A Move to Majoritarian Nationalism? Challenges of Representation in South Asia

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ID6378381
AuthorsKatharine Adeney (0000-0002-0897-9028, University of Nottingham, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume51
Issue1
Pages7-21
Publication date2015-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRepresentation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-4893 • E-ISSN: 1749-4001
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00344893.2015.1026213
OpenAlexW2020530327
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited24

Despite India’s status as the world’s largest democracy and increasing turnouts in many of the countries of South Asia, recent elections raise concerns about the threat to democracy in the form of majoritarianism. Many of the countries of South Asia are extremely diverse and (mainly) informal mechanisms of accommodation of minorities have been deployed. At the same time concerns about the threat to minority rights in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have been strongly articulated. It is notable that those countries of South Asia, such as Sri Lanka and Pakistan, which have not accommodated their non-dominant groups, have witnessed high levels of conflict. India has been more accommodative, of both linguistic and religious minorities. However, it is precisely this process of accommodation that many in India now worry will be undermined by Hindu majoritarianism

Accommodation · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Ethnology · Hindu nationalism · Hinduism · Human rights · Minority rights · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · South asia · Sri lanka · Law · Religious studies · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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