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This book consists of essays based on papers presented at the fifth International conference of the Association for the study of Australasia in Asia (ASAA) organised in collaboration with Osmania University Centre for Internatioal Programmes(OUCIP), Hyderabad in Dec 2011. It offers wide-ranging perspectives on the Complex phenomenon of Globalisation which is explored from a variety of standpoints by contributors drawn from different countries. As the contributors ...
The Nation Across the World examines the present state of the nation in a variety of political formations and cultural locations around the world--from smaller but no less complex nations such as Fiji, Singapore, and Trinidad, to larger former colonies such as Australia, India, Sri Lanka and South Africa, to former colonial powers such as Britain and Spain, and the one supernation of our day, the USA. In the process, a wide range of issues are explored, including ...
This volume, a selection of the essays presented at the Thirteenth Triennial Conference of ACLALS held in Hyderabad in 2004, examines some of the defining aspects of Indian Culture and its literary manifestations. The emancipatory appeal of belonging to a nation in this era of globalization, the varied discourses on the history and social dynamics of India and their impact on Indian people, the Diasporic literature of the writers of Indian Diaspora, and the ...
Determining the disparities between rural and urban areas is apparently more difficult than it appears since it is possible to redefine what is urban and what is rural. Governments in Asia use different definitions for urban areas and do not define rural areas, treating them as the undefined residual. An area is designated as "urban" when it crosses a certain population limit (for example, 5,000 inhabitants) or when its population density reaches to a ...