Identities in South Asia Conflicts and Assertions

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This book examines how identities are formed and expressed in political social and cultural contexts across South Asia. It is a comprehensive intervention on how why and what identities have come to be and takes a closer look at the complexities of their interactions. Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach combining methodologies from history literary studies politics and sociology this book: • Explores the multiple ways in which personal and collective identities manifest and engage are challenged and resisted across time and space. ;• Highlights how the shared history of colonialism and partition communal violence bloodshed and pogrom are instrumental in understanding present-day developments in identity politics. ;• Sheds light on a number of current themes such as borders and nations race and ethnicity identity politics and fundamentalism language and regionalism memory and community and resistance and assertion. A key volume in South Asian Studies this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history politics sociology literary studies and social exclusion. | Identities in South Asia Conflicts and Assertions