State, Society, and Minorities in South and Southeast Asia

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South and Southeast Asia continue to be extremely critical regions, deeply intertwined and bound in many ways by centuries of intersecting histories. As the recent experiences of rapid and transformative political and economic changes in several countries in these two regions illustrate, these changes have significant bearing on and are simultaneously affected by the legacy and continued dynamic of dominant-minority group relations. To be sure, while the dynamics of dominant-minority relations in each country are distinct and often mitigated by distinct historical conditions, the phenomenon of these dominant-minority relations, especially along ethnic and religious fault lines, are deeply consequential to many of the nations in these regions. This book, featuring eight case studies, provides a multidisciplinary and multi-layered assessment of the salience of the ethnic and religious realities in shaping various South and Southeast Asian nations. Featuring chapters on Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, this volume provides a deep appreciation of the challenges that these societies confront in integrating and/or responding to specific ethnic and/or religious based conflicts and tensions. Contents Introduction South and Southeast Asia Chapter One: Memory, History, and Landscape Chapter Two: Sri Lanka after the War Chapter Three: Internal Displacement of Kashmiri Pandits Chapter Four: Ethnic Cleansing Chapter Five: Orientation and Citizenship Status of the Indonesian Chinese and Political Implications Chapter Six: The Politics of Ethnic Marginalization and Foreign Policy in Malaysia Chapter Seven: The Ethnic Chinese in Cambodia’s Pre-War Economy Chapter Eight: Justice and Rights in the Malay-Muslim South of Thailand Index Contributors