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Insights and Commentaries: South and Central Asia
This volume emerged out of a search for scholarship that has studied connectivity between South and Central Asia from a variety of perspectives. Geographically and culturally, the vision that India has had of the region she referred to as Central Asia is of a space extending across China westward upto the Aral Sea and including within it Balkh, Bukhara and Samarkand. The Indian fascination with the region extends to various levels as this is the region out of which invading tribes entered India, across whose Silk Routes trade flourished and also the region where Indian culture and religion spread. Keeping this in mind the volume begins with an overview of positions from which the region has ...
Central Asia and Regional Security
While security concerns have assumed salience across the globe, Afghanistan’s proximity to Central Asia has meant that security or perceptions of insecurity dominate the strategic discourse in the region. Issues that stand out include the challenges that the Central Asian states will face in terms of stability, ethnic tensions, radicalization of youth, destabilization of commodity flows and energy security and the impact that these could have on Central Asian society. However, security cannot just be defined in terms of security at the borders. It needs to be defined in ‘cosmopolitan’ terms through an array of issues like movements across borders, radicalism within states, the sharing of water, and various multilateral attempts at combating insecurity. This volume is an attempt to focus on some of these issues that reflect on perceptions of security principally from Indian and Uzbek positions. It examines shifts over the last two decades, from debates on the geopolitical importance of the region from a great game perspective to the salience of new engagements within the international arena.
Protest and the State in Eurasia and West Asia
The twenty-first century has witnessed disaffection and protest across Eurasia and West Asia, triggering debates questioning the state of governance as well as looking at a redefinition of the ‘arc of crisis.’ By and large, there have been two major viewpoints, one which emphasises the aspect of ‘failed states’ and the other that focuses on technology as the prime instigator and motivator for the protests. Even as the Arab Uprisings are commonly acknowledged as an upshot of a succession of protests as well as the “colour revolutions” across Eurasia and West Asia, the after effects have been incessant with the Maidan in Ukraine and intermittent protests in Turkey. The causative fa...
Geopolitics and Energy Resources in Central Asia and Caspian Sea Region
Contributed articles presented in a seminar at the Centre for Russian, Central Asian, and East European Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in February 1999.
Annual Report
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Indian Culture
The Present Volume Is A Modest Attempt To Document The Activities Of The Various Cultural Institutions Guided And Supported By The Government Of India. It Includes Profiles Of Institutions Such As Libraries, Museums, Archives, Art Galleries, Akademies, Zonal Cultural Centres And The Archaeological Survey Of India.
Peoples Republic of China at Fifty
Papers presented at a seminar.
Women in Asia
Written Around The Themes Of Work, Culture And Politics, The Essays In This Volume Reflect An Attempt To Move Beyond The Narrow Limits Of The Sociological Studies Of Domesticity To An Examination Of The Larger Issues Of Nation, Its Economy And Culture, Which Have Gender Implications.
Social Stress and Mental Health
The immense stress that the people of Calcutta suffer as a result of overpopulation, migration, economic hardships, changing life styles and social structure is explored in this study. Depressive neuroses were found to be much more common - particularly among poor women - in Calcutta than in other Indian cities. However, the unique resilience of family systems was found to prevent Calcuttans having a `culture of poverty'.
