From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
- 作者: Pankaj Mishra
- 出版社/メーカー: Allen Lane
- 発売日: 2012/08/02
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Pankaj Mishra From the Ruins of Empire*1からメモ；
It was never going to be easy for internally diverse societies like India and indonesia to find a social, political and cultural identity without violence and disorder. Europe itself took hundreds of years to develop and implement the concept of a sovereign nation-stte, only to then plunge into two world wars that exacted a terrible toll from ethnic and religious minorities. The Euripean model of the ethnically homogenous nation-state was a poor fit in Europe itself. That it was particularly so for multi-ehnic Asian societies bas been amply proved by the plight of Kashmiri Muslims, Tibetans, Uighurs, the Chinese in Malaysia, Sunnni Muslims in Iraq, Kurds in Turkey and Tamils in Sri Lanka.
The countries with restive minorities may seem to hold together. But they do so at great human cost which future generations will find too steep. Furthermore, the nation-state is fundamentally unable to deal on its own with such problems as climate change, environmental degradation and water scarcity, which spill across national borders. China's damming and proposed diversion of the rivers that originate in the Tibetan plateau threaten catastrophe in South and South-east Asia.(p.307)
ところで、印度のアッサムにおける分離主義について言及している*2。
