The state of being stateless : an account of South Asia / edited by Paula Banerjee, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury, Atig Ghosh ; with a foreword by Ranabir Samaddar. - New Delhi : Orient BlackSwan, 2016 - xvii, 283 pages ; 23 cm

Contributed articles.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-273) and index.

Foreword / Ranabir Samaddar -- The Grid : The stateless and the citizen / Paula Banerjee, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury and Atig Ghosh -- Words of law, worlds of loss : the stateless people of the Indo-Bangladeshi enclaves / Atig Ghosh -- The remains of partition? : The citizenship question of stateless Hindus in India/Sahana Basavapatna -- Ordeal of citizenship : the up-country Tamils in Sri Lanka and India / Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury -- The Chinese of Calcutta : a case of statelessness / Suhit K. Sen -- The stateless Chakmas in Arunachal Pradesh / Samir Kumar Das and Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury -- Elusive home-thoughts : the unstable world of the Lhotsampas in South Asia / Atig Ghosh and Pravina Gurung -- Ambiguous identities : statelessness of Gorkhas in North-East India/Anup Shekhar Chakraborty and Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty.

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Statelessness--South Asia.
Citizenship--South Asia.
Stateless persons--South Asia.

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