Contents Foreword Acknowledgements Note on the South Asia Collective Note on Contributors Abbreviations and Acronyms vii xi xiii xv xix Introduction xxiii Chapter 1 Religious Minorities in Afghanistan: The Victims of Negligence Chapter 2 The State of Statelessness in Bangladesh: An Overview Chapter 3 Migrants, Refugees and the Stateless in India: Deploying Citizenship to Redefine the Secular State 1 15 32 Chapter 4 Living in Limbo: Tibetan and Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal 65 Chapter 5 Pakistan: The Struggle for Equal Citizenship 91 Chapter 6 Sri Lanka: Discrimination Against Religious Minorities and Its Impact on Inclusion in a Plural Society Chapter 7 State of Minorities in South Asia, 2019 110 138