Issue 7 – January 2013 – South Asia Journal

The Rohingya Refugee Crisis of 2012: Asserting the Need for Constructive Regional & International Engagement 0
- Issue 7 - January 2013
- March 21, 2013
Introduction On the 10th of June 2012, more than 500 members of the Rohingya community, a historically persecuted ethnic group originating from the Rakhine State in Western Myanmar crossed the Naf River into Southeast Bangladesh to seek refugee from large scale sectarian strife that was originally identified as an ethnic conflict between the minority Rohingyas
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The Constitutional Basis of Authoritarianism in Sri Lanka 0
- Issue 7 - January 2013, Issues
- January 22, 2013
Sri Lanka has had three constitutions since it achieved independence from Britain, and each has contributed in different ways to the erosion of the relatively liberal political system that once characterized the island’s government. Following the promulgation of the second republican constitution of 1978, Sri Lanka has developed into a constitutionally based authoritarian state. In
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Democracy in Bangladesh: A Report Card 0
- Issue 7 - January 2013, Issues
- January 22, 2013
Bangladesh returned to electoral democracy in January 2009 after two years under a military ‘caretaker’ government. An alliance led by the Awami League (AL) secured a landslide victory in freely conducted election held in late 2008 under the auspices of the caretaker system. There were hopes that the political crisis which had necessitated a military-backed
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Tanham in Retrospect: 18 Years of Evolution in Indian Strategic Culture 0
- Issue 7 - January 2013, Issues
- January 22, 2013
In 1992, RAND published an interpretive essay by Dr. George Tanham[1], an American defense analyst, on the historicaland cultural factors that have shaped India’s strategic thinking. The essay is important because it highlighted and reinforced particular sensitive criticisms which continue to form the basis of significant Indian self-examination and self-justification. This paper reviews Tanham’s major
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Western Composers’ Love for Tagore 0
- Issue 7 - January 2013, Issues
- January 22, 2013
The year 2011 was the sesquicentennial of the birth of India’s distinguished polymath and Nobel Prize-winning poet Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). The occasion was celebrated with great éclat not only in India and Bangladesh, but in cities and countries throughout the world where there are enclaves, large and small, of expatriate South Asians, especially Bengalis, and
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A Presidential Power Struggle in Maldives 0
- Issue 7 - January 2013, Issues
- January 22, 2013
November in the Maldives marks the beginning of the tourism high season for which the chain of nearly 1200 islands in the Indian Ocean has become internationally renowned. As hordes of tourists arrive at Ibrahim Nasir International Airport – named after the country’s first president – its first democratically elected President, Mohamed Nasheed, will stand
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Issue 7 – January 2013