The Post-Colonial States of South Asia

Political and Constitutional Problems
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-7007-1292-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 734 g

This text discusses the principal political and constitutional questions that have arisen in the states of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka following fifty years of independence. In Sri Lanka the pressing problems have been around the inter-ethnic civil war, experiments with constitutional designs, widespread prevalence of corruption and the recrudescence of Buddhist militancy. In India it has been corruption, Hindu nationalism and general political instability. In Bangladesh and Pakistan it has been the role of the military, the state and religion. A general theme is an analysis of the malaise that is prevalent and how and why this was inherited, despite the colonial legacy of parliamentary democracy, the steel framework of a trained bureaucracy, the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shastri, Amita

Wilson, A. Jeyaratnam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments, List of Contributors, Introduction The Post-Colonial States of South Asia: Democracy, Identity, Development and Security, PART I DEMOCRACY, PART II IDENTITY, PART III DEVELOPMENT, PART IV SECURITY, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amita Shastri, A. Jeyaratnam Wilson