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A view from South Asia

Joshua Castellino and Elvira Dominguez-Redondo (Middlesex): The UN Declaration on Minorities and its Guidance: A View from South Asia. Amir Uprety (Muenster): Ethnic Identity Movements in Nepal: A Short Overview. Darius Lee (NUS): Here There Be Dragons! Buddhist Constitutionalism in the Hidden Land of Bhutan. Welcome to the traffic capital of the world: Michael Hobbes on what he learned from the crippling gridlock in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Zulfiqar Shah on sixty-seven years of Pakistan. Imran Khan warns Pakistan ministers his supporters could storm parliament. Kiran Nazish on how the Islamic State is spreading into Pakistan: Agents have crossed the border with propaganda to recruit new fighters. Is there any hope for India-Pakistan relations? Allison Berland and Michael Kugelman wonder. Vijay Kumar Kaul (Delhi): India's Diversity: From Conflict to Innovation; and India's Diversity and Globalisation: Unifying Forces and Innovation. Aniruddha Dutta (Iowa): Masculinities of Desire, Derision and Defiance: Global Gay Femmephobia and Kothi-Dhurani-Trans Heterosexualities. Jon P. Dorschner reviews Managing Conflicts in India: Policies of Coercion and Accommodation by Bidisha Biswas; and reviews Capitalism (A Ghost Story) by Arundhati Roy. Gandhi was a crank before he was a saint: Maya Jasanoff reviews Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha. The Last Gandhi: A single family has dominated Indian politics since independence — one man’s incompetence is about to bring it all to an end. Tyler Cowen on lesson from old India: When an economy just doesn’t get better. Bryce Cover on why India is giving every household a bank account. Sonal S. Pandya on why foreign investment still polarizes India. As Modi takes Manhattan, here’s how the U.S. economy is increasingly tied to India.