Stateless in South Asia : the Chakmas between Bangladesh and India / Deepak K. Singh.

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Singh, Deepak K

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TextSeries: Sage studies on India's north eastPublication details: Los Angeles : Sage ; Bangalore : New India Foundation, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxiii, 289 pages) : mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9788132104940
8132104943
9788132102366
8132102363

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Stateless in South Asia.DDC classification:

305.891/44 22

LOC classification:

HV640.5.B35 S56 2010eb

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Contents:

Chakma refugees: partition residues and development victims -- CHT and NEFA: from colonial outposts to postcolonial peripheries -- Politics of demographic (dis)order in Northeast India: the idiom of protest -- Chakma diaspora in Northeast India: excluded communities, fragmented identities -- Official discourses of the Chakma issue: centre versus state -- Chakmas' self-perceptions: understanding everyday lived experiences of refugees -- Arunachalis' self-perceptions: assertion and reconstruction of identity and ethnic nationalism -- The making of refugees in South Asia: nation, state and outsiders -- Interrogating India's refugee policy.

Summary: What does it mean to be 'stateless' in the modern postcolonial context? This fascinating study addresses this complex question through the case of the Chakma refugees in Arunachal Pradesh. The largely neglected social history of the ethnic Buddhist Chakmas, whose homeland is the Chittagong Hill Tracts (in the present day Bangladesh), carries the multiple imprints of partition, dominant development paradigm and religious persecution. As refugees in the strategically sensitive and disputed territory of Arunachal Pradesh in India's Northeast, they are locked in an intractable conflict over land a.

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What does it mean to be 'stateless' in the modern postcolonial context? This fascinating study addresses this complex question through the case of the Chakma refugees in Arunachal Pradesh. The largely neglected social history of the ethnic Buddhist Chakmas, whose homeland is the Chittagong Hill Tracts (in the present day Bangladesh), carries the multiple imprints of partition, dominant development paradigm and religious persecution. As refugees in the strategically sensitive and disputed territory of Arunachal Pradesh in India's Northeast, they are locked in an intractable conflict over land a.