Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies
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The essays deal with issues like pan-Asianism, reform movements across Asia, routes and roads, infrastructural development and technological advancement, leadership and legitimacy, governance and institutions and the rise of China. They examine the performance of Asia in various spheres and contrast the Asian experience: economic growth and emergence of India and China as economic giants on the one hand and struggling economies, poor infrastructure, unequal ...
This compendium of 17 papers attempts to analyse the different political dimensions of Afghanistan. Critically examining the functioning of the present political arrangement in Afghanistan, it gazes into the possible alternative political scenarios, factoring in the role of various stakeholders such as the different ethnic groups, the insurgents, the warlords, and the traditional political institutions in Afghan society.
Also it discusses options like federalism ...
This volume emerged out of a search for scholarship that has studied connectivity between South and Central Asia from a variety of perspectives. Geographically and culturally, the vision that India has had of the region she referred to as Central Asia is of a space extending across China westward upto the Aral Sea and including within it Balkh, Bukhara and Samarkand. The Indian fascination with the region extends to various levels as this is the region out of ...
Within the revised format of Eurasian studies, prime attention has been given not merely to how Eurasia's regions positioned themselves in the context of post-Soviet political transition but also how these regions reinvented themselves through a re-envisioning of spatial categories like Slavic Eurasia, Central Eurasia, Central Asia, Inner Asia, etc. with centuries-old and millennia-old time scales. The significance of historical interludes has been emphasised and ...
The first education minister of India and one of the foremost freedom fighters, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was also a scholar and philosopher. A dynamic individual and a Bharat Ratna awardee with multiple facets to his personality, why then has his vision been cast aside in contemporary India?
Azads beliefs synthesized the best of Arabic, Iranian and Indian civilizations, argues Hameed, while investigating how he has been erroneously depicted only as the Muslim face ...
A result of interactions with scholars of institutes in South-east Asia, the volume intends to examine areas of academic research and policy research n relations between India and South-east Asia. With information on various on institutes in the region, it focuses on India’s engagement with South-east Asia. With articles and country reports on Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia, the publication analyses the significance if historical cultural ties ...
This book seeks to trace and document the status of human security in Afghanistan. Realizing the sensitivity of the life of the people of Afghanistan, it focuses on the alternative solutions available to construct the notion of security for Afghanistan in Asian countries.
It takes a close look at the role and condition of economic security, health security, environmental security, personal security, community security, political security, food security and health ...
Contributors to the volume study various facets of the energy scenario including economic, political, technological, national, regional and global strategies concerning energy. Taking into consideration concepts like energy security and the working of energy diplomacy, they examine how strategising of energy is linked to domestic and foreign policies of nations or regions and they are futuristic in their character as strategies have a long-term perspective. The ...
The volume is concerned with the development of the relations of Russia with the newly-independent sovereign states of Central Asia in the post-Soviet, post-Cold War era. Arguing that unlike the situation in the Tsarist past, Russia has been trying to engage the Central Asian Republics (CARs) in multifarious ways. It focuses in-depth on Russia’s foreign policy towards the CARs and relations between Russia and the CARs especially in the areas of security, ...
Since the emergence of post-Soviet state in the Eurasian space there has been considerable reflection on the role that the state has played in the local and gobal arenas. Transformations from being part of the 'Sovite' of independent existance has meant state involvement in the forging of new nations out of disparate identities based on the criteria of national languages, the reinterpretation of histroical events, depiction of personality-centric themes, the ...
It is a scholarly analysis of political and religious history of Bangladesh from 1952 to 2004. The book may be found useful by researchers, archivists and readers having interest in South Asia.
The eight northeastern states that constitute the borderland of India have been the victims of geography, history and politics. It is a land locked region in South Asia like Nepal and Bhutan and had traditional cultural and trading links with the neighboring countries of Southeast Asia. But the normal connectivity with their natural allies were seriously disrupted due to the chequered history of the region full of internecine skirmishes and conflicts jeopardizing ...
Every region and religion has a custom made calendar that reflects the diversity of culture and tradition it represents. A very distinctive feature of the traditional Meitei society of Manipur is that it has a periodic series of rites and ceremonies based on ancient religious traditions concerning almost every month of the Meitei Calendar year. The book focuses on the naming of the months as well as the rites and rituals being performed in these twelve months ...