The political salience of language and religion: patterns of ethnic mobilization among Uyghurs in Xinjiang and Sikhs in Punjab

This article examines the reasons why the politicization of language has not been translated into disruptive forms of ethnic mobilization as opposed to the political salience of religions among the Uyghurs in Xinjiang throughout the 1990s and the Sikhs before and after the creation of Punjab in 1966...

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Main Author: Reny, Marie-Eve (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2009
In: Ethnic and racial studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 32, Issue: 3, Pages: 490-521
Further subjects:B Uighur
B Minority group policy
B China
B Religion
B Language policy
B Theory formation
B Ethnic group
B India