Sudhir Kumar Singh
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The age-old idea of Pakhtunistan has remained alive over the centuries. The Durand Line drawn in 1893 merged a portion of Afghanistan with the British Empire; it was named NWFP. Even after Partition, NWFP remained volatile for Pakistan. In the 1946 elections in British India, the Muslim League was defeated in NWFP by the Frontier Gandhi Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, leader of the Congress Party in NWFP. Although, through a plebiscite, NWFP was merged with Pakistan, ...
Tourism has remained neglected in our country due to variety of factors. The process of globalisation has however given new twist to India and we can develop our tourism sector at par with leading countries of the globe. India has the potential to develop varieties of tourism and time has come to develop it at full pace. We will incorporate millions of poor people into the mainstreaming process of development through developing tourism. It is one of the most ...
In the post-cold war scenario regional cooperation has become one of the most important realities of the international system. SAARC is of great significance for the lesser developed countries. The formation of SAARC was aimed to upgrade the life standard of the common people within South Asian region. Thus, SAARC itself dedicated to economic, technological, social, and cultural development emphasising collective self-reliance. Due to variety of prevailing ...
In the Post-9/11 scenario international system, Asia is supposed to recapture the focal attention of the international system. But due to inherent rivalry among Asian powers it seems to be an utopian idea. China and India?s bilateral relationship is the key to emergence of Asia as the new power house of the global system. Due to baggage of history both India and China are not doing well in the arena of strategic cooperation despite their excellent economic ...
In an era of increasing globalization, women continue to be underrepresented and stereotyped in national, international and global news media. The problem is exacerbated when traditional geographic boundaries are crossed and the media in one country report on issues and events, particularly those that impact women, in another country. Feminist Media Studies provides a trans-disciplinary transnational feminist approaches to the field of media and communication ...
Over the centuries, minorities questions have led to interventions, aggressions, and wars, both local and general. Almost all the countries in this world are having minorities within their territories and rare can point to history entirely free of conflict involving them. Probably the most difficult issue in the evolution of human rights is the question of rights of minorities. The South Asian region has always been troubled with the problems of minorities. Since ...
This edited volume is an attempt to chart out and explain the retreat of secularism tin Bangladesh and the consequent decline in the status of minorities. The contributors point to the historical reasons for predominantly Muslim Bangladesh to adopt a secular constitution when it won independence from Pakistan as well as the socio-politico-economic reasons for its abandonment. The volume shows how the quest for legitimacy by unelected leaders who had come to power ...
Though the NLF had been led by the Communists, but it had a nationalist agenda. When the US indulged in bombing, strafing and shooting indiscriminately to annihilate Communism in Vietnam, the NLF fought bravely. Despite initial reverses, Vietnam became victorious in driving out the Americans and in unifying the two parts of Vietnam. The present study has analysed those developments in depth and says the Vietnamese are staunch nationalists. The NLF became ...
The book titled Population and Sustainable Development in India edited by Prof. Ehsanul Haq and Dr. S.K. Singh covers a popular theme. It is an attempt to examine the relationship between population and sustainable development .It broadly deals with the twin problems of overpopulation and underdevelopment to which most developing societies are confronted with. These problems are relative and affect other. The Papers of this book touch upon almost every aspect of ...
The end of the Cold War has changed the entire contours of the international system. Since the Kautilayan period till now realism has been the cardinal principle of foreign policy. Since its inception, Indian foreign policy has been however embedded with idealism. The phenomenal change of Indian foreign policy was incorporated during P.V. Narsinga Rao's Regime (1991-96). After that every successive regime has maintained the sustainability to cope with the ...