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The paper discusses various theories of ethnic (also national and linguistic) and religious identity and examines on comparative basis whether and how these theories find their confirmation / refutation in South and Central Asian realities
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Author's findings prove that the reality of identity manifestation both may and may not coincide with various identity theories. Such an analysis of the wide complex of identities performed on the basis of comparison of South and Central Asian realities is made for the first time in published papers
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Author hopes that this paper will be useful in terms of better understanding of realities (not only those related to identity) in the countries of South and Central Asia, primarily in India and Kazakhstan. This should help to awoid in future many mistakes and shortcomings regarding these states which are not rare in present
Yelena Rudenko
R.B. Suleimenov Institute of Oriental Studies
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This page is a summary of: The Theory and Practice of Identities: South vs. Central Asia (with special emphasis upon India and Kazakhstan), India Quarterly A Journal of International Affairs, October 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0974928417731644.
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