Stateless in South Asia : the Chakmas between Bangladesh and India / Deepak K. Singh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Singh, Deepak K.

Series:

Sage studies on India's north east

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Bangladesh--Chittagong Hill Tracts (Region).

Refugees.

Chakma (Asian people).

Bangladesh--Chittagong Hill Tracts (Region).

Refugees--India--Arunāchal Pradesh.

Chakma (Asian people)--Bangladesh--Chittagong Hill Tracts (Region).

Chakma (Asian people)--India--Arunāchal Pradesh.

India--Arunāchal Pradesh.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 289 p : maps.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Sage, 2010.

Contents:

Chakma refugees: partition residues and development victims

CHT and NEFA: from colonial outposts to postcolonial peripheries

Politics of demographic (dis)order in Northeast India: the idiom of protest

Chakma diaspora in Northeast India: excluded communities, fragmented identities

Official discourses of the Chakma issue: centre versus state

Chakmas' self-perceptions: understanding everyday lived experiences of refugees

Arunachalis' self-perceptions: assertion and reconstruction of identity and ethnic nationalism

The making of refugees in South Asia: nation, state and outsiders

Interrogating India's refugee policy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [268]-282) and index.

ISBN:

9788132102366

8132102363

OCLC:

774090949