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  • Garrisoned Minds

    Women and Armed Conflict in South Asia

    by Laxmi Murthy, Mitu Varma ...
    ‘Women are often the worst affected by militarisation but their stories rarely get heard. Garrisoned Minds, which brings together insights and analysis from some of the major conflict zones of South Asia, is a welcome and valuable corrective, one which must be read by both policy-makers and the public.’— Siddharth Varadarajan, Founding Editor of thewire.inMilitarisation and violence as a response ... Read more

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  • The Great Partition

    The Making of India and Pakistan, New Edition

    by Yasmin Khan ...
    A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis.   ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • India and Pakistan

    Continued Conflict or Cooperation?

    by Stanley Wolpert ...
    Beginning in 1947, when "India and Pakistan were born to conflict," renowned India scholar Stanley Wolpert provides an authoritative, accessible primer on what is potentially the world's most dangerous crisis. He concisely distills sixty-three years of complex history, tracing the roots of the relationship between these two antagonists, explaining the many attempts to resolve their disputes, and ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Midnight's Borders

    A People's History of Modern India

    by Suchitra Vijayan ...
    A Booklist "Top 10 History Book of 2022"The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9,000-mile journey along its many contested bordersSharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also the site of the world's biggest crisis of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Bangladesh Reader

    History, Culture, Politics

    Edited by Meghna Guhathakurta, Willem van Schendel ...
    Series series The world readers
    Bangladesh is the world's eighth most populous country. It has more inhabitants than either Russia or Japan, and its national language, Bengali, ranks sixth in the world in terms of native speakers. Founded in 1971, Bangladesh is a relatively young nation, but the Bengal Delta region has been a major part of international life for more than 2,000 years, whether as an important location for trade ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh

    Remembering 1971

    by Yasmin Saikia ...
    Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act of betrayal by the Bengalis. None of these nationalist histories convey the human cost of the war. ... Read more

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  • The 1947 Partition of British India

    Forced Migration and Its Reverberations

    by Jennifer Leaning, Shubhangi Bhadada ...
    The 1947 Partition of British India remains the largest instance of forced migration in the recorded human history. Despite the passage of time, it is still widely seen as a process of singular distress and sorrow. Yet, for those in the subcontinent, the Partition also offers a process of self-exploration for subsequent generations. This book is the first collection of chapters related to the ... Read more

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  • Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics in Southwest Asia

    Pakistan and Afghanistan since 9/11

    by Iftikhar H. Malik ...
    Series series Anthem Middle East Studies
    ‘Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics in Southwest Asia’ brings together Pakistan and Afghanistan as two inseparable entities by investigating areas such as the evolution and persistence of the Taliban, quest for Pashtun identity, the ambivalent status of the tribal region and the state of civic clusters on both sides. In addition to their relations with the United States and the EU, a due attention ... Read more

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  • India-Pakistan in War and Peace

    by J. N. Dixit ...
    As the Kashmir dispute brings India and Pakistan ominously close to nuclear war this book provides a compelling account of the history and politics of these two great South Asian rivals. Like the Israel-Palestine struggle, the Indian-Pakistan rivalry is a legacy of history. The two countries went to war within months of becoming independent and, over the following half-century, they have fought ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Bridging Partition: People's Initiatives for Peace Between India & Pakistan

    by Smitu Kothari & Zia Mian et al ...
    Over the past three decades, in the shadow of hostile nationalisms fueled by radical Islamic and Hindu politics, military crises, a runaway arms race, nuclear weapons and war, an amazing set of civil society initiatives has been taking root in India and Pakistan. A citizens diplomacy movement embracing thousands of activists, scholars, business people and retired government officials has emerged ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad

    The Covert War in Kashmir, 1947-2004

    by Praveen Swami ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad explores the history of jihadist violence in Kashmir, and argues that the violent conflict which exploded after 1990 was not a historical discontinuity, but, rather, an escalation of what was by then a five-decade old secret war.Praveen Swami addresses three key issues:the history of jihadist violence in Jammu and Kashmir, which is examined as it evolved from ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • A History of Modern South Asia

    Politics, States, Diasporas

    by Ian Talbot ...
    Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since 1757 and specifically on the impact of external influences on the local peoples and cultures. This text ... Read more

    $31.99 USD