Joseph Allchin

Joseph Allchin is a journalist who has covered the greater Bay of Bengal region for The Economist and The Financial Times, among other publications. He is the author of the forthcoming book Many Rivers, One Sea: Bangladesh and the Challenge of Islamist Militancy.

Assam & the Hindu Nationalist Citizenship Law

Home Minister Amit Shah has promised to take the citizenship register process piloted in Assam nationwide—in order to rid the nation of its largely imaginary “infiltrators” before the next general election, scheduled for 2024.

January 6, 2020

Inventing Rohingya Extremists

Myanmar’s military rulers have long sought to portray the Sunni Muslim Rohingyas as a fifth column of dangerous Islamist extremists with links to al-Qaeda.

October 2, 2017

The Standoff in Bangladesh

It seems likely that ISIS has not set up a fully-fledged operation of its own in Bangladesh. Rather, local groups, some of whom have previous deep ties to Bangladeshi politics, have been inspired by ISIS and declared allegiance to it.

July 8, 2016

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