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06/01/2008. South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal :: 2007--Current issue.

Christopher Candland, Labor, Democratization and Development in India and Pakistan This book, by Christopher Candland, sets out to provide a documented analytical and empirical study of the linkages between organized labor, development, and democratization in India and Pakistan from the colonial period till date. It attempts to explain why sustained economic growth has not led to a significant diminution of ... (...more...)
Questioning the Role of the Indian Administrative Service in National Integration After Independence, the Indian Administrative Service was expected to promote national integration, from a social as well as a spatial point of view. Yet, despite the reservation policy, this elite body lacks representativeness. The partisanship of IAS officers along caste, religious and ethnic lines has further reduced their efficiency as ... (...more...)
Call for Papers: Outraged Communities': Investigating the Politicization of Emotions in South Asia The special issue's coordinators are: Amélie Blom (GRASP-Group for Research on the Anthropology, Sociology & Politics of Pakistan, Lahore) and Nicolas Jaoul (CEIAS-Centre for Studies on India and South Asia, Paris). Propositions should state what empirical material will be used and the paper's contribution to the theoretical questions raised by ... (...more...)
Introduction. Migration and Constructions of the Other: Inter-Communal Relationships amongst South Asian Diasporas Since Independence in 1947 and the creation of two separate nation-states, the Indian Subcontinent has regularly witnessed ethnic violence (several wars of varying intensity opposing India to Pakistan in 1948, 1965, 1971, 1999), partitions (1947 and 1971), bloody riots, in which different communities have been confronting each other along various ... (...more...)
Working for India or against Islam? Islamophobia in Indian American Lobbies In the past few years, the Indian American community has gained an unprecedented visibility in the international arena. It is indeed often projected as a model community and now constitutes growing and influential ethnic lobbies in Washington. But, in the face of its sheer division, Islamophobia did provide a unifying ... (...more...)
Putting Factions 'Back in' the Civil-Military Relations Equation: Genesis, Maturation and Distortion of the Bangladeshi Army This paper attempts to highlight two characteristics of the Bangladeshi army, namely factionalism and politicization. It shows how they hampered the institutionalization of civil-military relations in this country, and also suggests that the political power's manoeuvres aggravated the army's structural instability born of the Independence war. While arguing that the ... (...more...)
The Volatility of the `Other': Identity Formation and Social Interaction in Diasporic Environments The construction of an `other' and the confrontation with this intimate enemy lies at the heart of identity politics. In diasporic environments, these constructions of the `other' have two major attributes: their multiplicity and their volatility. Ethnic entrepreneurs have a wide range of options to propose an `enemy' to their ... (...more...)
Kabul at War (1992-1996) : State, Ethnicity and Social Classes Kabul witnessed especially violent fights during the 1992-95 period. This article explains how, after the destruction of the state in 1992 following the fall of the communist regime, the city became a theatre of conflict between various armed groups. Contrary to popular opinion, the conflict in Kabul was not the ... (...more...)
The Paradox of Religion: The (re)Construction of Hindu and Muslim Identities amongst South Asian Diasporas in the United States In the process of (re)constructing their identities in an alien society, South Asians have tended to give to religion a significant importance. This salience of religion owes as much to the dislocation and the stigmatization engendered by the migration experience as to the local context, the United States, who, while ... (...more...)
Frères ennemis ? Relations between Panjabi Sikhs and Muslims in the Diaspora This paper focuses on Sikh representations of the Muslims and the relationships between those two groups sharing a common regional identity, both in the Sub-continent and in the diaspora. It does so diachronically, arguing that historical constructions of the Muslim as the Other (often, but not always, as the enemy) ... (...more...)