With the restoration of multi-party democracies in Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan (Pakistan has recently returned to military rule) and India and Sri Lanka being the democracies of long standing: South Asia has now emerged as a region having an extraordinary democratic environment. The present volume consists of the papers written by eminent scholars such as Professor Anirudha Gupta Professor S.K. Jha and Dr. B.C., Upreti on the various facets of democracy in the South Asia in general and India and Nepal in particular. The volume will be of great use for those scholars who are interested in the theoretical and operational aspects of democracy in South Asia.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M.D. Dharamdasani
Dr. M.D. Dharamdasani is working as Professor of Political Science & Director, Centre for the Study of Nepal since October 1994 and as Co-ordinator, Japanese Studies since July 1999 at Banaras Hindu University. After a brilliant academic career, he joined the University of Rajasthan as Assistant Professor in January 1973 and did his Ph. D. in Political Science from the same University. He joined B.H.U. un 1981 as Reader in Political Science. Dr. Dharamdasani has completed number of Research Projects sponsored by the U.G.C. and the Centre such as Nepal and the Super Powers and Dynamics of Foreign Aid in South Asia. Presently, he is working on “Japan’s Attitude Towards SAARC.†Dr. Dharamdasani has been the convenor of the number of national and international Seminars and has number of publications to his credit which includes India-Nepal partnership and South Asian Resurgence, Multi-Party Democracies in South Asia, contemporary South Asian Resurgence, Multi-Party Democracies in South Asia, contemporary South Asia, Sri Lanka: An Island in Crisis etc. He is also editor of Indian Journal of Nepalese Studies & Journal of Japanese Studies. His name has been included as outstanding scholar in “Who is Who in the World†published by the Marques of the United States and also as Man of the Year, 2002 by Bibliographic Institute, U.S.A.
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