Exploring the gamut of issues involved in this complex problem, this book constitutes a comprehensive and in-depth study of federalism and devolution in the Sri Lankan context. The author leads us on a journey of discovery spanning various phases of the evolution of the problem, from pre-independence Sri Lanka to the victory of the Kumaratunga government in 1994, and its subsequent failure to i…
Concerns the history of Sri Lankan immigrants to Malaysia and Singapore. Much of the material for this history is based on interviews with members of the Sinhalese communities in Singapore and Malaysia. The Japanese occupation of Singapore is extensively covered
This book looks at the Rohingya in the South Asian region, primarily India and Bangladesh. It explores the broader picture of the historical and political dimensions of the Rohingya crisis, and examines subjects of statelessness, human rights and humanitarian protection of these victims of forced migration. Further, it chronicles the actual process of emergence of a stateless community, the tra…
Buku ini, yang diolah dari seri dialog di empat daerah selama setahun lalu, berusaha mengeksplorasi kemungkinan-kemungkinan tersebut, yang dipercayai akan mampu meretas horison-horison baru dalam sikap keberagamaan kita. Karena "To be religious today is to be inter-religious."
Presenting an analysis of basic information contained in the official Indonesian census conducted in the year 2000, this book focuses on Indonesian ethnicity and religion and their relevance to the study of politics.
The Atlas describes the legislation and impact of apartheid and the resistance, both local and international, to its racial policies. The integration of detailed maps and text reinforces the specifically spatial nature of apartheid, the way the map of South Africa was redrawn and continues to be redrawn
It is a story of history's relevance to the present and the future, which follows Cash's superb analogy that searching out the mind of a people is like visiting one of those churches one sees in England: the facade and towers, the windows and clerestory, the exterior and super- structure may be later Gothic of one sort or another, but look into its nave, its aisles, and its choir and you find t…
This content book: 1. Papua Ethnography 2. Names, Natural Feature & Environment Physical Characteristic and Population of Papua 3. The Eleven Local Cultures 4. Cultural Contact with the Outside world, etc.
Steele illuminates the origins of the conflict in race relations today--the increase in anger, mistrust, and even violence between blacks and whites. With candid and persuasive arguments, he shows us how both black and white Americans have become trapped into seeing color before character, and how social policies designed to lessen racial differences have instead made them greater. The Content …
The Cook Islands is at the hub of a post modernizing world; at least that it how it sometimes appears from the capital, Avarua. Sipping coffee in a tourist bar while idly gazing upon a traditional ocean-going canoe moored nearby and discussing the contemporary role of traditional leaders one has an uneasy sense that the future and the distant past are beginning to implode into each other; that …