Sons of the Soil: Migration and Ethnic Conflict in India

by Myron Weiner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691613915
• ISBN13: 9780691613918
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"