Defenders of the Establishment: Ruler-Supportive Police Forces of South Asia
by K.S. Dhillon
Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 199_
pp 290, INR 300
The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan
by Peter Marsden
Oxford University Press, Karachi/Zed Books, London & New York, 1998
pp x+162, PKR 395
Following in the footsteps of Seven Years in Tibet and Kundun, the latest offering for Himalayan buffs is none other than Everest, the movie. This film, however, is one Himalayan
States, Citizens and Outsiders: The Uprooted Peoples of South Asia
edited by Tapan Bose and Rita Manchanda
South Asia Forum for Human Rights.
Kathmandu, 1997
Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition
by Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin
Borders and Boundaries: Women in India's Partition is a timely book for all
The Other Side of Silence
by Urvashi Butalia
Viking, New Delhi, 1998
Dayawanti/Ayesha could easily be a character out of a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. So could her son
A Dragonfly in the Sun: An Anthology of Pakistani Writing in English
Selected and edited by Muneeza Shomsie
Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1997
hardback xxxi + 599 pages
