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  • Separatist Violence in South Asia

    A comparative study

    by Matthew J. Webb ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics
    Since decolonization began in the late 1940s, a series of often lengthy and destructive separatist insurgencies have imposed severe financial, economic and human costs upon the states of South Asia. Whereas previous analyses of these conflicts have typically focussed upon the parent state or separatist group as the relevant unit of analysis, this book adopts a broader framework, arguing that ... Read more

    $63.20 CAD

  • Kashmir's Right to Secede

    A Critical Examination of Contemporary Theories of Secession

    by Matthew J. Webb ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    A separatist conflict has been ongoing in India-administered Kashmir since 1989. Focusing on this region, this book critiques the existing normative theories of secession, and offers a comprehensive examination of the right of sub-groups to secede.The book looks at the different accounts of the moral right to secede, and assesses both the theories themselves as well as the claims of those who want ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • India, Pakistan, and Democracy

    Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths

    by Philip Oldenburg ...
    The question of why some countries have democratic regimes and others do not is a significant issue in comparative politics. This book looks at India and Pakistan, two countries with clearly contrasting political regime histories, and presents an argument on why India is a democracy and Pakistan is not. Focusing on the specificities and the nuances of each state system, the author examines in ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • The Promise of Power

    The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan

    by Maya Tudor ...
    Under what conditions are some developing countries able to create stable democracies while others have slid into instability and authoritarianism? To address this classic question at the center of policy and academic debates, The Promise of Power investigates a striking puzzle: why, upon the 1947 Partition of British India, was India able to establish a stable democracy while Pakistan created an ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Politics of the Governed

    Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

    by Partha Chatterjee ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On the one hand, the idea of popular sovereignty has gained wide acceptance. On the other hand, the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Federalism in South Asia

    by Mahendra Prasad Singh, Veena Kukreja ...
    This book is one of the first in-depth and systematic studies on the functioning and aspiring federations of South Asia. It examines how federal dynamics in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are impinged on by the nature of their specific constitutions; their societal, political and cultural fabrics; composition of power elites and ruling classes; structures of political economy and market; ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Of the Nation Born

    The Bangladesh Papers

    Edited by Hameeda Hossain, Amena Mohsin ...
    Series series Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia
    The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the South Asian region, a vast body of research on this important, and yet silenced, subject. Six country volumes (one each on Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and two on India, as well as two standalone ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Re-Interrogating Civil Society in South Asia

    Critical Perspectives from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh

    Edited by Peter B. Andersen, Rubya Mehdi, Amit Prakash ...
    This book offers an overview of the history and development of civil society in three major nations of South Asia – Pakistan, India and Bangladesh – from colonial times to the present. It examines the liberalization of civil society since the 1980s, the needs it created for civil action, the professionalization of civil society organizations, and the extent to which civil society may benefit ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Colonial Lives of Property

    Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership

    by Brenna Bhandar ...
    Series series Global and Insurgent Legalities
    In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism. Examining both historical cases and ongoing processes of settler colonialism in Canada, Australia, and Israel and Palestine, Bhandar shows how the colonial appropriation of indigenous lands depends upon ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Gendered Citizenship

    Historical and Conceptual Explorations

    by Anupama Roy ...
    Adopting a historical conceptual approach, this book examines the gendering of citizenship. It argues that through successive historical periods, `becoming a citizen has involved a gradual extension of the status, to more and more persons and groups, in particular, women, which resulted in a more inclusive and egalitarian structure. But, the promise of equal membership in the politcal community ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Revolutionary Womanhood

    Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt

    by Laura Bier ...
    "Laura Bier unpacks the complicated dynamics and legacy of an historical moment in which women were understood to be crucial to modern nation-building." —Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary Womanhood analyzes feminism as a system of ideas and political practices, international in origin ... Read more

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  • Citizenship and Its Discontents

    An Indian History

    by Niraja Gopal Jayal ...
    Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD