The Dynamics of Conflict and Peace in Contemporary South Asia

Minoru Mio is a professor and the director of the Department of Globalization and Humanities at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan. He is one of the series editors of the Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies and has co-edited Cities in South Asia (with Crispin Bates, 2015), Human and International Security in India (with Crispin Bates and Akio Tanabe, 2015) and Rethinking Social Exclusion in India (with Abhijit Dasgupta, 2017), also published by Routledge. Kazuya Nakamizo is a professor in the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. He is the author of Violence and Democracy: The Collapse of One-Party Dominant Rule in India (2020). Tatsuro Fujikura is a professor in the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, and the director of the Center for South Asian Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. He is the author of Discourses of Awareness: Development, Social Movements and the Practices of Freedom in Nepal (2013).

Introduction Part I Democracy, State and Religion 1. Democracy and Vigilantism in India: Spread of Gau Rakshaks 2. Creating Majoritarian Democracy: Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2017 Legislative Assembly Election in Uttar Pradesh 3. Practicing the Right to Indifference: Secularism, Toleration, and Islamophobia in Indian and American National Subjectivities 4. State and Violence in Burma/Myanmar: The Rohingya Crisis and its Implication for South and Southeast Asia Part II Democratization and Social Movements 5. Manifestation of Dalit Rights, Justice and Dalit-ness in the Post-Mandal Era 6. Homogenization of Social Movement Dynamics under a "Clever" Nepali State, 2007-2012 7. Abul Sattar Edhi: The Modern Incarnation of a Pacifist Sufi 8. Movements of flats and citizens: Notes on spatial politics in Mumbai Part III How does a conflict end? 9. Life beyond the paradox: peace, ethnic conflict, and everyday realities of Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh 10. Communities and Mediation in Post-conflict Nepal 11. Maps, Migration, Melancholia