Swaran Singh
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This volume seeks to examine the evolving contours of Asian multilateralism through emerging China and its impact on the growth trajectories of Asian countries. It explores the prospects for partnership in Asia in terms of China’s engagement with its principal Asian neighbours, especially India. A substantial part of the volume is devoted to debating China-India relations, highlighting their mutual stakes through their economic and security cooperation as ...
China's much celebrated revolutionary zeal, communist ideology, and Marx-Lenin-Mao thought have never been the dominant force behind its South Asia policy. This was determined instead by Beijing's hard-headed cost/benefit analysis so aptly cloaked in the famous Five Principles of peaceful-co-existence (Panchsheel) aimed at ensuring non-interference in China's fragile regions of Tibet and Xinjiang. Quite in line, neither the local communist parties nor ...
The Anthropological Survey of India launched the People of India project (POI) on 2 October 1985 to generate an anthropological profile of all communities of India, the impact on them of change and development process and the links that bring them together. As part of this all-India project the ethnographic survey of all communities of present day Punjab (95) was taken up in collaboration with local scholars. The results of the survey were discussed at the ...
The book is a pioneering exercise in the bio-anthropological study among the two lesser known scheduled tribes of Orissa, the Bathudis and Sountis. The field work based on empirical data was generated from 59 different villages of Mayurbhanj district and have been compared with the similar earlier studies of various tribal populations from the neighbouring states. It has been established that Bathudis and Sountis show closer affinities not only with each other ...
This book is an attempt to collate Indian perspectives on the multifaceted themes and sectors of China-Pakistan strategic cooperation. China-Pakistan ties have been a major obsession amongst Indian opinion and policy-makers. However, this obsession remains restricted to China's transfers of sensitive technologies while the essential backdrop that has sustained such a unique 'axis' has never been explored with sufficient rigour. Especially, given ...