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South Asia is undoubtedly a human security deficit region. India too is no exception. This volume is an in depth study on the human security situation in India. Despite some remarkable achievements in the socio-economic, political and scientific fields, India's 1.15 billion people suffer from a deep sense of insecurity, marginalisation, exclusion, shelterlessness and violence. The thrust of the book is on understanding the human security situation and then ...
This book has brought together a collection of carefully selected essays on religious minorities in South Asia with emphasis on the post-colonial situation covering Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Authors from around the South Asian region, France and UK use fresh empirical data to present portraits of religious minorities in each South Asian country individually. It is not a study of minority in isolation; it situates the religious minorities ...
This volume is an outcome of collective endeavour aimed at understanding the issues of emerging ethnicity, conflict resolution and peace processes in India’s sensitive North-East, comprised of seven states i.e. Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura. Perpetual ethnic conflicts and their resultant violence have severely affected the society, polity and economy of the region during the entire post-colonial period beginning ...
This book, the first in a series on the North East, focuses on development-induced displacement of population in the region during the post-colonial period. Despite state-sponsored development initiatives, the North East still remains highly underdeveloped and politically disturbed. Various development projects initiated by the state led to massive displacement of population within the region, which has virtually gone unnoticed. The author has ...