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1st Edition

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

Edited By Neeti Nair, Michael Kugelman, Bijan Omrani Copyright 2022

172 Pages

by Routledge

172 Pages

by Routledge

172 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

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... Read more

Table of Contents

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

Editor(s)

Biography

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.

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