Focusing on the group labelled `Indians′ in Melaka, Malaysia, this book discusses the social, cultural and linguistic diversity in the context of perceived need to create a basis for collective identity and action in an ethnically plural polity. David James Mearns argues that the very richness of Hinduism means that a cultural and cosmological repertoire of wide proportions is available to unite and divide the population.
- ISBN10 0803992491
- ISBN13 9780803992498
- Publish Date 4 October 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 October 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 304
- Language English