The state of democracy in South Asia

2018 ◽  
pp. 40-60
Author(s):  
Maya Chadda
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
The State

The Baluch, Sunnism and the State in Iran

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane A. Dudoignon
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The State ◽  
First Century ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Oasis Area ◽  
Shed Light

Since 2002, Sunni jihadi groups have been active in Iranian Baluchistan without managing to plunge the region into chaos. This book suggests that a reason for this, besides Tehran’s military responses, has been the quality of Khomeini and Khamenei’s relationship with a network of South-Asia-educated Sunni ulama (mawlawis) originating from the Sarbaz oasis area, in the south of Baluchistan. Educated in the religiously reformist, socially conservative South Asian Deoband School, which puts the madrasa at the centre of social life, the Sarbazi ulama had taken advantage, in Iranian territory, of the eclipse of Baluch tribal might under the Pahlavi monarchy (1925-79). They emerged then as a bulwark against Soviet influence and progressive ideologies, before rallying to Khomeini in 1979. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, they have been playing the role of a rampart against Salafi propaganda and Saudi intrigues. The book shows that, through their alliance with an Iranian Kurdish-born Muslim-Brother movement and through the promotion of a distinct ‘Sunni vote’, they have since the early 2000s contributed towards – and benefitted from – the defence by the Reformist presidents Khatami (1997-2005) and Ruhani (since 2013) of local democracy and of the minorities’ rights. They endeavoured to help, at the same time, preventing the propagation of jihadism and Sunni radicalisation to Iran – at least until the ISIS/Daesh-claimed attacks of June 2017, in Tehran, shed light on the limits of the Islamic Republic’s strategy of reliance on Deobandi ulama and Muslim-Brother preachers in the country’s Sunni-peopled peripheries.

Anthropology, Politics and the State: Democracy and Violence in South Asia by Jonathan Spencer

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-556
Author(s):  
ANDREW SANCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
The State

Territoriality, Sovereignty, and the State

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-45
Author(s):  
Shibashis Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Working Out

The chapter explains the chosen conceptual categories, clarifies the tropes of their deployment, and stitches together the two dual narratives of India’s domestic and external imaginations. The author goes on to show that India’s transforming models of nation building have evolved within the framework of sovereign territoriality. He also makes the argument that while the domestic/international divide is inappropriate to make sense of India’s negotiations in South Asia, it is equally facile to see the region as an extension of India’s domestic contests. This chapter shows how India has framed its project and negotiated with others in its neighbourhood. However, the fact that the lines of peoplehood and territorial nationalism never coincided in South Asia meant that there will always be tension in working out national projects predicated upon sovereignty. These states embarked on different projects of difference that were crucial to the making of modern South Asia.

The State of Play in South Asia

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-56
Author(s):  
Sanjay Kathuria ◽  
Ravindra A. Yatawara ◽  
Xiao’ou Zhu
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
The State

scholarly journals The Corruption Game: Health Systems, International Agencies, and the State in South Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-285
Author(s):  
Svea Closser
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
The State ◽  
International Agencies

Anthropology, Politics, and the State: Democracy and Violence in South Asia by Jonathan Spencer

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 394-395
Author(s):  
SUSAN DEWEY
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
The State

Association between Governance and Human Development in South Asia

2016 ◽  
pp. 254-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arindam Laha
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Human Development ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The State ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Sustainable Human Development ◽  
Catalytic Role

Good governance could play a catalytic role in creating an enabling working environment where the dream of sustainable human development can be fulfilled, whereas poor governance could erode individual capabilities to meet even the basic needs of sustenance for vulnerable sections of the population. Under this backdrop, this study attempts to explore empirically the association between the governance and human development in the context of South Asian countries. Broadly, a converging trend of both the indices of governance and human development across South Asian countries is noticeable with the passage of time. Moreover, substantial empirical evidences suggest that the state of governance and that of level of human development are positively correlated in the sense that countries having a better functioning of governance system are also the countries with relatively high levels of human development.

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