Sons of the Soil: Migration and Ethnic Conflict in India

Myron Weiner

Published by Princeton University Press 1978

Sons of the Soil

Migration and Ethnic Conflict in India

Myron Weiner

Volume 1682 in the series Princeton Legacy Library

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400871711

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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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
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One. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Two. Migration and the Growth of Ethnic Diversity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Three. When Migrants Succeed and Natives Fail: Assam and Its Migrants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Four. Tribal Encounters: Tribals and Migrants in Chota Nagpur, Bihar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Five. Middle-Class Protectionism: Mulkis Against Migrants in Hyderabad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Six. Migration and the Rise of Nativism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Seven. Who is Local? Territorial versus Ethnic Identities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Eight. Citizenship and Internal Migration Laws Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
Nine. Conclusion: Trends and Consequences Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
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