This study has been undertaken in the context of this peculiar nature of the complex interaction, and the American interest in South Asia. All important milestones have been focused upon in this study from 1492, when Christopher Columbus managed to obtain the patronage of the Spanish crown to discover a sea route to India, down to the years just before the Partition of 1947. The visit to India …
The contents of this book: 1. The Hindu-Muslims Divide 2. Option-India 3. The First War - 1947-48 4. Kashmir - An Obsession 5. Another Attempt - Battling for Kashmir Again
The Kashmir dispute has dominated Indo-Pakistani relations ever since the Transfer of Power over forty years ago; and it has played a major part in the genesis of the Sino-Indian boundary dispute. Alastair Lamb, on the basis of research carried on over thirty years examines the history of this dispute from its remote origins in the first half of the 19th century, when the State of Jammu and Kas…
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…
In it's most apparent dimension, this book is a very effective biography of the JVP movement - the lives and tragedies of Sri Lanka's most fearsome insurrection. Sri Lanka - The lost revolution? describes events during a tragic period of our country. The upheaval shook the nation to its very foundation and traumatised an entire generation. No other account of the events that have taken place…
Nepal and India are not only non-aligned nations belonging to the third world; but are also bastions of traditional conservatism going through a process of hectic change and transformation. They share a common culture, values, and socio-religious traditions and are going through a rapid social and technological changes as the world prepares itself to step in to the shoes of the twenty-first cen…
Pakistan - with its political instability, vociferous Islamic community, pressing economic and social problems, access to nuclear weapons, and proximity to Afghanistan - stands at the very center of global attention. Can General Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, control the forces that helped create the Taliban in Afghanistan? In this book, journalist Owen Bennett Jones looks at Pakistan's …
When Zionist leaders formulated the "Iron Wall" strategy in the 1920s they hoped that Israel would be able to make peace with its Arab neighbours. This has been an elusive hope. In this text, Shlaim explores the reason for Israel's long reliance on military power in the absence of a settlement.