State, society, and minorities in South and Southeast Asia / / edited by Sunil Kukreja.

• TeilnehmendeR: Kukreja, Sunil,
• Place / Publishing House: Lanham : : Lexington Books,, [2015]; 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (198 pages) :; illustrations, map

"This book provides a multidisciplinary and multilayered assessment of the salience of the ethnic and religious realities of shaping various South and Southeast Asian nations. Featuring chapters on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, it offers a deep appreciation of the challenges that these societies confront in integrating and/or responding to specific ethnic- and/or religious-based conflicts and tensions"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Map of South and Southeast Asia -- Memory, history, and landscape : ethnic Hazaras' understanding of marginality in Bamyan, Afghanistan / Melissa Kerr Chiovenda -- Sri Lanka after the war : reconciliation vs marginalization / Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam -- Internal displacement of Kashmiri Pandits / Sudha G. Rajput -- Ethnic cleansing : the neglected case of the Hindus of Bangladesh / Richard L. Benkin -- Orientation and citizenship status of the Indonesian Chinese and political implications / Taufiq Tanasaldy -- The politics of ethnic marginalization and foreign policy in Malaysia / Amy L. Freedman -- The ethnic Chinese in Cambodia's pre-war economy / Peter J. Hammer -- Justice and rights in the Malay Muslim south of Thailand / Thanet Aphornsuvan.