{"title":"The Idea of South Asia as a Region","authors":"B. Chakma","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1453kr3.6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explains the complexities of defining a region. ‘Region’ is a contested idea and there is no consensus among the scholars about it. This chapter illustrates the complexities of defining South Asia as a region and explains in what sense it should or should not be called a region.","PeriodicalId":405087,"journal":{"name":"South Asian Regionalism","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"South Asian Regionalism","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1453kr3.6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter explains the complexities of defining a region. ‘Region’ is a contested idea and there is no consensus among the scholars about it. This chapter illustrates the complexities of defining South Asia as a region and explains in what sense it should or should not be called a region.