Politics and Current Affairs

Much seems to be going wrong with democracy at present. The global advance of democracy is stalled and, what is worse, cynicism about democracy is ...

Economic reforms implemented by the South Asian countries in the 1980s and 1990s had positive impacts on growth, and the region's share of world GD...

From the Oxus to the Indus explores the political and cultural history of the Indo-Iranian borderlands during the reign of the Bactrian and the Ind...

The book is a study of the current state of nationalist imagination in three states in India: Assam, West Bengal, and Delhi. It analyses the percep...

Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which mainly focuses on Hindi–Urdu debates, language politics and public...

Globalization, as commonly understood, limits policy choices of a nation by creating structural and institutional constraints. This leads to an imp...

Having survived a tumultuous period in its political history, the island state of Sri Lanka has one of the longest and most active traditions of po...

The book explores the interaction of political parties, bureaucracy, media, judiciary, and civil society groups in shaping policy in contemporary I...

This Handbook presents the first comprehensive study of policy analytical practices in comparative perspective. It explores emerging developments ...

As a field of rich theoretical development and practical application, political communication has expanded over the past fifty years. Since its dev...

The story of US - India relations is one of unfulfilled potential. Despite their common commitment to democracy, diversity and free markets, their ...

This volume, part of the Oxford International Relations in South Asia series, presents an overarching assessment of the contents, successes and fai...

The modern understanding of India has been structured around a standard set of oppositions—tradition versus modernity, faith versus secularism, bha...

Locating the politics of ethical collective identities in postcolonial South India, this work explores the ways in which different cultural communi...

There has been a significant consolidation of international norms to advance human protection objectives in current global politics. Yet, while civ...

International migration remains the orphan child of globalization. Rapid development from the last quarter of the twentieth century has resulted in...

This volume explores the relation between Islam and the state in Buddhist-majority Myanmar from both an empirical and a comparative perspective. It...

If the nation is an imagined community constructed through discourse, then belonging—the feeling of being part of that nation—can only arise when c...

Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity―perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunit...

As formidable instruments of war, they have changed the destinies of empires. As marauding crop raiders, they are despised. As an endangered specie...

The growing strategic partnership between India and Japan is one of the most important geopolitical developments of the twenty-first century. This ...

The ‘border states’ of India, especially in the Northeast, are now considered crucial to the conduct of India’s foreign policy in the region. There...

Nepal, because it was never directly colonized, is seen as something of an outlier on the subcontinent, but the country could not remain totally im...

The political discourse in India experienced a fundamental shift when the Sachar Committee Report revealed that despite the national and state gove...

Eleven economically backward hill states of India, sharing international boundaries, comprise the ‘Special Category States’. Being geographically i...

Divided We Govern investigates the rise and fall of the broader parliamentary left in modern Indian democracy, and the dynamics of national coaliti...

The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed the emergence of colonial modernity in Odisha through the genre of the periodical press...

Violence is usually located outside the democratic domain. Its recurrence is understood as a direct threat to democracy. Democracies are called upo...

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did you know that the latest delimitation of electoral constituencies in india was carried out after a hiatus of three decades? and that the next d...

How do we make sense of existence in a world that is constantly threatened by the destruction of ‘sense’? Exploring answers to this complex problem...

While handing over the first set of 12-digit unique identification numbers to ten tribal families of Tembhli, a dusty village tucked away in a far ...

Founded on unique research within India's Ministry of External Affairs, this book overturns much of the accepted wisdom about Indian diplomacy bein...

Over the past two decades, India has emerged as a rising power with growing economic capabilities and increased military prowess. Engaging the Worl...

The Towards Freedom series is an endeavour to document the years leading to Independence. It goes beyond the overtly political activities of the ti...

On December 29, 1918, the spartakus League, a Marxist revolutionary movement, rose up in Germany calling for an end to Class rule by the bourgeoisi...

Interrogating Politics and Society: Twentieth-Century Indian Subcontinent broadly addresses three themes relevant to South Asian history: communali...

During the Balkan Wars of 1912-13, concerned Muslims around India mobilized to dispatch three medical teams to treat wounded Ottoman soldiers. Amon...

Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad five of the largest Indian megacities are the economic and commercial engines for modern India. T...

An introduction to Franco Fortini, a Jewish communist and a major figure in postwar Italian intellectual life. It is against those who love to rush...

South Asia has acquired a strategic role and importance in the rapidly evolving global and political scenario. The present series analyses foreign ...

This volume explores the changing meanings that maritime India acquired during the early modern period owing to the frequent efforts of the Mughals...

Policy targets and political preferences are summarised in documents such as party manifestos. This book describes how these can be analysed quanti...

Proceedings Of The Indian National Congress: Volume 1: 1885 - 1889

Over the last few decades, globalization has had a visible effect on urbanization and migration patterns across much of Asia. Analyses of migration...

This book revisits historiography on nationalism by moving beyond the binary of elite and subaltern nationalism and focusing on the complex nature ...

This book offers a comprehensive framework for the study of Indian nationalism. Departing from unidimensional explanations of nationalism, it highl...