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 …
Contents: 1. The land and the people 2. The government 3. The economy: The atoll and island economies the economy of the country 4. Fisheries 5. Agriculture 6. Education 7. Health
The book is chronological in structure, the framework for each chapter being the events that occurred during a specific prime ministership. Woven into the story is a series of studies of economic, political, social, military, administrative, legal and cultural issues. The composite effect is a rounded picture of Nepal at that time. The book concludes with a postscript to Rana rule and a final a…
Iranian politics has been marked by sharp ideological divisions and infighting. These divides, kept largely out of public view until the 1990s, came to greater light with the contested 2009 presidential elections. To explain the diverse and complex forces that led to this event and that animate Iran’s current fractured society and polity, author Shireen T. Hunter looks beyond the battle betwe…
Kamvara provides an in depth analysis not just or political history but also of a variety of other issues that have plagued this part of the world for so many years. - Mahmood Monshipouri. This is an ambitious, stimulating book that analyzes many important issues in the region, emphasizing the challenges countries face in overcoming historical legacie, developing accountable leadership, reco…
This book contains: 1. Give peace a chance: The forces of war and peace 2. Holy lands: The history and peoples of the Middle East 3. Between Iraq dan hard place: The war in the Persian Gulf 4. Green Terror: The war and the environment 5. Spectator war: The war and the media
Bangladesh: Reflections on the Water is a personal and penetrating over view of the land and its people. James J. Novak examines the economy, the importance of seasonal fluctuations in the lifestyle and psychology of the people, geography, history, music, art, poetry, ways of thinking, and political life. He also offers a novel interpretation of the Bangladesh independence movement, the only fu…
There has been a pervasive and apparently justified feeling that the Government of India, India's corporate sector, the media and even academia, pay far less attention to the Gulf than its importance demands. More of our exports go to the Gulf than to the region that has received so much economic importance in recent years, Southeast Asia. As for imports there can be no comparison: not only doe…