This book has brought together a collection of carefully selected essays on religious minorities in South Asia with emphasis on the post-colonial situation covering Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Authors from around the South Asian region, France and UK use fresh empirical data to present portraits of religious minorities in each South Asian country individually. It is not a study of minority in isolation; it situates the religious minorities in the larger context of post-colonial history, society and polity. This two-volume work explores the relationship between the religious minorities and majorities on one hand and the relationship between the religious minorities and the state on the other. In the process it has not only reflected seriously on the minority situation but also on the actual functioning of social and political systems in South Asia. Hence, it has a great cross-disciplinary appeal. This work makes a major contribution to debate about reshaping our social, political and constitutional institutions operating in South Asia as we enter the 21 century.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lipi Ghosh
Dr. Lipi Ghosh is a historian with specialization in Southeast Asian studies. She has obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in History from the University of Calcutta. Currently she is a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Calcutta. Formerly she was Visiting Scholar at Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, Maison des Sciences de 1' Hommes, Paris, School of Oriental and African Studies, London and Ford Asia Fellow and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. She has wide range of publications in national and international academic journals. Her other published work is Burma: Myth of French Intrigue (Calcutta, 1994).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Monirul Hussain
Monirul Hussain an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, is a Professor of Political Science at Guahati University. Several of his papers have been published in reputed national and international academic journals. His book, The Assam Movement: Class, Ideology and Identity received wide appreciation. He co-edicted two volumes on Religious Minorities in South Asia: Selected Essays on Postcolonial Situation. He was Visiting Fellow at the Queen Elizabeth Huose, University of Oxford for a year. Currenlty he is a Professor at the Department of Political Science, Gauhati University, Guwahati, Assam. Besides teaching and guiding doctoral research, he is now engaged in two kanor international research projects on Human Security in South Asia and Displacement of Population in North East-India.
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