Politics and Current Affairs

About the Book E-Governance as a field of study is relatively new when considered within the broader historical context of US democracy. The advent...

About the Book Millions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-...

About the Book The US-India nuclear deal, popularly known as the 123 Agreement, announced by George W. Bush and Manmohan Singh on 18 July 2005, was...

About the Book In this wide-ranging and incisive collection, Peter Gowan traces the contours of the world order that emerged after the end of the C...

Variations in ceramics are culturally significant. These are an expression of the functions that they are meant to perform, the identity of a commu...

Medicine and Integration of Frontier Tribes: The British and After in Arunachal Pradesh traces the use of medicine as an instrument of diplomacy in...

Diving into an unusually positive case study from India, Patching Development shows how development programs can be designed to work. How can devel...

The severe setback to India’s polity during the period 2018–21 is distinct and unprecedented. It is inaccurate and erroneous to describe this phase...

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Nationhood, Social Justice and Unequal Transformations: Essays for K.R.Narayanan is a commemorative volume consisting of lectures delivered at the ...

From solar panels to synthetic biology, an accessible-yet-authoritative overview of how climate change, the global Covid-19 pandemic, and emerging ...

India's Ministry of Home Affairs, with its striking durability, and ability to adapt to the transition from colonial rule to post-colonial governan...

Why has global governance largely failed to effectively tackle some of the most pressing global environmental challenges of our time?

This book brings together a unique team of academics and practitioners to analyse interests, institutions, and issues affecting and affected by the...

Nowhere in India is contemporary politics and visions of 'the political' as diverse, animated, uncontainable, and poorly understood as in Northeast...

In recent years, contract farming has received much attention in the literature, and is touted as a means to engage small farmers in high value agr...

This volume looks back at the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 through contemporary accounts and scholarly reflections. Organized into five parts, the ...

The precarity of democratic order In contemporary times needs no underlining. Crisis of Liberal Deliberation addresses this Issue from a novel pers...

Xi Jinping has proven to be one of the most transformative political leaders of the twenty-first century. After a long career that began at the vil...

One might say that the womb of death—the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonization—gave birth to Black populations. Taking this observation as her ...

The region and people of Kashmir have been at the centre of processes that transformed South Asia after the two World Wars and the collapse of colo...

The COVID-9 pandemic has generated human suffering and economic devastation across the world – but these reflect not just the impact of the disease...

Mainstream economics invariably sees capitalism as an isolated and closed system. In this path-breaking book, authors argue that this is both histo...

Several months after a 2014 operation in the Gaza Strip, fifty-three Israeli Defense Forces combatants and combat-support soldiers were awarded mil...

This book strives to understand India's approach to global governance by way of systematically considering three potential factors - ideas, interes...

A Foot in the Door is the culmination of research undertaken in the rural panchayats of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, and brings the voices of Dalit wome...

Billionaires in World Politics shows how the privatization of politics assumes a new dimension when billionaires wield power in world politics, whi...

Never before have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomou...

Multilinguality gained a new impetus in North India with the influx of West Asian Muslim communities around the thirteenth century. Over a period o...

Civilian control over the military is widely hailed as one of the major successes of India's democracy. Because it is so rare, especially among pos...

Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituen...

The United States national-security establishment is vast, yet the United States has failed to meet its initial objectives in almost every one of i...

In the 21st century, the Indo-Pacific region has become the new centre of the world. The concept of the 'Indo-Pacific', though still under construc...

Why are some multiethnic countries more prone to civil violence than others? This book examines the occurrence and forms of conflict in multiethnic...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

M.A. Jinnah entered politics as a congressman and as a nationalist. While being in the Congress, Jinnah joined the Muslim League in 1913. It was in...

Examining the relationship between sedition and liberal democracies, particularly in India, this book looks at the biography of sedition laws, its ...

With the demolition of the Babri Masjid and subsequent riots of the late 1980s and 1990s in Uttar Pradesh, the period that followed appeared relati...

From Haryana to Gujarat to Maharashtra, numerous Indian states have been witness to protests by backward classes pressing for quotas and reservatio...

India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth-century decolonization, punched above their weight in global politics in...

Considered ‘the most articulate and persuasive spokesman’ for the developing world in the twentieth century, renowned economist Mahbub ul Haq (1934...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why?In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that diff...

Resource exploitation in the form of land-grabbing has become a major debate worldwide. Based on extensive field research conducted at the India-Pa...