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The colonial legacy in the construction of the modern Indian state
has left a deep imprint on contemporary Indians' self-identity and
self-determination. Borderland Politics in Northern India is a
collection of essays, giving detailed accounts of the many
different ways that people throughout India understand their
homeland, the territory where they live, and the broader region to
which they belong. Mona Chettri looks at the Gorkha community in
the Darjeeling hills to the northeast, Manjeet Baruah examines
Assam, and L. Lam Khan Piang explores the dispersion of the Zo
people throughout many northeastern states. In the northwest, Aijaz
Ashraf Wani illustrates how Jammu and Kashmir state is severed
along complex regional, religious, and ethnic lines. This book is
an invaluable source for readers interested in comparative studies
of borderlands globally. It also contributes to South Asian studies
broadly conceived, to Indian border studies, and to local social,
cultural, and political histories of the constituent border regions
of Northern India. This book was published as a special issue of
Asian Ethnicity.
An upsurge in violence between Uyghur and Han in China's far
western region of Xinjiang has gained increased media and academic
attention in recent years as was evidenced in the July 2009 riots.
Numbering over eight million, the Uyghur are China's fifth-largest
minority nationality, and their mounting aspiration for obtaining
more autonomy has contributed to the recent ethnic conflicts in the
region. This book looks at those who are seeking to preserve the
Uyghur identity, and support the secession of Xinjiang from China
in order to create their own independent state by exploring the
global operations and sister groups of the Uyghur diaspora umbrella
organization, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC). It examines the
networks of the WUC, the coalitions it has formed, the strategies
the organization pursues to raise public awareness about Uyghur
issues around the globe, and looks at the actors that have emerged
as key players in the contemporary WUC network. Further, this book
shows that the Uyghur lobby is not a unified movement, but that the
local groups that it consists of are highly constrained by the
broader domestic politics of their host countries, a fact which has
a significant impact on the lobby's ability to realize its
strategic and political ambitions. In turn, Yu-Wen Chen gauges the
impact of the WUC on public opinion and policymakers in the world's
democracies, and shows how since Uyghur organizations have been
given legitimacy by liberal democracies and international
governmental organizations, they can no longer be considered merely
splintered members of a far-flung diaspora locked in a one-sided
struggle with Beijing. Indeed, Uyghur activists can and do use
their hard-won legitimacy as legal migrants and asylum seekers to
influence politics in their host countries. This unique and timely
study reveals how an issue concerning a Chinese minority has been
catapulted onto the wider global political stage, and as such, it
will be of great interest to students and scholars working on
Chinese politics, the Uyghur issue, and minority and ethnic
politics, social movements, human rights, and international
politics more broadly.
Politics, history, and religion have long lent Tibet a glamorous
air, particularly in the West. But Tibet can be understood in an
astonishingly wide variety of other ways, including linguistic,
ecological, environmental and climatological, geographical,
geological, economic, biologic, sociologic, medicinal. Tibetan
Studies in Comparative Perspective touches on all the elements of
the Tibet issue, offering invaluable insight to a wide variety of
readers, from specialists to those with a general interest in the
topic. By putting readers into the shoes of all the stakeholders,
from the Dalai Lama in his home in exile and the various Tibetan
exile communities, to decision makers in Beijing, New Delhi,
Washington and London, the issues at stake come into bold relief.
Furthermore, the book examines the potential opportunities that lay
ahead, documents where and how Tibetans have been dispersed and
offers a glimpse into the social and political undercurrents
sending shudders through this exiled nation. With the chasm between
exiles and indigenous Tibetans growing ever-larger, what challenges
do Tibetans confront just to remain Tibetan? And how will this
shape the future of their political movement? The book provides a
timely re-examination of the contemporary predicament of Tibetans,
both in and out of Tibet. This book was published as two special
issues of Asian Ethnicity.
The colonial legacy in the construction of the modern Indian
state has left a deep imprint on contemporary Indians self-identity
and self-determination. "Borderland Politics in Northern India" is
a collection of essays, giving detailed accounts of the many
different ways that people throughout India understand their
homeland, the territory where they live, and the broader region to
which they belong. Mona Chettri looks at the Gorkha community in
the Darjeeling hills to the northeast, Manjeet Baruah examines
Assam, and L. Lam Khan Piang explores the dispersion of the Zo
people throughout many northeastern states. In the northwest, Aijaz
Ashraf Wani illustrates how Jammu and Kashmir state is severed
along complex regional, religious, and ethnic lines. This book is
an invaluable source for readers interested in comparative studies
of borderlands globally. It also contributes to South Asian studies
broadly conceived, to Indian border studies, and to local social,
cultural, and political histories of the constituent border regions
of Northern India.
This book was published as a special issue of Asian
Ethnicity."
An upsurge in violence between Uyghur and Han in China's far
western region of Xinjiang has gained increased media and academic
attention in recent years as was evidenced in the July 2009 riots.
Numbering over eight million, the Uyghur are China's fifth-largest
minority nationality, and their mounting aspiration for obtaining
more autonomy has contributed to the recent ethnic conflicts in the
region. This book looks at those who are seeking to preserve the
Uyghur identity, and support the secession of Xinjiang from China
in order to create their own independent state by exploring the
global operations and sister groups of the Uyghur diaspora umbrella
organization, the World Uyghur Congress (WUC). It examines the
networks of the WUC, the coalitions it has formed, the strategies
the organization pursues to raise public awareness about Uyghur
issues around the globe, and looks at the actors that have emerged
as key players in the contemporary WUC network. Further, this book
shows that the Uyghur lobby is not a unified movement, but that the
local groups that it consists of are highly constrained by the
broader domestic politics of their host countries, a fact which has
a significant impact on the lobby's ability to realize its
strategic and political ambitions. In turn, Yu-Wen Chen gauges the
impact of the WUC on public opinion and policymakers in the world's
democracies, and shows how since Uyghur organizations have been
given legitimacy by liberal democracies and international
governmental organizations, they can no longer be considered merely
splintered members of a far-flung diaspora locked in a one-sided
struggle with Beijing. Indeed, Uyghur activists can and do use
their hard-won legitimacy as legal migrants and asylum seekers to
influence politics in their host countries. This unique and timely
study reveals how an issue concerning a Chinese minority has been
catapulted onto the wider global political stage, and as such, it
will be of great interest to students and scholars working on
Chinese politics, the Uyghur issue, and minority and ethnic
politics, social movements, human rights, and international
politics more broadly.
Politics, history, and religion have long lent Tibet a glamorous
air, particularly in the West. But Tibet can be understood in an
astonishingly wide variety of other ways, including linguistic,
ecological, environmental and climatological, geographical,
geological, economic, biologic, sociologic, medicinal. Tibetan
Studies in Comparative Perspective touches on all the elements of
the Tibet issue, offering invaluable insight to a wide variety of
readers, from specialists to those with a general interest in the
topic. By putting readers into the shoes of all the stakeholders,
from the Dalai Lama in his home in exile and the various Tibetan
exile communities, to decision makers in Beijing, New Delhi,
Washington and London, the issues at stake come into bold relief.
Furthermore, the book examines the potential opportunities that lay
ahead, documents where and how Tibetans have been dispersed and
offers a glimpse into the social and political undercurrents
sending shudders through this exiled nation. With the chasm between
exiles and indigenous Tibetans growing ever-larger, what challenges
do Tibetans confront just to remain Tibetan? And how will this
shape the future of their political movement? The book provides a
timely re-examination of the contemporary predicament of Tibetans,
both in and out of Tibet. This book was published as two special
issues of Asian Ethnicity.
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