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Sons of the Soil : Migration and Ethnic Conflict in India / Myron Weiner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1682Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1978Description: 1 online resource (404 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691613918
  • 9781400871711
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.3260954 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- One. Introduction -- Two. Migration and the Growth of Ethnic Diversity -- Three. When Migrants Succeed and Natives Fail: Assam and Its Migrants -- Four. Tribal Encounters: Tribals and Migrants in Chota Nagpur, Bihar -- Five. Middle-Class Protectionism: Mulkis Against Migrants in Hyderabad -- Six. Migration and the Rise of Nativism -- Seven. Who is Local? Territorial versus Ethnic Identities -- Eight. Citizenship and Internal Migration Laws -- Nine. Conclusion: Trends and Consequences -- Index -- Backmatter
Summary: Myron Weiner's study of the relationship between internal migration and ethnic conflict in India is exceptional for two reasons: it focuses on intercultural and interstate migration throughout the nation, rather than on merely local or provincial phenomena, and it examines both the social and the political consequences of India's interethnic migrations.Professor Weiner examines selected regions of India in which migrants dominate the modern sector of the economy. He describes the forces that lead individual Indian citizens to move from one linguistic-cultural region to another in search of better opportunities, and he attempts to explain their emergence at the top of the occupational hierarchy. In addition, the author provides an account of the ways in which the indigenous ethnic groups ("sons of the soil") attempt to use political power to overcome their fears of economic defeat and cultural subordination by the more enterprising, more highly skilled, better educated migrants.In addressing the fundamental clash between the migrants' claims to equal access to their country and the claims of the local groups to equal treatment and protection by the state, Professor Weiner considers some of the ways in which government policy makers might achieve greater equality among ethnic groups without simultaneously restricting the spatial and social mobility of some of its own people.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Tables -- One. Introduction -- Two. Migration and the Growth of Ethnic Diversity -- Three. When Migrants Succeed and Natives Fail: Assam and Its Migrants -- Four. Tribal Encounters: Tribals and Migrants in Chota Nagpur, Bihar -- Five. Middle-Class Protectionism: Mulkis Against Migrants in Hyderabad -- Six. Migration and the Rise of Nativism -- Seven. Who is Local? Territorial versus Ethnic Identities -- Eight. Citizenship and Internal Migration Laws -- Nine. Conclusion: Trends and Consequences -- Index -- Backmatter

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Myron Weiner's study of the relationship between internal migration and ethnic conflict in India is exceptional for two reasons: it focuses on intercultural and interstate migration throughout the nation, rather than on merely local or provincial phenomena, and it examines both the social and the political consequences of India's interethnic migrations.Professor Weiner examines selected regions of India in which migrants dominate the modern sector of the economy. He describes the forces that lead individual Indian citizens to move from one linguistic-cultural region to another in search of better opportunities, and he attempts to explain their emergence at the top of the occupational hierarchy. In addition, the author provides an account of the ways in which the indigenous ethnic groups ("sons of the soil") attempt to use political power to overcome their fears of economic defeat and cultural subordination by the more enterprising, more highly skilled, better educated migrants.In addressing the fundamental clash between the migrants' claims to equal access to their country and the claims of the local groups to equal treatment and protection by the state, Professor Weiner considers some of the ways in which government policy makers might achieve greater equality among ethnic groups without simultaneously restricting the spatial and social mobility of some of its own people.Originally published in 1978.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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