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Dancing with the river : people and life on the Chars of South Asia
An intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of \"hybrid landscapes\" and their inhabitants. With this book, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of \"hybrid environments.\" Focusing on chars -- the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal -- the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metaphors, chars straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water, charts a new way of thinking about land, people, and people's ways of life. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt is a senior fellow in resource management in the Asia-Pacific Program at the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. She lives in Canberra. Gopa Samanta is an associate professor in geography at the University of Burdwan. She lives in Golapbag, Burdwan, India.
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Midnight's descendants : a history of South Asia since partition /
\"In Midnight's Descendants, John Keay presents the first general history of present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and its peoples. The book examines the complex web of affiliations--of kinship, locality, language, tribe, clan, profession, and caste--that shape relations among the countries in the region. Keay argues that correlating and contrasting the fortunes of all the constituent nations since the 1947 partition affords unique insights into the tensions and conflicts that divide the region to this day\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900
The perception, valuation, and manipulation of human
environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha
argues in this sweeping examination of a pivotal five hundred years
when successive empires struggled to harness lands and peoples to
their agendas across Asia. Ecologies of Empire in South Asia,
1400-1900 compares the practices of the Mughal and British
Empires to demonstrate how their fluctuating capacity for
domination was imbricated in the formation of environmental
knowledge itself.
The establishment of imperial control transforms local knowledge
of the world into the aggregated information that reproduces
centralized power over it. That is the political ecology that
reshapes entire biomes. Animals and plants are translocated; human
communities are displaced or destroyed. Some species proliferate;
others disappear. But these state projects are overlaid upon the
many local and regional geographies made by sacred cosmologies and
local sites, pilgrimage routes and river fords, hot springs and
fluctuating aquifers, hunting ranges and nesting grounds, notable
trees and striking rocks.
Guha uncovers these ecological histories by scrutinizing
little-used archival sources. His historically based political
ecology demonstrates how the biomes of a vast subcontinent were
changed by struggles to make and to resist empire.
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Ismailism and Islam in modern South Asia : community and identity in the age of religious internationals
\"Explores the evolution of a Shia Ismaili identity in modern South Asia and traces the genealogies of conceptual categories and institutions that conditioned the historical process\"-- Provided by publisher.
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South Asia's weak states : understanding the regional insecurity predicament
South Asia, which consists of eight states of different sizes and capabilities, is characterized by high levels of insecurity at the inter-state, intra-state, and human level: insecurity that is manifest in both traditional and non-traditional security problems-especially transnational terrorism fuelled by militant religious ideologies. To explain what has caused and contributed to the perpetual insecurity and human suffering in the region, this book engages scholars of international relations, comparative politics, historical sociology, and economic development, among others, to reveal and analyze the key underlying and proximate drivers. It argues that the problems are driven largely by two critical variables: the presence of weak states and weak cooperative interstate norms. Based on this analysis and the conclusions drawn, the book recommends specific policies for making the region secure and for developing the long lasting inter- and intra-state cooperative mechanisms necessary for the perpetuation of that security.
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Connections and Complexity
This compilation of original research articles highlight the important cross-regional, cross-chronological, and comparative approaches to political and economic landscapes in ancient South Asia and its neighbors. Focusing on the Indus Valley period and Iron Age India, this volume incorporates new research in South Asia within the broader universe of archaeological scholarship. Contributions focus on four major themes: reinterpreting material culture; identifying domains and regional boundaries; articulating complexity; and modeling interregional interaction. These studies develop theoretical models that may be applicable researchers studying cultural complexity elsewhere in the world.
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Human security in South Asia : concept, environment, and development
\"This book delves into the theory and praxis of human security in South Asia. Home to almost a quarter of the world's population and fast emerging markets, South Asia holds social, geo-political, and economic significance in the current global context. The essays in the volume: examine the challenges to human security through an exploration of environmental issues including water availability, electric waste, environmental governance, and climate change; explore key themes such as development, displacement and migration, the role of civil society, sustainable development, and poverty discuss developmental issues in South Asia and provides a holistic picture of non-military security issues. Bringing together scholars from varied disciplines, this comprehensive volume will be useful for researchers, teachers and students of international relations, human rights, political science, development studies, human geography and demography, defence and strategic studies, migration and diaspora studies, and South Asian studies\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Ethnicity and Democracy in the Eastern Himalayan Borderland
This book presents a close look at the growth, success, and proliferation of ethnic politics on the peripheries of modern South Asia, built around a case study of the Nepal ethnic group that lives in the borderlands of Sikkim, Darjeeling, and east Nepal. Grounded in historical and ethnographic research, it critically examines the relationship between culture and politics in a geographical space that is home to a diverse range of ethnic identities, showing how new modes of political representation, cultural activism, and everyday politics have emerged from the region.
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