Regional Studies

A compact and useable introduction to the understanding of contemporary Sudan, and a convenient reference work. WINNER: 2012 CHOICE Outstanding Ac...

Using Delhi’s contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the ci...

New Welfare Policy and Democratic Politics in India offers an analysis of India’s welfare policy during the last couple of decades. It looks at how...

Before Bharathi, Tamil writers considered writing in a way readers cannot understand as a mark of punditry. It was almost a tradition to employ a d...

Before Bharathi, Tamil writers considered writing in a way readers cannot understand as a mark of punditry. It was almost a tradition to employ a d...

This book focuses on the economic challenges India has been facing since its independence in 1947. It traces the country’s journey of economic tran...

This book examines the process of domination of a civilization and the creation of a vast empire by the British in India in the late nineteenth and...

This book explores the dominant constructions of childhood as perceived by children and adults in contemporary Indian society. It unveils the every...

Analyses the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe, SWAPO in Namibia and the ANC in South Africa and to what extent their promises of democracy have been effected in...

Drawing on evidence from eight case studies from across three Asian subregions, this volume highlights the distinctive features of Asian populism i...

How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its peopleSince 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ha...

This book is an engaging introduction to the complex religious tradition of Hinduism. Central to its focus is demonstrating the fundamental diversi...