Product Description: This collection of papers originated at a Paris seminar. It The volume covers a very broad spectrum of life in Pakistan Pakistan and focuses on political, strategic, cultural, social and gender topics. Hitherto readers have had access to British, American and even Indian studies on Pakistan, while this is the first volume which makes accessible the views of French scholars...read more

Product Description: Most migration studies focus on the growing phenomenon of rural-urban migration. This unusual volume explores an equally significant, but less noticed, phenomenon, namely that the existence of a large and increasing urban population has not yet prevented the growth of the rural population in India...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An Indian woman viewed as an untouchable in her village tells her life story (view table of contents)