Singh, Deepak K.

Stateless in South Asia : the Chakmas between Bangladesh and India / Deepak K. Singh. - Los Angeles : Bangalore : Sage ; New India Foundation, 2010. - xxiii, 289 p. : maps ; 23 cm. - Sage studies on India's north east . - Sage studies on India's north east. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chakma refugees: partition residues and development victims -- CHT and NEFA: from colonial outposts to postcolonial peripheries -- Politics of demographic (dis)order in Northeast India: the idiom of protest -- Chakma diaspora in Northeast India: excluded communities, fragmented identities -- Official discourses of the Chakma issue: centre versus state -- Chakmas' self-perceptions: understanding everyday lived experiences of refugees -- Arunachalis' self-perceptions: assertion and reconstruction of identity and ethnic nationalism -- The making of refugees in South Asia: nation, state and outsiders -- Interrogating India's refugee policy.

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Refugees--Bangladesh--Chittagong Hill Tracts (Region)
Refugees--India--Arunāchal Pradesh.
Chakma (Asian people)--Bangladesh--Chittagong Hill Tracts (Region)
Chakma (Asian people)--India--Arunāchal Pradesh.

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