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Author: Nameirakpam Bijen Meetei
ISBN: 978-81-933788-6-1
Language: English
Year of Publication: 2017
Edition: 1
About the book:
Since its emergence in the late 1970s
and early 1980s in the Anglo-American world, multiculturalism has been
explained and conceptualized in a variety of ways. It is also increasingly
accepted as a way of fostering the essence of democracy. This is true not only
for the western democracies but also for newly independent countries in the
Asian or African world which opted for a democratic system of governance. Therefore,
as it is being increasingly accepted there is an increasing need for judging it
for there are many contexts in which institutional models created on the basis
of existing theories are blindly applied without understanding contextual
differences. Most of these earlier theories of multiculturalism were concerned,
more or less, with the western liberal socio-political environments. In other
words, the earlier works or theories of multiculturalism have been developed in
the context of western democratic society with few exceptions. They try to
explain the importance of diversity, the issue of discrimination of minority
communities, or the problems arising out of non-recognition of cultural values
in larger societies. Considering
these facts, the current work attempts to study issues surrounding the existing
theories of multiculturalism and its implications in terms of adequately accommodating
minorities in non-western context. And, when one thinks about a non-western
context which presents complex issues of ethnicity and accommodating diverse
communities the case of Manipur comes up straight off. Hence, the book focuses on
issues of diversity, and complexities of minority accommodation in Manipur
where a complex dynamics of ethnic relationship makes it difficult to adopt
existing theoretical and institutional models of multiculturalism.
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