The No Nonsense Guide to Minority Rights in South Asia

Download or read book The No Nonsense Guide to Minority Rights in South Asia written by Rita Manchanda and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2009-09-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This a practical primer on issues related to minority rights in South Asian countries. By taking a rights-based approach, the book clearly develops an understanding that majoritarian and authoritarian policies have always got an upper hand throughout the history of nation-building in South Asia. While elaborating on such 'politics of recognition and inequality' and 'modes of exclusion', it goes on to explore the ethnic composition of each South Asian country-India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Bhutan. It presents a detailed account of the socio-economic inequality, religious and language discrimination, political under-representation and constitutional and legal oppression meted out to the minorities in these countries.