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Nation-state and Minority Rights in India - Comparative Perspectives on Muslim and Sikh Identities (Paperback)
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Nation-state and Minority Rights in India - Comparative Perspectives on Muslim and Sikh Identities (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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The blood-laden birth-pangs of the Indian "nation-state"
undoubtedly had a bearing on the contentious issue of group rights
for cultural minorities. Indeed, the trajectory of the concept
'minority rights' evolved amidst multiple conceptualizations,
political posturing and violent mobilizations and outbursts.
Accommodating minority groups posed a predicament for the fledgling
"nation-state" of post-colonial India. This book compares and
contrasts Muslim and Sikh communities in pre- and post-Partition
India. Mapping the evolving discourse on minority rights, the
author looks at the overlaps between the Constitutional and the
majoritarian discourse being articulated in the public sphere and
poses questions about the guaranteeing of minority rights. The book
suggests that through historical ruptures and breaks , communities
oscillate between being minorities and nations. Combining archival
material with ethnographic fieldwork, it studies the identity
groups and their vexed relationship to the ideas of nation and
nationalism. It captures meanings attributed to otherwise
politically loaded concepts such as nation, nation-state and
minority rights in the everyday world of Muslims and Sikhs and thus
tries to make sense of the patterns of accommodation, adaptation
and contestation in the life-world. Successfully confronting and
illuminating the challenge of reconciling representation and
equality both for groups and within groups, this exploration of
South Asian nationalisms and communal relations will be of interest
to academics in the field of South Asian Studies, in particular
Sociology and Politics.
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