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Presidential Address: Reflections on Communal Violence in South Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Stanley J. Tambiah
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Ethnic conflict is said to be rampant today. To all those instances familiar to us from the recent past, we may add the latest explosions in Southern Russia, in Eastern Europe, and in India's Kashmir.

A great deal has been written on the historical antecedents of ethnic conflicts, and on the political, religious, economic, and social circumstances in which many of them have broken out. These accounts include the effects of global processes that stem from metropolitan centers upon satellite countries, the assumptions and the problems of nation-making, and the politics of ethnic and other group entitlement claims in plural societies.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , November 1990 , pp. 741 - 760
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990

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