India-South Asia Interface

Religion, Politics and the Wider World

Partha S. Ghosh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781000537284
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Regional Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

India-South Asia Interface raises the fundamental question: How does one make sense of South Asia? Conventional wisdom defines it primarily in terms of regional and international politics. The failures of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) are emblematic of that wisdom. Marking a departure from such approaches, Partha Ghosh makes the case that more than merely a political construct South Asia must be understood as a shared social consciousness. Through chapters that explore topics such as threats to democracy, religion and politics, the place of Kashmir, different conceptions of regionalism, the roles of America and China, and the issue of refugees and migrants, he demonstrates that there is no escape from reinventing the region from a people's perspective. Only this way can South Asia retrieve its soul and replace its cynicism and despair with expectation and hope.
Based primarily on Ghosh's research articles and newspaper columns written over the last five years, the volume can be viewed as an intimate statement of his understanding of the region; an understanding that has matured through decades-long interactions with the region's academics, politicians, and the so-called 'man on the street'. In some sense, the volume is also a semi-autobiographical treatise, which spells out Ghosh's systematic evolution as a confirmed South Asianist. The region's destiny ought to be wrested, he therefore argues, from the hands of its political leaders and returned to the common men and women of the region.

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Index

• A Suitable Boy 71
• Aabid, Malik 85
• Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) 37, 84
• Abbottabad 74
• Abdullah, Abdullah 176
• Abdullah, Omar 83
• Abdullah, Sheikh 17, 82, 118
• Acheson, Dean 13, 148
• Adityanath 171
• Advani, L.K. 92
• Afghanistan 11, 18, 20, 47, 78, 94, 104, 193
• Ahmed, Akbar 123
• Ahmediya 103
• Ahuja, Gope 220
• AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen) 70
• Akhand Bharat 116
• Aksai Chin 137, 215
• Al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr 167
• Alexander 12, 160
• All Assam Students Union (AASU) 100
• Allah 35
• Almond, Gabriel 218, 220
• Al-Qaeda 78, 123, 168, 176
• Ambedkar, B.R. 67
• America 12, 13, 14, 15, 23, 59, 63, 64, 122
• American Brahman Breeders
• Association (ABBA) 173
• Ampara 47
• Anantnag 77
• Andersen, Walter 111
• Andreas, Peter 31
• Anglo-Indian 40
• Apang, Gegong 92
• Arab Spring 111
• Ardern, Jacinda 120
• Area Studies 16, 20, 23–4, 144, 197, 199–203
• Article 35A 77, 81
• Article 370 77, 81, 82, 83, 88, 105, 116, 118
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) 140, 147
• Arunachal Pradesh 92, 103, 104, 137, 141, 142, 186
• Arya Samaj 54
• Asian Relations Conference 201
• Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) 105
• Assam 92, 94, 99, 105, 107, 117, 127, 187
• Awami League 35
• AYUSH 21, 30–1
• Aztecs 61
• Babri mosque 91, 96
• Babur,...