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This book looks at conflict zones in the Asia Pacific with a
special focus on secessionist groups/movements in the Indian
Northeast, Tibet, Chinese Xinjiang, the Burmese borderlands,
Kashmir in South Asia, CHT in Bangladesh, South Thailand, and Aceh
in Indonesia. These conflict zones are predominantly ethnic
minority provinces, which by and large do not share a sense of
one-ness with the country that they are currently a part of; most
of these insurgencies have had strong linkages with separatist
nationalist groups in the region. Methodologically, the author uses
extensive fieldwork, interview data, and participant observation
from these conflict zones to take a bottom-up approach, giving
importance to the voices of ordinary people and/or the residents of
these conflict zones whose voices have generally been ignored.
Although the book looks at both the historical background and
contemporary dimensions of these conflicts, the author focuses on
exploring how the role of race, ethnicity and religion in these
conflicts can be both direct and indirect. This book will be of
great interest to students and scholars of conflict and security in
contemporary Asia with a background in politics, history, IR,
security studies, religion, and sociology.
For a long time, India and China have been seen as the rising
economic giants on the Asiatic mainland. Studies of the conflicts
which have plagued the borderlands of India and China however have
tended to only analyse individual case studies without attempting
to compare and contrast the situation in these conflicts. This book
compares and contrasts the situation in India's disputed
borderlands - Kashmir and the Indian north eastern states - with
China's contested borderlands - Xinjiang and Tibet. The book looks
at the root causes of the conflict and how these conflicts have
evolved and changed their character with the passage of time.
Analysing how the countries have dealt with their territorial
disputes from the 50's till more recent times, the author shows to
what extent these state policies have exacerbated the already
strained situation. Using primary data collected primarily through
interviews, from the people/inhabitants of these conflict zones,
the book throws new light on the problem. This bottom up approach
allows the people to speak and provides a different understanding
of the nature of the conflict, which may very well be the way
forward for long lasting peace. A comparative study of the
conflicts in the contested borderlands of China and India, the book
will be of interest to scholars studying Asian security studies and
Asian Politics particularly and Defence and Security Studies more
generally.
This book looks at conflict zones in the Asia Pacific with a
special focus on secessionist groups/movements in the Indian
Northeast, Tibet, Chinese Xinjiang, the Burmese borderlands,
Kashmir in South Asia, CHT in Bangladesh, South Thailand, and Aceh
in Indonesia. These conflict zones are predominantly ethnic
minority provinces, which by and large do not share a sense of
one-ness with the country that they are currently a part of; most
of these insurgencies have had strong linkages with separatist
nationalist groups in the region. Methodologically, the author uses
extensive fieldwork, interview data, and participant observation
from these conflict zones to take a bottom-up approach, giving
importance to the voices of ordinary people and/or the residents of
these conflict zones whose voices have generally been ignored.
Although the book looks at both the historical background and
contemporary dimensions of these conflicts, the author focuses on
exploring how the role of race, ethnicity and religion in these
conflicts can be both direct and indirect. This book will be of
great interest to students and scholars of conflict and security in
contemporary Asia with a background in politics, history, IR,
security studies, religion, and sociology.
For a long time, India and China have been seen as the rising
economic giants on the Asiatic mainland. Studies of the conflicts
which have plagued the borderlands of India and China however have
tended to only analyse individual case studies without attempting
to compare and contrast the situation in these conflicts. This book
compares and contrasts the situation in India's disputed
borderlands - Kashmir and the Indian north eastern states - with
China's contested borderlands - Xinjiang and Tibet. The book looks
at the root causes of the conflict and how these conflicts have
evolved and changed their character with the passage of time.
Analysing how the countries have dealt with their territorial
disputes from the 50's till more recent times, the author shows to
what extent these state policies have exacerbated the already
strained situation. Using primary data collected primarily through
interviews, from the people/inhabitants of these conflict zones,
the book throws new light on the problem. This bottom up approach
allows the people to speak and provides a different understanding
of the nature of the conflict, which may very well be the way
forward for long lasting peace. A comparative study of the
conflicts in the contested borderlands of China and India, the book
will be of interest to scholars studying Asian security studies and
Asian Politics particularly and Defence and Security Studies more
generally.
Haunted by dreams of an unforgettable loss, Rahul, a young man of
thirty living in San Francisco, suddenly becomes secretive and
withdraws from his partner Andrew. When Andrew discovers that Rahul
is still interviewing girls sent by his parents for an arranged
marriage, he gives Rahul an ultimatum-stop living a lie, or give up
their relationship. In response, Rahul tells Andrew a story. About
a boy who lived in a palace. A boy named Rahul. Set in San
Francisco today and in India in the early 1970s, My Magical Palace
is a sensitive tale about a boy's coming of age, and the many
hurdles he must cross to heal and find himself.
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