Archaeology and Buddhism in South Asia, Paperback - Himanshu Prabha Ray

This book traces the archaeological trajectory of the expansion of Buddhism and its regional variations in South Asia. The work underlines that rel...

This book examines India's transboundary river water disputes with its South Asian neighbours - Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. It explores...

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The contributors to Speaking of the Self interrogate the varied ways in which a diverse group of mostly female writers from South Asia-from a seven...

Reducere. Description"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflictin...

Patchwork States argues that South Asia's politics of violence, development and electoral competition are rooted in colonial and post-colonial stat...

Reducere. Buddhist temples in Southeast Asia are centers for the preservation of local artistic traditions. Chief among these are manuscripts, a vital source...

Reducere. This book explores how world historical processes, from changes in environment to the movement of peoples and ideas, have shaped and continue to sh...

In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-hist...

Presents key issues of tourism planning and development in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, Afghanistan, and Bhutan. Demons...

DescriptionPyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 3...

This Element explores religious nationalism in Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam and Sikhism and how it manifests in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. At the...

This book uses an innovative people-centred approach to the Kashmir problemto shed new light on why postcolonial partitions remain unfinished, and ...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hi...

Offers a look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia. This book looks at how social and natural landscapes are c...

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The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resour...

The Lost Samurai reveals the greatest untold story of Japan's legendary warrior class, which is that for almost a hundred years Japanese samurai we...

This book explores the state of community radio, a significant independent media movement that began about two decades ago, in different parts of S...

Expressive Morphology in the Languages of South Asia explores the intricacies of the grammars of several of the languages of the South Asian subcon...

This book is organized into chapters covering the key topics that comprise the core philosophy of Buddhism. The first two chapters go into great de...

With South Asia's growing energy demand, governments in the region are facing the short-term pressures of facilitating energy access, while attempt...

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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows started gaining traction in South Asia from the late 20th century onwards, when nations from the South Asian ...

This book documents and analyzes the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic through queer and feminist perspectives. A testament of dispossessions as wel...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Jack Meng-Tat (Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies, Assistant Professor of Histor...

Shows how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal chang...

Where the implications of war and peace are open to question, the possibility of change depends more on politics than economics. This book asks whe...

Reducere. Christianity in South and Central AsiaEdited by Kenneth R. Ross, Daniel Jeyaraj, and Todd M. JohnsonStudents, pastors, missionaries, and professors...

This volume examines urban South Asia through the ideas of neighbourhood and neighbourliness. With a focus on the affective socio-spatial and senso...

By exploring themes of fragility, mobility and turmoil, anxieties and agency, and pedagogy, this book shows how colonialism shaped postcolonial pro...

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. The volume explores the impact of humour ...

This interdisciplinary study provides a broad analysis of Sri Nalanda Mahavihara, the Buddhist learning center, during the first millennium AD. Dra...

An Authoritative study which explores how after years of fighting each other for South Asia, Russia and Britain started to lose their influence in ...