Genocides and xenophobia in South Asia and beyond [electronic resource] : a transdisciplinary perspective on known, lesser-known and unknown crime of crimes / edited by Rituparna Bhattacharyya.

"This volume foregrounds some of the unknown or lesser-known incidents of xenophobia and genocide from India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and Rwanda. It critically analyses the cultural and structural contexts triggering these various forms of genocides and xenophobia, and situates them wit...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bhattacharyya, Rituparna (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2023.
Subjects:
Xenophobia > South Asia.
Minorities > Crimes against > South Asia.
Genocide > South Asia.
South Asia > Ethnic relations.
Online Access:
Taylor & Francis Complete 2023 eBooks: 2023 (Taylor & Francis eBooks)
Taylor & Francis eBooks (Complete Collection): 2023 (Taylor & Francis eBooks)
Variant Title:
Genocides and Xenophobia in South Asia and Beyond: A Transdisciplinary Perspective on Known, Lesser-known and Unknown Crime of Crimes
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Understanding xenophobia and genocide / Rituparna Bhattacharyya
  • Nationalisms on(the)line : new media and the fanning of fear and xenophobia / Aparajita De & Vivek Tripathi
  • The alchemy of a sectarian riot : New Delhi, 2020 / Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta
  • Genocide of Kashmiri Pandits / Kulbhushan Warikoo
  • Narratives, violence and consent : the normalisation of state violence in Jammu & Kashmir / Devika Mittal
  • Communal riot, pogrom, or genocide? Framing and naming the anti-Sikh violence of 1984 / Silvia Tieri
  • Is Assam under the grip of a silent genocide? / Rituparna Bhattacharyya & Pranjit Sarma
  • 'Recovering violent pasts' : revisiting moments of xenophobic violence and uprooting from partitioned North-east India / Binayak Dutta
  • Genocide in Sylhet during the Liberation War of Bangladesh / Tulshi Kumar Das & Mohammad Jahirul Hoque
  • Ethnic violence in Sri Lanka : politics of Sinhala-Tamil tensions / Roshni Kapur & Amit Ranjan
  • Xenophobia in South Africa - Can this morph into genocide? / Brij Maharaj & Steven Gordon
  • 1994 Rwanda Holocaust : a critical analysis of xenophobia mutating to genocide against the Tutsis / Rituparna Bhattacharyya, Venkat Rao Pulla , Charles Kalinganire & Gaspard Rwanyiziri.