01586nam a22001577a 4500 521666 521666 230222b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Coelho, Joanna P. and Somayaji, Ganesha 37392 Tibetan nationalism and cultural homogenisation in exile: An interpretation of institutions and the public sphere Sociological Bulletin 71(2), Apr, 2022: p.272-288 The 20th century was the century of refugees. Several wars and territorial aggrandisement policies of nascent nation–states were responsible for the exodus of persecuted people across the world. Tibet, an isolated Himalayan nation, lost its freedom and thousands of Tibetans along with their leader, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled Tibet and took refuge in India after a long walk in the month of March 1959. The exodus has been an example not only of forced de-territorialisation of a people but also of their government. When the traditional Tibetan polity consisting of diverse cultural and regional elements came in contact with the modern democratic political institutions of the host nation–state, attempts are being made to consolidate their diverse identities through homogenising nationalistic programmes. Such attempts are fraught with multiple responses in the institutions and the public sphere among the Tibetan refugees which the article attempts to interpret. – Reproduced Nationalism, De-territorialisation, Cultural homogenization, Ethinie, Cultural nation. 35825 Sociological Bulletin REFUGEES AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 396137 IIPA IIPA 2023-02-22 71(2), Apr, 2022: p.272-288 AR128048 2023-02-22 AR