Foreword = 7
Roberta Cohen and Francis Deng
Acknowledgements = 11
Introduction
Paula Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Samir Kumar Das = 13
1. Afghanistan: The Long Way Home
Mossarat Qadeem = 30
2. Pakistan: Development and Disaster
Atta Ur Rehman Sheikh = 62
3. India: Homelessness at Home
Samir Kumar Das = 113
4. India's Northeast: Nobody's People in No-man's-land
Subir Bhaumik = 144
5. Bangladesh: Displaced and Dispossessed
Meghna Guhathakurta and Suraiya Begum = 175
6. Burma: Escape to Ordeal
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury = 213
7. Nepal: a Problem Unprepared for
Manesh Sreshtha and Bishnu Adhikari = 237
8. Sri Lanka: a Profile of Vulnerability
Joe William = 261
9. Resisting Erasure: Women Idps in South Asia
Paula Banerjee = 280
Epilogue: International Law on The Internally Displaced Persons
David Fisher = 316
Appendix: The Un Guiding Principles on The Internally Displaced Persons = 335
Notes on Editors and Contributors = 347
Index = 349
Roberta Cohen and Francis Deng
Acknowledgements = 11
Introduction
Paula Banerjee, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Samir Kumar Das = 13
1. Afghanistan: The Long Way Home
Mossarat Qadeem = 30
2. Pakistan: Development and Disaster
Atta Ur Rehman Sheikh = 62
3. India: Homelessness at Home
Samir Kumar Das = 113
4. India's Northeast: Nobody's People in No-man's-land
Subir Bhaumik = 144
5. Bangladesh: Displaced and Dispossessed
Meghna Guhathakurta and Suraiya Begum = 175
6. Burma: Escape to Ordeal
Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury = 213
7. Nepal: a Problem Unprepared for
Manesh Sreshtha and Bishnu Adhikari = 237
8. Sri Lanka: a Profile of Vulnerability
Joe William = 261
9. Resisting Erasure: Women Idps in South Asia
Paula Banerjee = 280
Epilogue: International Law on The Internally Displaced Persons
David Fisher = 316
Appendix: The Un Guiding Principles on The Internally Displaced Persons = 335
Notes on Editors and Contributors = 347
Index = 349