Two books present the dichotomy of Bhutan´s image - from one perspective, the progressive-though-traditional idyll, to another, the authoritarian-to-dictatorial regime.
If the metamorphosis of Mohandas Gandhi's Gujarat into a Hindutva laboratory was baffling to social scientists, Orissa's recent emergence as another communal hotspot has been no
Following in a long line of analysis, talk shows on television on several occasions over the past summer featured experts who made politically correct statements in favour of a series
Pilgrimage to Paradise:Sufi tales from Rumi
edited by Kamla K Kapur
Penguin, 2009
Rumi is undoubtedly one of the best-known of the Sufi masters. Even so, the public, for
Like most words that mean little but pretend to say a lot, secular was one that I did not encounter by accident. Its meaning, and the shadows of its connotations,
While Arundhati Roy’s collection of essays reveals critical political truths and the acts of violence India has witnessed, it also raises questions about the elite practice of literary catharsis and the motives behind activist writing
On 15 August 2009, a policeman was suspended in Dantewada in Chhattisgarh, the epicentre of one of the fiercest ongoing conflicts between India's Maoists, the armed vigilante group
Dynamics and Development of Highland Ecosystems
by Ek Raj Ojha
Walden Book House, Kathmandu, 1999 (first edition)
pp xxxv, 279 + 28(unnumbered), price not mentioned
In recent years, the study
Resources and Population
A study of the Gurungs of Nepal
By Alan Macfarlane
Ratna Pustak Bhandar, Kathmandu, 2003
pp xxvi+364, no recommended price
ISBN 99933-0-377-1
This is the second
Women for Afghan Women
edited by Sunita Mehta
Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2002
pp xiii+236, USD 13.95
ISBN 1 4039 6017 8
Edited by NRI feminist Sunita Mehta,
The Oxford India Companion to Sociology and Social Anthropology (2 volumes)
Edited by Veena Das
OUP, New Delhi, 2003
pp xvi, viii+1660, INR 3750
ISBN 0 19564582 0
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