- In “Partition of Punjab: How a Secularist Province Developed Communal Consciousness” (SSRN, August 9, 2021), Eshwar Venkataswamy (Philips Academy) discusses how Punjab, a peaceful region where inter-communal relations between Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs were relatively peaceful, deteriorated in recent years, with a focus on religious sectarianism.
- In “The Predatory State and Coercive Assimilation: The Case of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang” (SSRN, July 1, 2021) Greg Caskey (George Mason University) and Ilia Murtazashvili (University of Pittsburgh) discuss and describe the “violent assimilationist policies” targeted at China’s Muslim minority, the Uyghurs.