Author : Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0231138474
Asian history.
Author : Kripa Sridharan
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9812304355
Provides a comparative sketch of regional cooperation in South and Southeast Asia in the light of various political, economic and social developments in the two regions.
Author : Kishor Sharma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317167988
Child labour is a serious and contentious issue throughout the developing world and it continues to be a problem whose form and very meaning shifts with social, geographical, economic and cultural context. While the debate about child labour practice in developing countries appears to be motivated by growing competition in labour intensive products brought about by globalization, studies on this issue are both sparse and lopsided. This important book aims to shed light on this debate by documenting the experience of South Asian developing countries which have experienced rapid income and export growth. Based on evidence from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, this volume aims to improve our understanding about the link between trade, growth and child labour practices, as well as management of child labour in developing countries.
Author : Ashley J. Tellis
Publisher : NBR
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Asia
ISBN : 0971393885
Based upon work supported by the Department of Energy (National Nuclear Security Administration) under Award Number DE-FG52-03SF22724.
Author : Sunil Amrith
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0465097731
From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its waters Asia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas -- and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking out from India, he shows how dreams and fears of water shaped visions of political independence and economic development, provoked efforts to reshape nature through dams and pumps, and unleashed powerful tensions within and between nations. Today, Asian nations are racing to construct hundreds of dams in the Himalayas, with dire environmental impacts; hundreds of millions crowd into coastal cities threatened by cyclones and storm surges. In an age of climate change, Unruly Waters is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Asia's past and its future.
Author : Ashley J. Tellis
Publisher : NBR
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2013-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1939131286
The 2013-14 Strategic Asia volume examines the role of nuclear weapons in the grand strategies of key Asian states and assesses the impact of these capabilities—both established and latent—on regional and international stability. In each chapter, a leading expert explores the historical, strategic, and political factors that drive a country's calculations vis-a-vis nuclear weapons and draws implications for American interests.
Author : S. Paul Kapur
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,22 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Arms race
ISBN : 9789971694432
Author : Rattan Lal
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 21,22 MB
Release : 2010-10-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9048195160
This book addresses an important topic of food security in South Asia with specific reference to climate change. Of the 1 billion food insecure people in the world, more than 30% are in South Asia. The problem of food insecurity may be exacerbated by the projected climate change especially because of the water scarcity caused by rapid melting of the glaciers in the Himalayas and increase in variability in monsoonal rains and frequency of extreme events. Furthermore, large populations of Bangladesh and other coastal regions may be displaced by sea level rise. Thus, this volume addresses recommended land use and soil/water/crop/vegetation management practices which would enable land managers to adapt to climate disruption by enhancing soil/ecosystem/social resilience. In addition to biophysical factors, this book also addresses the issues related to human dimensions including social, ethnical and political considerations.
Author : Papiya Ghosh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 23,13 MB
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1317809653
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Negotiating nations 2. Claiming Pakistan 3. Resisting Hindutva 4. Redoing South Asia 5. Conclusion Bibliography Index
Author : Sadan Jha
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000429423
This volume explores ideas of home, belonging and memory in migration through the social realities of leaving and living. It discusses themes and issues such as locating migrant subjectivities and belonging; sociability and wellbeing; the making of a village; bondage and seasonality; dislocation and domestic labour; women and work; gender and religion; Bhojpuri folksongs; folk music; experience; and the city to analyse the social and cultural dynamics of internal migration in India in historical perspectives. Departing from the dominant understanding of migration as an aberration impelled by economic factors, the book focuses on the centrality of migration in the making of society. Based on case studies from an array of geo-cultural regions from across India, the volume views migrants as active agents with their own determinations of selfhood and location. Part of the series Migrations in South Asia, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of migration studies, refugee studies, gender studies, development studies, social work, political economy, social history, political studies, social and cultural anthropology, exclusion studies, sociology, and South Asian Studies.
