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The Post-Colonial States of South Asia Political and Constitutional Problems
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This text discusses the principal political and constitutional questions that have arisen in the states of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka following fifty years of independence. In Sri Lanka the pressing problems have been around the inter-ethnic civil war, experiments with constitutional designs, widespread prevalence of corruption and the recrudescence of Buddhist militancy. In... Read more
Acknowledgments, List of Contributors, Introduction The Post-Colonial States of South Asia: Democracy, Identity, Development and Security, PART I DEMOCRACY, PART II IDENTITY, PART III DEVELOPMENT, PART IV SECURITY, Index
Biography
Amita Shastri, A. Jeyaratnam Wilson
'An excellent modern history of and introduction to the contemporary politics of South Asia.' - Ethnic and Racial Studies
