Kashmir and Sindh: Nation-Building, Ethnicity and Regional Politics in South Asia

by Suranjan Das

Overview

Professor Das provides a fascinating study of the issue of ethnic politics in multi-ethnic Third World countries, and discusses the non-convergence of state and nation in the context of Kashmir and Sindh.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781898855699
Publisher:	Anthem Press
Publication date:	08/01/2001
Series:	Anthem South Asian Studies
Edition description:	First Edition, 1
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Suranjan Das is Professor of History at the University of Calcutta and the Director of the Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Calcutta.

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; The Kashmir Imbroglio; The Sindh Question in Pakistan's Polity; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index

Editorial Reviews

Das Univ. of Calcutta, Communal Riots in Bengal, 1905-1947, 1991 is renowned for his studies of the rise of Muslim ethnic identity in Bengal. That is, how class struggle between Muslim peasants and Hindu landlords and moneylenders turned into conflict along communal lines. His study of Kashmir and Sindh is based on the analytical model "which relates ethnic politics to the non-convergence of state and nation.

R. D. Long