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The Kashmir Question: Retrospect and Prospect (Volume 0)

India, which had been created as a civic polity, initially sought to hold on to this Muslim-majority state to demonstrate its secular credentials. Pakistan, in turn, had laid claim to Kashmir because

• Release Date: 2003-07-01
• Category: India
• Tags: The Kashmir Question Retrospect Prospect Volume

The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India's Future

Nussbaum reveals in this penetrating look at India today, the forces of the Hindu right pose a disturbing threat to its democratic traditions and secular state.

Since long before the 2002 Gujarat

• Release Date: 2009-01-15
• Category: India
• Tags: The Clash Within Democracy Religious Violence India's Future

IN SPITE OF THE GODS: THE STRANGE RISE OF MODERN INDIA

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the auhtor gives a vivid description of present politics, religion, castes in india; he manages to show that in spite of seeral problems associated with corruption, castes

• Release Date: 2006-01-01
• Category: India
• Tags: SPITE THE GODS THE STRANGE RISE MODERN INDIA

The Modernity of Sanskrit

, Simona Sawhney argues that only a literary approach that resists the closure of interpretation can reveal the fragility, ambivalence, and tension that mark the canonical texts.

Today we witness

• Release Date: 2008-12-11
• Category: India
• Tags: The Modernity Sanskrit

A Region in Turmoil: South Asian Conflicts since 1947 (Reaktion Books - Contemporary Worlds)

, and nationalism that sends unsettling ripples through the global balance of power even today. Rob Johnson writes here the engrossing history of the individual conflicts that have engulfed the states of South Asia

• Release Date: 2005-09-15
• Category: India
• Tags: Region Turmoil South Asian Conflicts since 1947 Reaktion Books Contemporary Worlds

Rewriting Indian History

In this examination of Indian history, the case is made that India's greatness is not only a lingering memory of the pre-Muslim conquest golden age, but has never diminished and continues today

• Release Date: 1900-01-01
• Category: India
• Tags: Rewriting Indian History

Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia

life to the political injunction to wage war against enemies of Islam. Today, more than ever, jihad signifies the political opposition between Islam and the West. As the line drawn between Muslims

• Release Date: 2008-03-31
• Category: India
• Tags: Partisans Allah Jihad South Asia

The Young Turks in Opposition (Studies in Middle Eastern History)

of the period 1908-18; that former members ran the country until 1960; and that even today, the official state ideology shows the influence of ideas dating to that period. Perhaps Hanioglu's most original

• Release Date: 1995-03-16
• Category: India
• Tags: The Young Turks Opposition Studies Middle Eastern History

Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion

radical, always extremely Other, Tantra has proven a key factor in the imagining of India. This book offers a critical account of how the phenomenon has come to be.

Tracing the complex genealogy

• Release Date: 2003-10-14
• Category: India
• Tags: Tantra Sex Secrecy Politics Power the Study Religion

Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic world

. It is conceivable that in the absence of paper, there would be a significant reduction in written documents that would survive to the present day. Much of the history we know of and study today is derived from

• Release Date: 2001-11-01
• Category: India
• Tags: Paper Before Print The History Impact Paper the Islamic world