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Inside the Pakistan Army: A Woman's Experience on the Frontline of the War on Terror

von Carey Schofield

The Pakistan Army is at the forefront of the West’s war on terror, policing the border with Afghanistan and the lawless tribal agencies where Osama bin Laden is said to be hiding. Since October 2009 more than...

Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab

von Shalini Sharma

This book centres on the impact of the colonial state's institutions and policies towards radical politics in the Punjab pre-Partition. Focusing on the political history of the organised left, a considerable...

The State in India after Liberalization

von Akhil Gupta & Kalyanakrishnan

This book assesses the changing nature of the state in the period after liberalization in India. It includes detailed analysis of its implications for important issues such as inequality, poverty, basic needs...

Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist's Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland

von Basharat Peer

Since 1989, when the separatist movement exploded in Kashmir, more than 70,000 people have been killed in the battle between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Born and raised in the war-torn region, Basharat...

Status and Security in Southeast Asian States

von Nicholas Tarling

Southeast Asia serves as an excellent case study to discuss major transformations in the relationship between states. This book looks at the changing nature of relationships between countries in Southeast Asia,...

The Indo-Aryan Controversy: Evidence and Inference in Indian History

von Edwin Bryant & Laurie Patton

For the first time in a single volume, this book presents the various arguments in the Indo-Aryan controversy. It also provides a template for the basic issues addressing four major areas: archaeological research,...

Becoming a Borderland: The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India

von Sanghamitra Misra

This book discusses the politics of space and identity in the borderlands of northeastern India between the early 1800s and the 1930s. Critiquing contemporary post-colonial histories where this region emerges...

Empire, Industry and Class: The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940

von Anthony Cox

Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour...

Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries

von Jagdish Bhagwati & Arvind Panagariya

In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru’s pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s....

Buddhist Teaching in India

von Johannes Bronkhorst

The earliest records we have today of what the Buddha said were written down several centuries after his death, and the body of teachings attributed to him continued to evolve in India for centuries afterward...

Mapping Central Asia: Indian Perceptions and Strategies

von Marlène Laruelle & Sébastien Peyrouse

With renewed American involvement in Afghanistan, Pakistan's growing fragility, and China's rise in power in the post-Soviet space, Central Asia-South Asia relations have become central to understanding the...

The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide

von Ayesha Jalal

Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote...

Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930: Constructing Nation and History

von Prabhu Bapu

Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented by the Hindu Mahasabha. This book explores the campaign for Hindu unity and organisation in the context of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in colonial...

The Making of Terrorism in Pakistan: Historical and social roots of extremism

von Eamon Murphy

This book explains the origins and nature of terrorism in Pakistan and examines the social, political and economic factors that have contributed to the rise of political violence there.

Since 9/11, the state...

Islamic Civilization in South Asia: A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent

von Burjor Avari

Muslims have been present in South Asia for 14 centuries. Nearly 40% of the people of this vast land mass follow the religion of Islam, and Muslim contribution to the cultural heritage of the sub-continent has...

Indian Feminisms: Law, Patriarchies and Violence in India

von Gangoli

Contributing to debates on feminism, this book considers the impact made by feminists in India from the 1970s. Geetanjali Gangoli analyses campaigns on issues of violence and women's rights, and debates on ways...

Security Community in South Asia: India - Pakistan

von Muhammad Shoaib Pervez

The security relationship between India and Pakistan is generally viewed through a neo-realist approach of International Relations.. Treading on a different path, this book explains the rivalry of these countries...

First Englishmen in India

von J. Courtenay Locke

First published in 1930. This volume contains letters and narratives of some of the Elizabethans who went to India. Here the beginnings of the British Indian Empire can be seen, arising out of the trading operations...

Taiwan's Defense Reform

von Martin Edmonds & Michael M. Tsai

The stand-off across the Straits of Taiwan continues to be one of the most dangerous confrontations in Asia. The technical superiority of the Taiwanese forces has been a major factor in maintaining balance,...

The Christians of Pakistan: The Passion of Bishop John Joseph

von Linda Walbridge

In May 1998, John Joseph, the first native Pakistani Catholic bishop, shot himself in front of the courthouse where a Christian had been sentenced to death for blasphemy. This book tells the story of the Christians...