sociology, this book: • Explores the multiple ways in which personal and collective identities manifest and engage, are challenged and resisted across time and space.; • Highlights how the shared history of colonialism and partition, communal violence, bloodshed and pogrom are instrumental in understanding present-day developments in identity politics.; • Sheds light on a number of current themes such as borders and nations, race and ethnicity, identity politics and fundamentalism, language and regionalism, memory and community, and resistance and assertion. A key volume in South Asian Studies, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, politics, sociology, literary studies and social exclusion.
Author |
: Tanweer Fazal |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 166 |
Release |
: 2013-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317966470 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317966473 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis Minority Nationalisms in South Asia by : Tanweer Fazal
South Asia is the theatre of myriad experimentations with nationalisms of various kinds - religious, linguistic, religio-linguistic, composite, plural and exclusivist. In all the region’s major states, officially promulgated nationalism at various times has been fiercely contested by minority groups intent on preserving what they see as the pristine purity of their own cultural inheritance. This volume examines the perspective of minority identities as they negotiate their terms of co-existence, accommodation and adaptation with several other competing identities within the framework of the ‘nation state’ in South Asia. It examines three different kinds of minority articulations – cultural conclaves with real or fictitious attachments to an imaginary homeland, the identity problems of dispersed minorities with no territorial claims and the aspirations of indigenous communities, tribes or ethnicities. The essays in this volume offer a rich menu: the evolution of Naga nationalism, the construction of the territory-less Sylheti identity, the debates over Pashtun nationalism in Pakistan, the evolution of Muslim nationalism in Sri Lanka, the politics of religious minorities in Bangladesh and Pakistan, the making of minority politics in India, and questions of Islam and nationalism in colonial India. It is an eclectic mix for students of nationalism, politics, modern history and anyone interested in the evolution of South Asia. This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.
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Total Pages |
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Release |
: 2020-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9004355529 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004355521 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brill's Encyclopedia of Religions of Indigenous People of South Asia by :
Author |
: Ajaya Kumar Sahoo |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 189 |
Release |
: 2016-04-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134919611 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134919611 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Diaspora and Identity by : Ajaya Kumar Sahoo
This book investigates the identity issues of South Asians in the diaspora. It engages the theoretical and methodological debates concerning processes of culture and identity in the contemporary context of globalisation and transnationalism. It analyses the South Asian diaspora - a perfect route to a deeper understanding of contemporary socio-cultural transformations and the way in which information and communication technology functions as both a catalyst and indicator of such transformations. The book will be of interest to scholars of diaspora studies, cultural studies, international migration studies, and ethnic and racial studies. This book is a collection of papers from the journal South Asian Diaspora.