Ethnic Studies category: 6968 books
International Aid and China's Environment
Taming the Yellow Dragon
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
Rapid economic growth in the world's most populous nation is leading to widespread soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and the depletion of vital natural resources. The scale and severity of environmental problems in China now threaten the economic and social foundations of its modernization.
Using...
Southeast Asia and the Civil Society Gaze
Scoping a Contested Concept in Cambodia and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
As developing countries with recent histories of isolation and extreme poverty, followed by restoration and reform, both Cambodia and Vietnam have seen new opportunities and demands for non-state actors to engage in and manage the effects of rapid socio-economic transformation.
This book examines...
Nation-state and Minority Rights in India
Comparative Perspectives on Muslim and Sikh Identities
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The blood-laden birth-pangs of the Indian "nation-state" undoubtedly had a bearing on the contentious issue of group rights for cultural minorities. Indeed, the trajectory of the concept ‘minority rights’ evolved amidst multiple conceptualizations, political posturing and violent mobilizations...
Islam and Nationalism in India
South Indian contexts
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Islam in India, as elsewhere, continues to be seen as a remainder in its refusal to "conform" to national and international secular-modern norms. Such a general perception has also had a tremendous impact on the Muslims of the Indian subcontinent, who as individuals and communities have...
The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen
Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500-1900
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies
The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical...
Devotional Islam in Contemporary South Asia
Shrines, Journeys and Wanderers
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The Muslim shrine is at the crossroad of many processes involving society and culture. It is the place where a saint – often a Sufi - is buried, and it works as a main social factor, with the power of integrating or rejecting people and groups, and as a mirror reflecting the intricacies of a society.
The...
by Partha S Ghosh
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
A comprehensive assessment of the economic, social and cultural impacts of migration within South Asia
This book addresses the concept of migration with the aim of building theory as well as drawing from existing theories to understand South Asian realities. It highlights the less-explored...
Transcultural Encounters between Germany and India
Kindred Spirits in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Providing a comprehensive survey of cutting edge scholarship in the field of German--Indian and South Asian Studies*,* the book looks at the history of German--Indian relations in the spheres of culture, politics, and intellectual life. Combining transnational, post-colonial, and comparative approaches,...
Voices from the Shifting Russo-Japanese Border
Karafuto / Sakhalin
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In the nineteenth century, as the Russian empire expanded eastwards and the Japanese empire expanded onto the Asian continent, the Russo-Japanese border became contested on and around the island of Sakhalin, its Russian name, or Karafuto, as it is known in Japanese. Then in the wake of the Second...
Asian Regionalism and Japan
The Politics of Membership in Regional Diplomatic, Financial and Trade Groups
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
This book explores the essential nature of regionalism by conducting a comprehensive analysis of more than 30 regionalist proposals made by Japan and other Asian countries throughout the post-war period.
Shintaro Hamanaka examines the whole post war period and covers all regionalist proposals...
by Scott Flower
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Scholars of religion and policy makers may be surprised at the changes occurring on the second largest island of the world that straddles one of the most Christianised and least Christianised areas of the world. This book provides an accurate and deeper understanding of the nature of Islam in Papua...
The Tibetan Government-in-Exile
Politics at Large
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
This book provides a detailed account of the structure and political strategies of the Tibetan government-in exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), in northern India. Since its founding in 1959, it has been led by the 14th Dalai Lama who struggles to regain the Tibetan homeland. Based on...
India's Princely States
People, Princes and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices, gender issues, the states’ military contribution...
Race, Class, and Power
Ideology and Revolutionary Change in Plural Societies
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Examining in detail the apparently inexorable polarization of society in such countries as Rwanda, Algeria, and South Africa, the author questions whether current theories correctly explain the past or offer adequate guides for the future. In their place he puts forward an alternative neo-Durkheimian...