This book studies minorities of South Asia and Europe in a
comparative and transnational perspective. While country-specific
studies in minorities are not rare, their comparisons within a
region (like South Asia and Europe) or across them are almost
non-existent. This is so because the history of the formation of
minorities in many ways coincides with that of the formation of
nation-states. As modern states emerge and their boundaries are
drawn precisely, minorities are created -- if not 'trapped' and
'colonised' -- within them. Comparisons among minorities are often
regarded as to politically volatile a subject to be encouraged by
nation-states. Today it is imperative to undertake this task as the
forces and processes of globalisation flush the minorities out of
their respective state boundaries. Caught in the whirlpool of
global politics, minorities sometimes do not know how to retain the
autonomy of their social and political agendas. Modern minorities
are the product of nationalist discourse. It suggests a new agenda
in minority discourse.
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