Water remains a highly sensitive political issue in West Asia given the acute shortage in the region that has the world's second fatest growing population. Periodic flare-up of hostility among the riparian states over the distribution of the waters of the Trans-border Rivers has led many analysts to predict that the next war in West Asia will be over water. This book, however, attempts to develop an argument that hydro-politics in West Asia is not necessarily ...
Agricultural Marketing in India: Issues and Concerns
Uneven Growth in India presents a comprehensive collection of research studies that focuses on regional economic disparity, particularly intra-state disparities that have received relatively less attention in the literature. Together, this collection provides an overview of multiple dimensions of regional disparity, endogenising the ‘region’ in the social and sectoral disparity and points to its historical neglected by the state in public expenditure ...
While there are books that examine the relationship between Central Asia and India, or Central Asia and China or China and India, there are few books that examine the triangular relationship between what is a very significant macro-region within Asia. This book is a collection of papers presented at a national conference on Central Asia, China and India: Historical, Economic, Political and Cultural Relations organized in 2016. The historical links between China ...
India’s Foreign Policy: Continuity With Difference Under Modi Government
In last few years India’s foreign policy slowly turned ambiguous without having its strain of periodic strategic visions and white papers devoid of any published strategic doctrine. However, with the values that has remain ingrained in India, there have been no drastic change in the trend that decision makes have moulded India’s foreign policy in the last seven decades. It has worked to policy in the last seven decades. It has worked to strengthen the ...
Central Asia and South Asia: Economic, Developmental and Socio-Cultural Linkages
There is a wide consensus that the future economic development in India largely depends on the sufficient supply of fresh water. It is not only applied to the agricultural sector but also to the industrial sector. Meanwhile, growing households’ demand can’t be ignored where the quantity and quality are the concerned. Moreover, sufficient water supply is not merely an important factor in economic development, but also for the conservation and stability ...
