The work sets the general, historical and social framework in which the Malagasy adventure of a “foreign minority” took place. This book will in fact be about a Sunni Muslim community in Madagascar (a minority compared to the Khodja Shiites), a Creole-speaking community of some six hundred people established for more than a hundred years in Tamatave, the country's first port, capital of the…
The interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and chinese communities in Asia and across the globe. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cutural and religious 'other', the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical bussiness networks and the operational machanisms unique to these communities. This volume explores mateia…
Exploring the gamut of issues involved in this complex problem, this book constitutes a comprehensive and in-depth study of federalism and devolution in the Sri Lankan context. The author leads us on a journey of discovery spanning various phases of the evolution of the problem, from pre-independence Sri Lanka to the victory of the Kumaratunga government in 1994, and its subsequent failure to i…
Concerns the history of Sri Lankan immigrants to Malaysia and Singapore. Much of the material for this history is based on interviews with members of the Sinhalese communities in Singapore and Malaysia. The Japanese occupation of Singapore is extensively covered
This book looks at the Rohingya in the South Asian region, primarily India and Bangladesh. It explores the broader picture of the historical and political dimensions of the Rohingya crisis, and examines subjects of statelessness, human rights and humanitarian protection of these victims of forced migration. Further, it chronicles the actual process of emergence of a stateless community, the tra…
Buku ini, yang diolah dari seri dialog di empat daerah selama setahun lalu, berusaha mengeksplorasi kemungkinan-kemungkinan tersebut, yang dipercayai akan mampu meretas horison-horison baru dalam sikap keberagamaan kita. Karena "To be religious today is to be inter-religious."
Presenting an analysis of basic information contained in the official Indonesian census conducted in the year 2000, this book focuses on Indonesian ethnicity and religion and their relevance to the study of politics.
The Atlas describes the legislation and impact of apartheid and the resistance, both local and international, to its racial policies. The integration of detailed maps and text reinforces the specifically spatial nature of apartheid, the way the map of South Africa was redrawn and continues to be redrawn
It is a story of history's relevance to the present and the future, which follows Cash's superb analogy that searching out the mind of a people is like visiting one of those churches one sees in England: the facade and towers, the windows and clerestory, the exterior and super- structure may be later Gothic of one sort or another, but look into its nave, its aisles, and its choir and you find t…
This content book: 1. Papua Ethnography 2. Names, Natural Feature & Environment Physical Characteristic and Population of Papua 3. The Eleven Local Cultures 4. Cultural Contact with the Outside world, etc.