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A-SYNCHRONOUS TUTORIAL DISCUSSION FORUM

A-SYNCHRONOUS TUTORIAL DISCUSSION FORUM

WEEK 1 HOUSEKEEPING & INTRODUCTION

Seminar Discussion &amp; Readings

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, London: Verso, 1983) 1-7, 163-185

Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton, 1993), 3-13

Handout (Nepal Sri Lanka - Order) 1

colonial state outline

colonial state

Lectures Slides Week 1

SABI Week I Lecture

WEEK 2 The Emergence of Modern South Asia

Katherine Adeney, 2015, ‘How to Understand Pakistan’s Hybrid Regime: The Importance of a Multidimensional Continuum’, Democratization, 1-22.

Sriskandarajah, Dhanajayan: "Fuelling the Ire: Inequality and Conflict in Late-Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka", pp. 1-25

https://www.c-r.org/accord/sri-lanka

The People's War

Shandana Khan Mohmand, “Local Government Reforms in Pakistan: Strengthening Social Capital or Rolling Back the State?”

Mahendra Lawoti, 2007, “Contentious Politics in Democratizing Nepal,” in Contentious Politics and Democratization in Nepal, M. Lawoti, ed, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. pp. 17-42.

James Sharrock, 2013, ‘Stability in Transition: Development Perspectives and Local Politics in Nepal,’ EBHR 42, pp. 9-38.

Benedict Anderson (1983) Imagined Communities

Nation

Lecture Slides for Week 2

Tutorial Notes for Week 2

Introduction A Country of Her Making

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WEEK 3: Insurgency and Conflict

From War to Peace The Nepalese Maoists s Strategic and Ideological Thinking-2

Politics and Threat Perception Explaining Pakistani Military Strategy on the North West Frontier

WEEK 4: Case Study - The Civil War in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Neil DeVotta, ‘From Ethnic Outbidding to Ethnic Conflict: The Institutional Bases for Sri Lanka's Separatist War’, Nations and Nationalism, 11:1 (2005), 141-59.

Tambiah, B. S. J.: "Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics and Violence in Sri Lanka", pp. 102-128

Varshney, Ashutosh: "Classes, like Ethnic Groups, Are Imagined Communities: A Response to Rao", p. 1737-1741

Ahmed, Akbra S: "Hazarawal: Formation and Structure of District Ethnicity", pp. 28-46

Yunus Samad (2014) Understanding the insurgency in Balochistan

Sheikh, Farzana: "Muslims and Political Representation in Colonial India: The Making of Pakistan", pp. 81-100

Katharine Adeney, 2015, ‘A Move to Majoritarian Nationalism? Challenges of Representation in South Asia’, Representation, 1-15.

Scott, David: "Community, Number and the Ethos of Democracy", pp. 158-189 File

Lecture Slides Week 4

Party system lecture

party system

Lecture Slides Week 4

Tutorial Notes Week 4

Rubinah presentation

Link to Alaya's slides

WEEK 5: Regional Integration and International Organisations

Pratap Bhanu Mehta, âSAARC and the Sovereignty Bargainâ, pp. 17-21, Himal Southasian, Nov-Dec, 2005.

P.V. Rao, âSouth Asiaâs retarded regionalismâ

Week 6: Constitutionalism and Patronage Politics

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Class Clientelism and Communalism in Bangladesh

Ahmed, Emajuddin: "The Military and Democracy in Bangladesh", pp.101-118

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Week 7: Religion, Society and Politics

Sheikh, Farzana: "Muslims and Political Representation in Colonial India: The Making of Pakistan", pp. 81-100

Barbara Metcalf, ‘‘Traditionalist’ Islamic Activism: Deoband, Tabligh, and Talib’ (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2002)

Vali Nasr, ‘International Relations of an Islamist Movement: The Case of the Jama’at-i Islami of Pakistan’ (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2000)

Mohammad Qasim Zaman, ‘Sectarianism in Pakistan: The Radicalisation of Shia and Sunni Identities,’ Modern Asian Studies 32:3 (1998), 689-716

Hacchethu, Krishna: "Ethnicity and Inclusion", pp. 73-90

Sagnik Dutta, 2014, ‘From Accommodation to Substantive Equality: Muslim Personal Law, Secular Law, and the Indian Constitution 1985-2015'

Basu, Amrita: "Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women's Activism in India", pp. 3-24

Armed masculinity Hindu nationalism and female political participation in India Banerjee 2006

Basu, Amrita: "The Success of India's Democracy", Ch. 7: "The Dialectics of Hindu Nationalism"

Galenter, Marc: "Competing Equalities: Law and the Backward Classes", Ch. 16 "The Little Done, the Vast Undone"

Seira Tamang. 2009. ‘The Politics of Conflict and Difference or the Difference of Conflict in Politics: The Women’s Movement in Nepal’, Feminist Review 92, pp. 61-80.

Michelutti and Heath

Seminar Discussion & Readings

ZOOM RECORDING OF INSURGENCY & COUNTERINSURGENCY LECTURE

Boni, Filippo. ‘Civil-military relations in Pakistan: a case study of Sino-Pakistani relations and the port of Gwadar.’ Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 54:4 (2016), 498-517