Secular quests, national others: revisiting Bangladesh's constituent assembly debates
How do we understand the 15th amendment of the Bangladeshi Constitution that restored the principle of secularism and simultaneously (re)inscribed certain populations as outside the cultural nation? I approach this question through a close reading of the Constituent Assembly debates of 1972. The pre...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Royal Society for Asian Affairs
2018
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Asian affairs
Year: 2018, Volume: 49, Issue: 2, Pages: 238-258 |
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B Religious identity B Bangladesh B Constitutional convention B Minority B Cause B Religion B Politics B Population group B Constitution |
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| Summary: | How do we understand the 15th amendment of the Bangladeshi Constitution that restored the principle of secularism and simultaneously (re)inscribed certain populations as outside the cultural nation? I approach this question through a close reading of the Constituent Assembly debates of 1972. The precarious state of minorities, I contend, is not a symptom of an incomplete or failed secularism but a feature of the violence inherent to the nation-state form. The Bangladeshi example suggests not only that minority is a profoundly unstable category but that some minorities are visibly critical to national self-fashioning while others must be invisibilized as national others. (Asian Aff/GIGA) |
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| Item Description: | Teil eines Special Issue: Ghosts from the past? Assessing recent developments in religious freedom in South Asia |
| ISSN: | 1477-1500 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Asian affairs
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2018.1470793 |