1st Edition
The Dynamics of Conflict and Peace in Contemporary South Asia The State, Democracy and Social Movements
Introduction
Kazuya Nakamizo, Tatsuro Fujikura, Minoru Mio
Part I Democracy, State and Religion
1. Democracy and Vigilantism in India: Spread of Gau Rakshaks
Kazuya Nakamizo
2. Creating Majoritarian Democracy: Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2017 Legislative Assembly Election in Uttar Pradesh
Norio Kondo
3. Practicing the Right to Indifference: Secularism, Toleration, and Islamophobia in Indian and American National Subjectivities
Peter Gottschalk
4. State and Violence in Burma/Myanmar: The Rohingya Crisis and its Implication for South and Southeast Asia
Kazi Fahmida Farzana
Part II Democratization and Social Movements
5. Manifestation of Dalit Rights, Justice and Dalit-ness in the Post-Mandal Era
Maya Suzuki
6. Homogenization of Social Movement Dynamics under a "Clever" Nepali State, 2007-2012
Lokranjan Parajuli
7. Abul Sattar Edhi: The Modern Incarnation of a Pacifist Sufi
Tahir Kamran
8. Movements of flats and citizens: Notes on spatial politics in Mumbai
Yoko Taguchi
Part III How does a conflict end?
9. Life beyond the paradox: peace, ethnic conflict, and everyday realities of Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
Ranjan Saha Partha
10. Communities and Mediation in Post-conflict Nepal
Tatsuro Fujikura
11. Maps, Migration, Melancholia
Pradeep Jeganathan
Biography
Minoru Mio is a professor and the director of the Department of Globalization and Humanities at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. He is one of the series editors of the Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies and has co-edited Cities in South Asia (with Crispin Bates, 2015), Human and International Security in India (with Crispin Bates and Akio Tanabe, 2015) and Rethinking Social Exclusion in India (with Abhijit Dasgupta, 2017), also published by Routledge.
Kazuya Nakamizo is a professor in the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. He is the author of Violence and Democracy: The Collapse of One-Party Dominant Rule in India (2020).
Tatsuro Fujikura is a professor in the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, and the director of the Center for South Asian Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. He is the author of Discourses of Awareness: Development, Social Movements and the Practices of Freedom in Nepal (2013).
