Ghosts From the Past?: Assessing Recent Developments in Religious Freedom in South Asia

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Neeti Nair Michael Kugelman

Ghosts From the Past?

Assessing Recent Developments in Religious Freedom in South Asia

Neeti Nair, Michael Kugelman, Bijan Omrani

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Routledge
03 August 2021

Social & cultural history; Religious issues & debates; Human rights

Over the last few years, questions of religious freedom and the rights of religious minorities in South Asia have rarely been out of the international headlines. The position of Muslims in an increasingly nationalist India, the impact of Islamic blasphemy laws in Pakistan, the intensifying clash between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, attacks on the Muslim Rohingyas of Myanmar, tensions between Buddhists, Muslims and Christians in Sri Lanka, the struggle between Islam and secularism in Bangladesh: in all of these fields, as difficulties grow, there is an ever-increasing need to understand the history and genesis of the current problems.

This volume, based on a conference held at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars in Washington DC, in collaboration with the Royal Society for Asian Affairs in London, brings together a number of chapters written by a host of leading international scholars and policy experts. These chapters go back to the origins of national constitutions and fundamental laws, tracing their impact to the present. They explain how and why questions of state intention and ideology that were passed over during the crafting of these countries’ constitutions have returned to haunt South Asia with greater urgency and consequence.

This book was originally published as special issue of the journal Asian Affairs.

Edited by: Neeti Nair, Michael Kugelman, Bijan Omrani
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780367516543
ISBN 10: 0367516543
Pages: 162
Publication Date: 03 August 2021
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Bijan Omrani Introduction Neeti Nair 1. The Indian Constituent Assembly and the Making of Hindus and Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir Mridu Rai 2. Constitutional Issues and the Treatment of Pakistan’s Religious Minorities Farahnaz Ispahani 3. Secular Quests, National Others: Revisiting Bangladesh’s Constituent Assembly Debates Dina M. Siddiqi 4. Myanmar: Religious Minorities and Constitutional Questions Christina Fink 5. Religious Intolerance in Post-Civil War Sri Lanka Neil DeVotta 6. More Than Meets the Eye: The Narratives of Secularism and Islam in Bangladesh Ali Riaz 7. Unpacking the Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan Raza Rumi 8. Cow Protection and Minority Rights in India: Reassessing Religious Freedom Cassie Adcock

Neeti Nair is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Michael Kugelman is Deputy Director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for Scholars, Washington DC. Bijan Omrani is Editor of the journal Asian Affairs.