| ID | 160067 |
| Title Proper | Secular quests, national others |
| Other Title Information | revisiting Bangladesh’s constituent assembly debates |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Siddiqi, Dina M |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | 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. |
| `In' analytical Note | Asian Affairs Vol. 49, No.2; Jun 2018: p.238-258 |
| Journal Source | Asian Affairs Vol: 49 No 2 |
| Key Words | Minorities ; Secularism ; Bangladesh ; Constitution ; Constituent Assembly ; 15Th Amendment |