| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 337 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: search for home in eastern South Asia -- Part I. Crossing internal and international borders -- 2. Displacement, conflict and agency in Assam -- 3. Migration from North-East India since the 1990s: ethnopolitical issues and economic development perspectives -- 4. Identifying the factors and processes of Bangladeshi immigration into West Bengal: a qualitative study -- Part II. Movements for homeland -- 5. Alien for home country, unwanted in foreign land: Rohinga refugees in South Asia -- 6. Home and belonging in northeast India: ethnic territoriality, conflict, and citizenship in the India-Myanmar borderland -- 7. Armed conflict in Manipur -- 8. Decoding Bodo movement and and peace accords: enduring ethic solution versus political expediency -- 9. Napali speakers of West Bengal, politics of self-rule, and political elites -- Part III. Defining self and others in eastern South Asia -- 10. Koch Rajbanshis and the Kamatapur movement: Azadi in eastern India? -- 11. The Madhesh movement in Nepal: at the crossroad -- 12. The Chittagong Hill Tracts peace accord: promises and performances -- 13. Concluding analysis -- Index |
| Summary |
Delving into the past and present of various secessionist movements in Northeast India, political conflict in Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, a political movement for autonomy in Darjeeling hills in Eastern India, and the Rohingya migration crisis affecting India and Bangladesh, this book examines the volatile co-existence of competing population groups in Eastern South Asia. Through the conceptual lens of the 'home' and feeling of 'homeland' in Eastern South Asia, the authors seek answers to three complex but interrelated questions: why is Eastern South Asia facing so many political movements and conflicts? How have the political movements affected the region and people? Why is the number of migrants in this region so high? Answers to these questions are vital to those studying South Asia and interested in understanding this region |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebscohost, viewed on June 26, 2023) |
| Subject |
Autonomy and independence movements
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Emigration and immigration
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
South Asia -- Emigration and immigration
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South Asia -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
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South Asia -- Politics and government
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| Subject |
South Asia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ranjan, Amit (Researcher on South Asia), editor.
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Chattoraj, Diotima, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031287640 |
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3031287649 |
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