Ghosts From the Past?

Assessing Recent Developments in Religious Freedom in South Asia
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-51654-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

Over the last few years, questions of religious freedom and the rights of religious minorities in South Asia have rarely been out of the international headlines. The position of Muslims in an increasingly nationalist India, the impact of Islamic blasphemy laws in Pakistan, the intensifying clash between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, attacks on the Muslim Rohingyas of Myanmar, tensions between Buddhists, Muslims and Christians in Sri Lanka, the struggle between Islam and secularism in Bangladesh: in all of these fields, as difficulties grow, there is an ever-increasing need to understand the history and genesis of the current problems.

This volume, based on a conference held at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars in Washington DC, in collaboration with the Royal Society for Asian Affairs in London, brings together a number of chapters written by a host of leading international scholars and policy experts. These chapters go back to the origins of national constitutions and fundamental laws, tracing their impact to the present. They explain how and why questions of state intention and ideology that were passed over during the crafting of these countries’ constitutions have returned to haunt South Asia with greater urgency and consequence.

This book was originally published as special issue of the journal Asian Affairs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nair, Neeti

Kugelman, Michael

Omrani, Bijan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Bijan Omrani

Introduction

Neeti Nair

1. The Indian Constituent Assembly and the Making of Hindus and Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir

Mridu Rai

2. Constitutional Issues and the Treatment of Pakistan’s Religious Minorities

Farahnaz Ispahani

3. Secular Quests, National Others: Revisiting Bangladesh’s Constituent Assembly Debates

Dina M. Siddiqi

4. Myanmar: Religious Minorities and Constitutional Questions

Christina Fink

5. Religious Intolerance in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka

Neil DeVotta

6. More Than Meets the Eye: The Narratives of Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh

Ali Riaz

7. Unpacking the Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan

Raza Rumi

8. Cow Protection and Minority Rights in India: Reassessing Religious Freedom

Cassie Adcock

Über Autor(innen)

Neeti Nair is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia.

Michael Kugelman is Deputy Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars, Washington DC.

Bijan Omrani is Editor of the journal Asian Affairs.