Overview of Identity, Cultural Pluralism and State: South Asia in Perspective Book

This is the first composite book on South Asia dealing with such vital issues as the cultural identity, nationhood, ethnicity, and politicization of religion, ethnic conflict and the efforts of the states to engage with them. Politics of religion, minority languages and promises of cultural pluralism have received critical appraisal in this stimulating volume. The broad theoretical intent of the volume, then, is to find out what is at stake in contemporary adjustment of culturally pluralistic societies of South Asia, and what threats and promises stretch out ahead. In order to understand the issues of cultural identity, pluralism, and the mixed cultural and linguistic traditions of South Asia in general and the people of India, in particular, the Anthropological Survey of India organised an International Conference on Identity, Cultural Pluralism and the State, where South Asian specialists from India, Germany, Sweden, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and the Survey s scholars

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Paperback

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English

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• ISBN - 10 :

0230638597

• Identity, Cultural Pluralism and State: South Asia in Perspective Published On :

2009

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