Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in South Asia

This volume, the second in the Governance, Conflict, and Civic Action series, examines civil society in South Asia through case studies of different kinds of ethnic (′communal′) activism. With chapters covering Nepal, Sri Lanka, and India (Darjeeling, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Tamil Nadu), it avoids the ′methodological nationalism′ so frequent in social science publications on the region. The a...