Minority Nationalisms in South Asia

by Tanweer Fazal

South Asia is the theatre of myriad experimentations with nationalisms of various kinds - religious, linguistic, religio-linguistic, composite, plural and exclusivist. In all the region's major states, officially promulgated nationalism at various times has been fiercely contested by minority groups intent on preserving what they see as the pristine purity of their own cultural inheritance.

This volume examines the perspective of minority...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138814490
• ISBN13: 9781138814493
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"