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Re-imagining Border Studies in South Asia
This book presents a radical rethinking of Border Studies. Framing the discipline beyond conventional topics of spatiality and territoriality, it presents a distinctly South Asian perspective – a post-colonial and post-partition region where most borders were drawn with political motives, ignoring the socio-cultural realities of the region and economic necessities of the people. The authors argue that while securing borders is an essential function of the state, in this interconnected world, crossing borders and border cooperation is also necessary. The book examines contemporaneous and topical themes like disputes of identity and nationhood, the impact of social media on Border Studies, t...
Computational Advancement in Communication, Circuits and Systems
This book gathers the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Advancement in Communication Circuits and Systems (ICCACCS 2020), organized virtually by Narula Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India. The book presents peer-reviewed papers that highlight new theoretical and experimental findings in the fields of electronics and communication engineering, including interdisciplinary areas like advanced computing, pattern recognition and analysis, and signal and image processing. The respective papers cover a broad range of principles, techniques, and applications in microwave devices, communication and networking, signal and image processing, computations and mathematics, and control.
Tawang, Monpas and Tibetan Buddhism in Transition
This book presents various facets of border life in the strategic eastern sector of the India-China frontier, i.e. the Monpas of Tawang. It addresses the history of the Monpas’ transnational cultural and religious interaction. The respective chapters cover diverse topics such as culture, religion, the environment, border management, and social activism. The book offers a compelling analysis of Mon identity, their lifestyles in transition, and the reach of development politics in the Tawang borderland. It maximizes the reader's insights into development works in borderlands. This book is an essential guide for students, scholars, activists, policy makers, and anyone interested in learning about this unique geographical borderland of Monpa.
Between The Lines
A retired railway officer recalls events in his life and his career spanning the period before the country gained freedom from British rule; through turbulent times in Eastern India, wars with a neighbouring country, imposition of the Emergency with glimpses of working conditions in a public sector corporation and life in a West African country. The events are retold engagingly.
About Your Right to Information (Simplified)
This book is about the right to know. It seeks to answer the `what', `when', `where', and `how' of the right to information law in India. It also looks at the experiences since the law has been formulated besides examining some of the decisions by the Information Commission established under the RTI law.
The European Union's Role in South Asia
This book delineates the role and evolution of the European Union (EU) as an instrument of soft power in relation to South Asian countries. It explains the EU’s development policy towards South Asia and examines its cooperation while attempting to assess the extent to which EU’s development policy can be an instrument of soft power. In addition to examining the development challenges in South Asian countries and the impact of the EU’s development assistance on them, this book describes the various theoretical approaches on the concept of development, along with the interplay of aid politics in international relations (IR). Primarily, it assesses how the EU’s development policy emerge...
Patterns in Border Security
How do security communities transform into security regimes? This book compares the construction of cross-border security regimes across five regions of the world to illustrate how trust emerges from the day-to-day relations of coordination, cooperation, or collaboration. Patterns in Border Security: Regional Comparisons studies the way borderland communities develop, implement, and align border policy to enhance their sense of security. Borders have been evolving rapidly in direct response to the multifaceted challenges brought on by globalization, which has had a nuanced impact on the way borders are governed and border security is managed. Taking a methodical comparative regional approach...
Environmental Health
Environmental Health discusses environmental effects on human health. It examines heavy metal pollution, biological effects of arsenic (on reproductive health, especially), effects of soil organic carbon, chemical pollution of drinking water, climate change and vector-borne diseases, marine fuels, particulate matter, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Right To Information
Discover the power of transparency and accountability with "Right to Information" by Dr. K.B. Rai. This essential guide empowers citizens to exercise their fundamental right to access information and hold government institutions accountable. Join esteemed author Dr. K.B. Rai as he demystifies the concept of the Right to Information (RTI) and provides readers with practical guidance on how to effectively use this powerful tool. Through clear explanations and real-life examples, Dr. Rai equips readers with the knowledge and skills they need to navigate the RTI process and obtain crucial information. In "Right to Information," Dr. Rai delves into the history and significance of the RTI movement...
Development Role of EU in South Asia
Development policy of the European Union (EU) is just not confined to the development assistance programme dedicated purely for philanthropic purposes but has wider dimensions attached to it; It is one of the most imperative instrument of the European foreign policy and determines its relationship with the developing countries. This implies equally to the EUSouth Asia engagements, which evolved to third generation relationship from simple first generation commercial cooperation agreements. For analysing contemporary linkages of the EU with different South Asian countries, it is crucial to comprehend the role of development policy in South Asia. This book not only focuses on the development p...
