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

SAGE studies on India's North East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Refugees.

Refugees--India--Arunachal Pradesh.

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

Chakma (Asian people).

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 289 p.) : maps.

Place of Publication:

Delhi ; London : SAGE, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive study explores issues pertaining to the 'stateless' status of the ethnic Buddhist Chakma refugees in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh, who originally belonged to the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 - Chakma Refugees: Partition Residues and Development Victims; 2 - CHT and NEFA: From Colonial Outposts to Postcolonial Peripheries; 3 - Politics of Demographic (Dis)order in Northeast India: The Idiom of Protest; 4 - Chakma Diaspora in Northeast India: Excluded Communities, Fragmented Identities; 5 - Official Discourses of the Chakma Issue: Centre versus State; 6 - Chakmas' Self-perceptions: Understanding Everyday Lived Experiences of Refugees

7 - Arunachalis' Self-perceptions: Assertion and Reconstruction of Identity and Ethnic Nationalism8 - The Making of Refugees in South Asia: Nation, State and Outsiders; 9 - Interrogating India's Refugee Policy; References; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612503283

9789352802333

9352802330

9788132112822

8132112822

9781282503281

1282503286

9788132104940

8132104943

OCLC:

593295597