The Hindu as Other: State, Law, and Land Relations in Contemporary Bangladesh
Constructing religious difference as a national security threat, the Vested Property Act, whose legacy dates from the period of East Pakistan, marks Bangladeshi Hindus as citizens whose allegiance to the country is always suspect. This paper explores the social production of Hindu difference through...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
2016-03-01
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| Series: | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4111 |