Product Description: The four volumes of research surveys and explorations in political science conducted by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) not only provide a summary evaluation of the state of the research and valuable bibliographic guide but also highlight research trends and possible lines of future enquiry...read more

Product Description: This is the first of a four-volume survey and explorations in political science conducted by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. While this volume undertakes a review of literature on the Indian state written during the period 2003-2009, it goes beyond the confines of this period to explore links, continuities, and trends observed in research on the Indian state right since the fifties...read more

Product Description: This is the second of a four-volume survey and explorations in political science conducted by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. Once regarded as an exception to the dominant conceptions of the theory and practice of democracy, India over the past two decades, has come to be seen as a successful democracy, offering important lessons to countries with diversities and problems of economic development...read more

Product Description: The real reasons for the war In Iraq--control of all pricing and policies, expansion of US power, establishment of US bases in the strategic Middle East, defense of Israel--were kept hidden from the American people. Instead, justifications for the illegal war were cloaked in the high-sounding slogans of fighting the war on terrorism, keeping nuclear weapons out of the hands of rogue states, and finally, bringing democracy to the Middle East...read more

Contributed papers presented in a conference on 'Globalization and South Asia', organized by Academy of Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Product Description: Book by Arundhati Roy, Noam Chomsky, Johan Galtung, Harold Pinter, Achin Vanaik, Steve Boggin, Michael Barratt Brown, Tony Simpson, Ken Coates, Pamela White

Product Description: Nuclear tests in India and Pakistan brought the threat of nuclear war back to the world's centre stage. The tests and nuclear moves have raised regional tension, increased poverty in already impoverished nations, and could possibly have fuelled an arms race which goes beyond the borders of the two countries...read more

Product Description: The recent Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests brought nuclear proliferation and the terrible threat of nuclear war back to the world's center stage. The south Asian nuclear moves have raised regional tensions, transformed Kashmir into a potentially nuclear flashpoint, increased the poverty of already devastated populations, fueled a conventional and possibly nuclear arms race far beyond the borders of the two countries, and vastly distorted definitions of international status and influence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Furies of Indian Communalism is a powerful and rigorous analysis of the growing phenomenon of Hindu communalism, which currently threatens to tear India apart. Placing the politics of Hindu nationalism and anti-Muslim hatred in a global context, Vanaik explains the specific nature and modernity of communalism, distinguishing it both from fascism and from merely religious extremism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Contributed papers on the communal problem in India, chiefly with reference to Hindu and Muslim.