The Post-Colonial States of South Asia

Political and Constitutional Problems

Amita Shastri, A. Jeyaratnam Wilson (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

376 Seiten

2001
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-7007-1292-2 (ISBN)

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This text discusses the principal political and constitutional questions that have arisen in the states of Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka following fifty years of independence. In Sri Lanka the pressing problems have been around the inter-ethnic civil war, experiments with constitutional designs, widespread prevalence of corruption and the recrudescence of Buddhist militancy. In India it has been corruption, Hindu nationalism and general political instability. In Bangladesh and Pakistan it has been the role of the military, the state and religion. A general theme is an analysis of the malaise that is prevalent and how and why this was inherited, despite the colonial legacy of parliamentary democracy, the steel framework of a trained bureaucracy, the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law.

Amita Shastri, A. Jeyaratnam Wilson

Acknowledgments, List of Contributors, Introduction The Post-Colonial States of South Asia: Democracy, Identity, Development and Security, PART I DEMOCRACY, PART II IDENTITY, PART III DEVELOPMENT, PART IV SECURITY, Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.7.2001
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	860 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-7007-1292-5 / 0700712925
ISBN-13	978-0-7007-1292-2 / 9780700712922
Zustand	Neuware