Development Studies – July 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 8, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding : Peace In Between : Post-War Violence and Peacebuilding / Mats Berdal, Astri Suhrke [e-book from ebrary] Ethnographic research in the construction industry / edited by Sarah Pink, Dylan Tutt, and Andrew Dainty. Women and wars / edited by Carol Cohn ; with a foreword by Cynthia Enloe. Development, security, and aid : geopolitics and geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development / Jamey

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South Asia – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 19, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Architecture and nationalism in Sri Lanka : the trouser under the cloth / Anoma Pieris. Civil society and democratization in India : institutions, ideologies and interests / Sarbeswar Sahoo. Displacement and resettlement in India : the human cost of development / Hari Mohan Mathur India in South Asia : domestic identity politics and foreign policy from Nehru to the BJP / Sinderpal Singh. India’s rights revolution : has it worked

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South Asia – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|June 4, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Agriculture and a changing environment in Northeastern India / editor, Sumi Krishna. The making of Bihar and Biharis : colonialism, politics and culture in modern India, c. 1870-1912 / Narendra Jha. The Tibetan world of the Indian Himalayas : an ethnography of the ‘garden of Dakini’ / Tanase Jiro. Filming fiction : Tagore, Premchand, and Ray / edited by M. Asaduddin and Anuradha Ghosh. The underside of things : India

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South Asia – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 7, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Sri Lanka and the Kandy Esala Perahera : discovering the spirit of Buddah in the land of elephants / Michael Sarnacki. The great Indian phonebook : how the mass mobile changes business, politics and daily life / Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron. Beyond Swat : history, society and economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier / edited by Magnus Marsden, Benjamin Hopkins. Contesting nation : gendered violence in South Asia : notes on the postcolonial present / edited by Angana P. Chatterji and Lubna Nazir Chaudhry. Coins of Jahangir : creations of a

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Development Studies – April 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 6, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Coffee and power : revolution and the rise of democracy in Central America / Jeffery M. Paige The art of coercion : the primitive accumulation and management of coercive power / Antonio Giustozzi. The new protectorates : international tutelage and the making of liberal states / James Mayall, Ricardo Soares De Oliveira, editors. Understanding economic growth in China and India : a comparative study of selected issues / Yanrui Wu.

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South Asia – January and February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 8, 2013|South Asia|0 comments

Gujarati communities across the globe : memory, identity and continuity / edited by Sharmina Mawani and Anjoom Mukadam. Bamboo : the wonderful grass / by G.K. Ghosh. Dalits and environment : a critical analysis / D.V. Rao, P. Lakshmi. Narrative noodles : essays on Indian novels in English / C.L. Khatri. A report on the preservation of Buddhist monuments at Bamiyan in Afghanistan / by B.B. Lal and R. Sengupta ; edited

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Development Studies – January and February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 5, 2013|Development Studies|0 comments

Every nation for itself : winners and losers in a G-Zero world / Ian Bremmer. Crisis, capital flows and FDI in emerging Asia / Ramkishen S. Rajan with Sasidaran Gopalan, Rabin Hattari. From iron rice bowl to informalization: markets, workers, and the state in a changing China / [edited by] Sarosh Kuruvilla, Ching Kwan Lee, and Mary E. Gallagher.[Available as an e-book via ebrary] Modalities of change : the interface

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Chindia- New e- book on China and India as Superpowers

By Farzana Whitfield|January 3, 2013|China and Inner Asia, Politics and International Relations, South Asia|0 comments

If you have wondered about where China and India is heading and how it might impact you more than it has already done, then this book  titled: Chindia Alert: Forewarned is Forearmed is for you. It aims to inform and alert you to the threat and opportunities that China and India pose. It is based on extensive and intensive research. There is not only huge interest in China and India, but

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South Asia – November 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|December 14, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

Ancient Indian influence on Japanese culture : a comparative study of civilizations / Yoshihiro Kaburagi. Abibhakta Bāṃlāra kr̥shaka saṃgrāma / Susnāta Dāśa South Asian texts in history : critical engagements with Sheldon Pollock / edited by Yigal Bronner, Whitney Cox, and Lawrence McCrea. Nepal : nation-state in the wilderness : managing state, democracy, and geopolitics / by Lok Raj Baral. Partition of India : why 1947? / edited by Kaushik

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South Asia – September and October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 22, 2012|South Asia|0 comments

E- Book Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719 / Munis D. Faruqui. Available from Dawsonera The tiger vanquished : LTTE’s story / M.R. Narayan Swamy. Available from ebrary Print Journal The International Journal of Jaina Studies Books Nartanam. vol. 12, no. 2. –  Special issue of the journal ‘Narantam’ on Tagore’s vision of dance. Penser, dire et représenter l’animal dans le monde indien / textes réunis par Nalini Balbir et Georges-Jean

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