State and Nation in South Asia / / Swarna Rajagopalan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Rajagopalan, Swarna ,
• MitwirkendeR: Rajagopalan, Swarna,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (233 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1. National Integration as Community Building --; 2. State, Identity, and Ethnicity --; 3. State Intervention and Integrative Strategies --; 4. Building Communities out of States: Two Principles --; Acronyms --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781626375000; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781626375000
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Swarna Rajagopalan.

What makes a national community out of a state? Addressing this fundamental question, Rajagopalan studies national integration from the perspective of three South Asian communities—Tamilians in India, Sindhis in Pakistan, and Tamils in Sri Lanka—that have a history of secessionism in common, but with vastly different outcomes. Rajagopalan investigates why integration is relatively successful in some cases (Tamil Nadu), less so in others (Sindh), and disastrous in some (Sri Lanka). Broadly comparative and drawing together multiple aspects of political development and nation building, her imaginative exploration of the tension between state and nation gives voice to relatively disenfranchised sections of society.