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  • Modern South Asiaby Sugata Bose; Ayesha Jalal

    Routledge 1998; US$ 28.95

    This is a social, economic, political and cultural history of modern South Asia from 1700 to the present. In a work of synthesis and interpretation, the authors offer an understanding of the sophisticated historiography of this area. more...

  • Pakistan in Crisisby Ashok Kapur

    Routledge 1991; US$ 168.00

    An historical and comparative analysis of the policies and methods of Pakistan's leaders, showing the involvement of the army in political matters, this is an important book concerned with the recurring political problems of Pakistan. more...

  • Kashmir Questionby Sumit Ganguly

    Frank Cass 2003; US$ 63.95

    Few bilateral conflicts have proven as resistant to resolution as the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. What explains the tenacity of this dispute? The answer is complex and goes to the very basis of state-construction in South Asia. India, which had been created as a civic polity, initially sought to hold on to this Muslim-majority state to demonstrate its secular credentials.1 Pakistan, in turn, had laid claim to Kashmir because it had been created as the homeland for the Muslims of South Asia.2 After the break-up of Pakistan in 1971 the Pakistani irredentist claim to Kashmir lost substantial ground. If Pakistan could not cohere on the basis of religion alone it had few moral claims on its coreligionists in Kashmir. Similarly,... more...

  • Modern South Asiaby Ayesha Jalal; Sugata Bose

    Routledge 2003; US$ 37.95

    A new edition of this leading textbook that offers a rare depth of historical understanding of the politics, cultures and economies that shape the lives of more than a fifth of humanity. more...

  • Resistance and Control in Pakistanby Akbar S. Ahmed

    Routledge 2004; US$ 53.95

    In this extraordinary book one of the world's leading authorities on Islam explains what is happening in the Muslim world today and assesses the underlying causes. more...

  • Muslims, Mongols and Crusadersby Gerald R. Hawting

    RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 190.00

    The Bulletin of SOAS has, from 1917 onwards, published several articles on Medieval Middle Eastern History by leading historians of the region, and this volume reprints an important selection. more...

  • Bangladesh, India and Pakistanby Dr Kathryn Jacques; Timothy M. Shaw

    Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 1999; US$ 165.00

    This book provides a broad, analytical study of Bangladesh's relationship with India and Pakistan between 1975 and 1990. Bangladesh's role in South Asian international relations has tended to be overlooked and underestimated. The book reveals the complexity of the relationship between Bangladesh, India and Pakistan and challenges the biased and stereotypical views often encountered regarding Bangladesh's foreign policy. Considerable contemporary evidence is interpreted from a variety of perspectives: domestic, regional and extra-regional. The evidence is then used to assess the relative significance of these perspectives. more...

  • Limited Conflict Under the Nuclear Umbrellaby Ashley J. Tellis; C.Christine Fair; Jamison Jo Medby

    RAND Corporation 2002; US$ 9.95

    This report examines the views of India and Pakistan on the significance of Pakistan's foray into the Kargil-Dras sector in a limited war that has come to be known as the "Kargil conflict". The goal of the analysis is to assess both combatants' perceptions of the crisis. more...

  • Living Islamby Magnus Marsden

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 34.00

    What does it mean to be a good Muslim? Magnus Marsden challenges the assumption that Muslims in northern Pakistan unthinkingly support the teachings of radical Islamist movements. In this extraordinary insider account, he documents how Chitral Muslims practise their religion through a complex interaction between mind and spirit. more...

  • Pakistanby Yasmeen Niaz Mohiuddin

    ABC-CLIO 2006; US$ 55.00

    A comprehensive study of the history, politics, religion, economy, and culture of Pakistan?how it came to be, where it is, and where it is going. Pakistan is a critical ally?and a critical front?in the war on terror. Yet it is a country Americans know little about. more...