The year book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the security environment in South Asia. International focus on the region and its increasing engagement by the comity of nations are ample indications of its emergence as the next power center in global politics. And yet, while it continues to grow in economic, industrial and military potential, its peculiar security environment, ridden …
In the century we are witnessing a major discursive shift in interpretation of relationships between politics, bureaucracy, markets and social concern. The credit for the ring of new changes goes to major developments in the global political economy. These are reflected mainly in repeated assertions of commitment to liberalization. Consequently, over four decades old Indian model of development…
Rather unexpectedly, a new phenomenon called the Taliban was sprung on an unsuspecting world in late 1994. Even those who knew about it earlier, looked upon it as just another Islamic fundamentalist faction ridden Afghan politics. But the Taliban's captures of Kabul in September 1996 and their claim to governance in the war-torn country introduces a new complexion on this band of mostly young A…
This volume one: Towards independence-the pre-1947 period, studies India and the simon report; An insight into the khilafat movement; Failure of sir stafford cripp's mission; Gandhi and partition of India; India's independence and the war.; The fourth dimension of Indian national movement; History of the act of 1935; The sphere of provincial government under the government of India act, 1935; P…
The Kargil war came out of the blue after 28 years of peace in the subcontinent. It came in the wake of the well publicized bus diplomacy and the Lahore declaration which seemed to herald a new era of Indo-Pak relations. It caught the government of India, the army and the intelligence agencies flat footed. It shocked the Indian people. The war is perhaps over. The intruders have been mostly pus…
It is the first book by a serving insider based upon direct experience as a Brigadier General Staff of 15 Corps in the Valley from November 1993 to 30 September 1995. All existing books address the socio-political issues about Kashmir. This deals with the psychology or mentality of political violence. What drives a common citizen to pick up on the gun, how a terrorist thinks and how violence …
Half-a-Century ago on 15th August 1947, India attained freedom from the British rule. This volume three contains chronology of events from 1947 to 1997 and gives a bird's eye view of India's land and people and all important events in India during the first 50 years of this nascent democracy.
The peculiar demographic landscape of J&K consists of three distinct geographical and ethnic groups with conflicting political aspirations. The solution must fulfill the legitimate economic, ethnic, social and political aspirations or people in different regions-Jammu, Ladakh and Kashmir. Kashmir continues to cause concern. Over the years, the problems have assumed dangerous proportions. A Pred…
The Sri Lankan pot continues to boil. Although the ceasefire agreement of February 2002 between the government in Colombo and the LTTE has helped bring down temperatures, a permanent political settlement remains, at best, a hope with more complexities entering the arena with each passing day. To take stock of the situation and to draw lessons for the future, the chennai chapter of the observer …
Since 9/11, the war in Afghanistan and the invasion of Iraq, the West has been fighting a 'War on Terror', through force and through the building of new societies in the region. In this clear and devastating account, with unparalleled access and intimate knowledge of the political players, Descent into Chaos chronicles our failure. Having reported from central Asia for a quarter of a century…