"The present volume is an edited version of the papers presented at an international conference ... in June 2000 at the IACIS/ASRC"--Introduction. The outsider, the state, and nations from below North East India as a subject of exclusion / Prasenjit Biswas and Shukalpa Bhattacharjee -- Big state-small nations : the experience of ethnic Nagas in colonial and postcolonial India / Monirul Hussain -- Post-colonial discursive structures and identity formation in India : evidence from Jharkhand / Amit Prakash -- Ethnicity, interaction, and modes of conflict : a case profile of the Koya tribals and the Bengali refugee settlers in Malkangiri (Orissa) / Subhendu Sekhar Padhi and J.K. Baral -- Building a better Bharat for the billion : revival of all-India identity / B. Ramesh Babu. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Ethnicity, identity, and state in South Asia : an overview / B.C. Upreti -- Politics of ethnicity and regionalism and the state in India / A.N. Panda -- Policy-making and connections to violence : a case study of India / Marie L. Olson and Frederic S. Pearson -- Ethnicity in Nepal : its regional implications / Ananta Raj Poudyal -- Rohingyas of Myanmar : the identity crisis and its implications for Myanmar, Bangladesh, and India / Swapna Bhattacharya (Chakraborti) -- Responses of the state towards the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka / Gamini Samaranayake -- The rise of new Sinhala nationalism / Sunanda Deshapriya -- Emergence of Tamil ethnicity in Sri Lanka / Aparna Agashe -- India and its north east : the challenges of regionalism and migration / Sanjoy Hazarika -- Ethnic politics in Northeast India : understanding elite conflict and political mobilization / Girin Phukon -- Identity claims : paradox of recognition and redistribution in North-East India / Rajesh Dev --
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