by Ian Talbot (2000)
"India and Pakistan provides an historical understanding of the chequered process of nation-building in the subcontinent. In particular, Talbot examines the role of 'parochial' loyalties and the impact of contemporary processes of economic and cultural globalization on national and local allegiances. And, in introducing the increasingly important function of overseas South Asian communities in the political mobilization of the homeland, the reader is shown the complexities of South Asian society and the effects of its relationship with the state on the process of nation-building in India and Pakistan."--Jacket.
Colin Legum
"This study consists of two chapters which appear in the current volume of the Africa Contemporary Record (1974-5). The first is an essay which attempts to recontruct the history of the secret diplomacy that produced the historic Lusaka Declaration of December 1974. ... The second part consists of an analysis of economic, political and social developments in the Republic of South Africa during the period covered by the previous essay."
Chitralekha Zutshi
"Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, Kashmir has met with rather perfunctory treatment from historians of South Asia. The few works of history and politics that have appeared on this region, moreover, insist on defining Kashmiri culture, history, and identity in terms of the ahistorical concept of Kashmiriyat, or a uniquely Kashmiri cultural identity. This book, in contrast, questions the notion of any transcendent cultural uniqueness and Kashmiriyat by returning Kashmir to the mainstream of South Asian historiography. It examines the hundred-year impact of indirect colonial rule on Kashmirs class formation. It studies the uses (and abuses) made of Kashmirs political elites by the state. It looks at the responses of Kashmirs society to social and economic restructuring. It shows that while all these historical changes had a profound impact on the political culture of the Kashmir Valley, there is nothing very inevitable or quite definite about the 'political regionalism' and 'Islamic particularism' of this area. Using local language sources and every important archive, this major history of the formation of Kashmir shows precisely how the Kashmir Valley assumed the position it has come to occupy in postcolonial South Asia."--Jacket.
Subhas Chandra Bose
"This volume of Netaji Bose's collected works covers perhaps the most difficult, daring and controversial phase in the life of India's foremost anti-colonial revolutionary. His writings and broadcasts of this period cover a broad range of topics."--BOOK JACKET.
Alexi Berríos Berríos
"Study of the Cipriano Castro regime, focusing on the confrontations with foreign powers and business interests. Portrays Castro as a nationalist, influenced by Santanderian liberalism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.