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This Book Examines How Identities Are Formed And Expressed In Political, Social And Cultural Contexts Across South Asia. It Is A Comprehensive Intervention On How, Why And What Identities Have Come To Be, And Takes A Closer Look At The Complexities Of Their Interactions. Drawing On An Interdisciplinary Approach, Combining Methodologies From History, Literary Studies, Politics, And Sociology, This Book: - Explores The Multiple Ways In Which Personal And Collective Identities Manifest And Engage, Are Challenged And Resisted Across Time And Space.; - Highlights How The Shared History Of Colonialism And Partition, Communal Violence, Bloodshed And Pogrom Are Instrumental In Understanding Present-day Developments In Identity Politics.; - Sheds Light On A Number Of Current Themes Such As Borders And Nations, Race And Ethnicity, Identity Politics And Fundamentalism, Language And Regionalism, Memory And Community, And Resistance And Assertion. A Key Volume In South Asian Studies, This Book Will Be Of Great Interest To Scholars And Researchers Of Modern South Asian History, Politics, Sociology, Literary Studies And Social Exclusion-- Introduction / Vivek Sachdeva, Queeny Pradhan, Anu Venugopalan -- Identity Assertions And The Context Of Conflicts In South Asia / T.k. Oommen -- Constitution And Conflict: Mono-ethnic Federalism In A Poly-ethnic Nepal / Mahendra Lawoti -- Literature As Cosmopolitics: Beyond Nations, Borders And Identities / Simi Malhotra -- Ideology As Identity: Progressivism Of Punjabi Poetry Of 1970s And After / Akshyaya Kumar -- Flying High Or Lying Low? The Moral Economy Of Young Women In Higher Education In Punjab, India / Navtej K. Purewal And Manpreet K. Gill -- Dalit Assertion And Different Shades Of Movements Defining Dalits: From Accorded Nomenclature To Asserted One / Vivek Kumar -- The Question Of Loyalty: Minorities And South Asian Nationalisms / Tanweer Fazal -- Adivasi Struggles In Chhattisgarh: Jal, Jungle, Zameen / Sudha Bharadwaj -- Was B