2014/2: Volume 6, Issue 2: Special Issue: Textbooks, Identity Politics and Conflict Lines in South Asia

Abstract

Introduction: Textbooks, Identity Politics and Conflict Lines in South Asia – Muhammad Ayaz Naseem and Georg Stöber; Deconstructing Militarism in Pakistani Textbooks – M. Ayaz Naseem; Identity, Politics and Nation-building in History Textbooks in Bangladesh – Shreya Ghosh; Living in Harmony? “Casteism”, Communalism and Regionalism in Indian Social Science Textbooks – Basabi Khan Banerjee and Georg Stöber; Where are the Minorities? The Elusiveness of Multiculturalism and Positive Recognition in Sri Lankan History Textbooks – Anne Gaul