Manohar Publishers and Distributors: October 2012

30 October, 2012

Occupational Choices, Networks and Transfers : An Exegesis Based on Micro Data From Delhi Slums

By- Arup Mitra

This volume analyses occupation, earning, and standard of living of the low income households from slum clusters in Delhi, and lays emphasis on strategies and efforts initiated by the slum dwellers to cope with uncertainties they face. The role of informal institutions or networks in accessing information pertaining to the urban labour market, and in experiencing an upward mobility, constitutes an important dimension of the analysis. Transfer of resources—monestary and/or non-monetary—across individuals/households, which can be either based on altruistic behaviour or motivated by the principle of exchange (or strategic exchange) takes the central position in the analysis. This helps derivea the domain of public policy, which would not be in conflict with the existing institutions, and would emerge as supportive measures instead of appearing as direct interventions. Interspatial variations in economic activities performed in the city and their impact on the labour market in terms of physical segmentation, constitute the other major aspect that the study focuses on. Differences in occupational choices, incomes and consumption expenditure across seems in the broad context of intra-household inequality are dealt with. Finally, it reviews the past and ongoing programmes relating to urban poverty, and compares them with the policy directives following from the present study.

Arup Mitra is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. His area of research encompasses labour and welfare, urban development, industrial growth and productivity, infrastructure development, and gender studies.

ISBN 81-7304-483-X 2003 168p. Rs.340/Pounds 35

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Nuclear Stability in Southern Asia

By- P.R. Chari, Sonika Gupta and Arpit Rajain (eds)

Konrad Adenauer Foundation

India’s and Pakistan’s reciprocal nuclear tests in 1998 irrevocably altered the strategic situation in Southern Asia and sparked off a global debate on nuclear weapons, arms control and nuclear deterrence. The trilateral nature of the nuclear adversarial relation in the region, comprising the security concerns of China, India and Pakistan, presents a challenge to existing theories and practices of nuclear deterrence premised on dyadic structures. The security situation on the Indo-Pak border and its linkages with cross border terrorism has serious implications for nuclear deterrence in the region. The Kargil War, a conventional war fought under the nuclear shadow, has thrown up new challenges for Southern Asian nuclear stability. This volume discusses different aspects of nuclear weapons including doctrinal issues, nuclear confidence building, terrorism and its linkages with nuclear deterrence, and nuclear safety within the context of Southern Asia. The book taps into the vast experience of senior defence personnel involved in preparing India’s draft nuclear doctrine and senior policy and strategic analysts in the country to present a comprehensive debate on nuclear stability in the region.

P.R. Chari, former member of the Indian Administrative Service, is currently the Director of the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi. He has worked extensively on nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and Indian defense issues and has authored many books on these subjects.

Sonika Gupta is Research Officer at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies and a doctoral student at the Chinese Studies division, Centre for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

Arpit Rajain has been working as Research Officer in the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies since 1997 on WMD issues.

ISBN 81-7304-520-8 2003 222p. Rs.450/Pounds 40

26 October, 2012

Nuclear Risk Reduction Measures and Restraint Regime in South Asia : RCSS Policy Studies 25

By- Zafar Nawaz Jaspal

The stockpiles of nuclear fissile material in India and Pakistan continue to mount. Both countries are committed to strengthening their missile programmes. The defence strategies of both India and Pakistan—together with the problems posed by the unresolved Kashmir dispute, deep animosity and distrust between them—make South Asia a conflict-prone region. The nuclear deterrence versus non-proliferation debate does not mitigate the situation in the ongoing strategic competition between Indian and Pakistan. Nuclear Risk Reduction Measures and a Nuclear Restraint Regime in South Asia between India and Pakistan are practicable solutions of limiting the use of a nuclear conflict in the region. Both states have already signed some agreements, such as non-attack on each other’s nuclear installations. But new nuclear-related arrangements which may prove more effective in promoting trust are imperative, while leaving the nuclear deterrence of both states intact.

This book examines the prospects of ‘Nuclear Risk Reduction Measures and a Restraint Regime in South Asia’ which would minimize the risks of accidental, unauthorized, or inadvertent use of Indian and/or Pakistani nuclear weapons. It recommends effective barriers against the danger of loose nukes and facility-related problems. Furthermore, the book explains the nuclear perils in the South Asian strategic environment, along with possible solutions for viable nuclear risk reduction measures and a nuclear restraint regime in South Asia.

Zafar Nawaz Jaspal is Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan, where he teaches Strategic Studies, Arms Control, Disarmament, and Nuclear Proliferation. He is also visiting faculty at the Foreign Services Academy, Islamabad. Previously, Mr Jaspal was Research Fellow, Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad, and at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute. He has contributed chapters to books and published a number of journal articles on security issues in leading research journals in Pakistan and abroad. He research interests include the proliferation of nuclear weapons and missile systems (particularly in South Asia), strategic implications of ballistic missile defence systems, and arms control/ disarmament.

ISBN 978-81-7304-569-1 2004 114p. Rs.240/Pounds 12.99

No Strings Attached: India’s Policies and Foreign Aid 1947-1966

By- Gilles Boquérat

India made non-alignment the cornerstone of its foreign policy and opted for a self-reliant model of development whereby external financing was meant to play a marginal role. This uncompromising political credo, which resisted foreign interference, however, had to face harsh economic realities leading to a growing recourse to foreign aid, as well as to military assistance when threats to security began to escalate in the region. This book discusses the repercussions on India’s policies that the dependence on foreign aid might have had at the behest of a donor state. It also focuses on the factors that have motivated the United States and the Soviet Union in their aid policy to a country whose geo-strategic importance and whose human and natural resources constituted an important component of the Cold War. It also considers the reactions that these motivations gave rise to in India. This study relies extensively upon primary sources, offering a first hand insight into the decision-making process, with archival material drawn from American, British and French diplomatic records.

Gilles Boquérat holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Sorbonne. He is currently Head of Department of International Relations at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. He is also a member of the Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies), Paris. Dr. Boquérat has published a number of articles on India’s foreign policy in international journals as well as edited volumes. He is the co-editor of India in the Mirror of Foreign Diplomatic Archives (Manohar, 2003).

ISBN 81-7304-513-5 2003 432p. Rs.895/Pounds 60

22 October, 2012

Negotiating The Divine: Temple Religion and Temple Politics in Contemporary Urban India

By- Ursula Rao

The book investigates contemporary discourses on religion in urban India through the prism of Hindu temples. It is based on the material collected during extensive fieldwork in Bhopal between 1996 and 1998. Presenting and interpreting data of the history as well as the ritual, social and political life of two central goddesses temples, the author presents the first comprehensive study of Hindu temples as socio-religious institutions in the urban environment of contemporary India. She also addresses several issues of general importance: questions of changes in community life in urban India with reference to caste and religious communities; the role of traditions in a fast changing cultural environment; the problematic relationship between religion and politics in the political life of India and a critical assessment of discussions of subalternity and resistance. These discussions appear in a new light in a study that avoids the classical dichotomies of politics and religion, tradition and modernity, elite and subaltern. In a detailed analysis of the religious/political practices and reflexive processes of a broad range of people the author shows how discourses are interconnected and dynamically re-created in practice.

Ursula Rao is lecturer in Anthropology at the University Halle, Germany. Her areas of interests are: ritual studies, the relationship bween religion and politics and the anthropology of cultural performances. Most recently she has started a study on the production of news through journalistic practices, with field research located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

ISBN 81-7304-515-1 2003 186p. Rs.500/Pounds 45

Multiple Marginalities: An Anthology of Identified Dalit Writings

Multiple Marginalities: An Anthology of Identified Dalit Writings

By- Badri Narayan and A.R. Misra (comp. & eds)

This volume compiles popular booklets representing grass-root dissent and protest of the dalit community in north India. Dalits have remained excluded not only from the economic and cultural mainstream of society but also from the ambit of the expression of their existential notions in the hierarchical order of the society. Despite their multiple sociological layers and also multiple expressions, it is the dominant expression produced in the urban and literary centres of India that has been subjected to academic exposition. And yet not much attention is given to the fact that there are multiple voices in print that are being assiduously transmitted in the newly emerged public spheres of this community. It ought to be noted that such voices of the dalits are mere expressions of their identity assertion, political mobilization and capture of political power through the negation of earlier notions of Brahminical history and sociology. An attempt has been made in this volume to compile a small part of this literature for those who wish to undertake an alternative exploration of the political culture of this emerging society in the modern context.

Badri Narayan is at present with the Faculty of Social History, G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad.

A.R. Misra is currently with the Faculty of Political Science, G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad.

ISBN 978-81-7304-555-4 2004 296p. Rs.600/Pounds 45

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Mountbatten’s Report on the Last Viceroyalty 22 March-15 August 1947

By- Lionel Carter (ed.)

This volume reproduces in full Mountbatten’s own account of the last five months of British rule in India based on reports he sent to London at the time. Written with disarming frankness, we witness the failure of Mountbatten’s initial attempts to secure independence on the basis of a united India. He then turned to some form of agreed partition and his eventual success was achieved after considerable feats of diplomacy. The figures of Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel and other key leaders loom large in this account. Mountbatten provides a valuable introductory historical survey and a chapter in which he draws up his conclusions. There are thirteen appendices providing the texts of key documents and an index of the persona involved in these momentous events.

Before becoming the last Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten played a major part in the defeat of Japan in the Second World War. He was Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia Command between 1943 and 1946. Here he was also responsible for preparing Burma for civilian rule. Mountbatten served as first Governor-General of the new Dominion of India and after he left India in June 1948 he held a number of senior posts. He was First Sea Lord in Britain between 1955 and 1959 and then became (until 1965) Chief of the U.K. Defence Staff.

ISBN 81-7304-516-X 2003 402p. Rs.850/Pounds 60

Missing Boundaries: Refugees, Migrants, Stateless and Internally Displaced Persons in South Asia

By- P.R. Chari, Mallika Joseph and Suba Chandran (eds)

South Asia has 14 per cent of the world’s refugee population and is the principal source and host of refugees. The causes behind the displacement—political instability, armed conflict, lack of resources and so on in South Asia and its immediate neighbourhood have not declined but, in fact, have been increasing; and the security threats posed by the refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) is set to increase, given the lack of resources and poor governance prevalent in the region. Yet, none of the countries in South Asia have signed any major convention or treaty at the international level in regard to refugees; nor have they any national legislation or regional framework to deal with these issues.

A comprehensive study focusing on the various dimensions of displacement in South Asia including refugees, migrants, stateless persons and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) was felt imperative by the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.

Acknowledging non-traditional sources of insecurity as being the cornerstone of human insecurity, the IPCS had commenced to focus on a range of non-miltary threats to security including Drug Trafficking, Terrorism, Refugees, Organized Crime, Governance and Environmental Issues. The current volume with specific focus on migration and displacement is a small step in that direction.

P.R. Chari, former member of the Indian Administrative Service, is currently Research Professor at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi. He has worked extensively on nuclear disarmament, non-proliferation and Indian defence issues and has authored many books on these subjects.

Mallika Joseph is Assistant Director at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi. Her research interests include landmines and IEDs, Naxalites, transnational crime and Interpol and has authored works on landmines and IEDs in South Asia.

D. Suba Chandran is Assistant Director at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi and currently is working on the Ford Foundation study on India’s Security Problematique. He has worked on Pakistan, Kashmir, Indo-Pak relations and suicide terrorism.

ISBN 81-7304-503-8 2003 222p. Rs.450/Pounds 40

Medieval Central Asia: Polity, Economy and Military Organization

(Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries)

By- Mansura Haidar

The volume is the first of its kind as no other work based on original sources and exclusively dealing with the above subject in such detail is available. Central Asia has remained to be a world apart though its institutions, administrative terminology, methods of warfare, pattern of handicrafts seem to flicker in many other civilizations. The wide spectrum of the study and varied contents of this book depict multifarious aspects of Central Asian history ranging from civil to military organization, tribal to settled, agrarian to artisan population and the life and activities of Naqshbandi saints in the state business. It further deals with political setup, changing notions of state craft, economic structure, system of taxation which go to make the medieval Central Asian life come alive.

Mansura Haidar is a well-known specialist on history and culture of Central Asia. She has been teaching Islamic History, History of Central and West Asia and medieval and modern Indian history at the Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University for the past thirty-eight years. She has a profound knowledge of Islamic history both in terms of vastness of sphere and span and her information is based on an indepth study of the original sources.

ISBN 978-81-7304-554-7 2004 523p. Rs.995/Pounds 70

19 October, 2012

Managing Water Scarcity: Experiences and Prospects

By- A. Vaidyanathan and H.M. Oudshoom (eds)

The essays in this collection discuss the sources and nature of water scarcity and conflicts in specific cases under diverse situations in India, Europe and the USA, the manner in which they have been handled, the mechanisms used and their effectiveness. The contributors, all experts from different disciplines and backgrounds, are knowledgeable and experienced in water and water management. Their papers were presented and discussed at a conference held under the joint auspices of the ICSSR and IDPAD. The participants included, besides the contributors, a wider group of engineers, economists, social scientists, environmentalists, lawyers and senior administrators. Many of them happened to combine social activism in water issues with their professional work. Though the publication comes six years after the seminar, events in the intervening period do not make a significant difference to the substantial issues raised or conclusions reached.

Scarcity and conflict over water, being an important issue in many parts of the world, provided a well-defined, concrete theme for a meaningful transdisciplinary dialogue. Exchange of experiences and views from different perspectives and in diverse situations helped participants see the issues in a broader perspective.

The editors’ introduction highlights the nature of issues involved, commonalities and differences across diverse situations, and different approaches to coping with scarcity and resolving conflicts. It also underscores the importance of coherent, multi-pronged action on several interrelated fronts (technological, legal, institutional and economic). A number of concrete and valuable practical suggestions for action and areas in which our knowledge needs strengthening through research emerges from the essays in this volume.

A. Vaidyanathan currently Emeritus Professor in the Madras Institute of Development Studies, has worked in the Indian Planning Commission, non-governmental research institutions, and also international organizations.

H.M. Qudshoom is a member of the UN Committee on Natural Resources, which advises Economical and Social Council (ECOSOC) on water related issues. Currently he is Emeritus Professor of the Delft University of Technology.

ISBN 81-7304-553-4 2004 434p. Rs.875/Pounds 60

Land System and Rural Society in Early India

Land System and Rural Society in Early India

By- Bhairabi Prasad Sahu (ed)

Land System and Rural Society in Early India highlights the growth and changing contours of historiography with regard to the agrarian history early India. As such it incorporates some significant early writings as well as contributions which represent research still very much is progress. The patterns of regional socio-economic transformation in the context of wider historical developments come through in many of these essays.

The introduction analyses historiographical trends and focuses on problems and issues, and flowing from it the areas and nature of controversies as well as on related themes.

The articles included here deal with aspects of rural settlements, the concept of village community, the problem of the ownership of land, agrarian change, the structure of rural society and rural unrest.

The other volumes in the series Readings in Early Indian History relate to trade, traders and networks of trade, urbanization, religion, technology and society, and women and the state in early India.

B.D. Chattopadhyaya is currently Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Bhairabi Prasad Shahu is Reader in the Department of History, University of Delhi.

ISBN 978-81-7304-295-9 2004 394p. Rs.250/Pounds 17.99

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Indo-Central Asian Relations

Mansura Haidar

Due to geographical proximity and close cultural affinity and for reasons of a long history of exchange of ideas, men and commodities between India and Central Asia, a concealed chain of common currents of culture and fascinating flickers of similarities of ethos are noticed in numerous forms.

At a time, when Central Asia is passing through a phase of reconnaissance and is constantly looking back and earnestly trying to search for its identity, it is interesting to note that every Central Asian State looks back to India for spinning the fabric of its historical and cultural splendour. It is here in India that most of men of different brands but of Central Asian origin showed their brilliance, acquired greatness, rose to prominence in India and some of them were even buried on its soil—be it Amir Khusrau, Mir Khwand, Haidar Dughlat, Bairam Khan, Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan, Mansur, Nadir and a horde of others. Nothing can better testify to the age old ties existing between India and Central Asia than the latter’s search for its cultural roots, its identity and discovery of the traces of its past glory on Indian soil.

A search into the inner recesses of Indian and Central Asian civilizations with all their distinct deposits of new and varied dynasties and their subsequent transformation along with their own shades of origin and fusion had been long over due and could indeed be a purposive venture. This book attempts to address some of the aspects of these longstanding close friendly and diplomatic relations.

Mansura Haidar, Chairpersons and Coordinator, Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, possesses a brilliant academic record. She is a distinguished and widely acknowledged scholar and has authored several books and numerous articles on Central Asian and Indian history. Having spent several years in Central Asia and with proficiency in various languages of the region, she could use the medieval historical material in its original form. Her well-documented researches therefore, carry an aura of authenticity and academic excellence.

ISBN 978-81-7304-508-0 2004 426p. Rs.875/Pounds 60

India’s Colonial Encounter: Essays in Memory of Eric Stokes

(2nd Revd. and Enlarged Edn.)

By- Mushirul Hasan and Narayani Gupta (eds)

The late Professor Eric Stokes conducted pioneering researches in certain areas of nineteenth-century South Asian history and established a lively scholarly tradition at Cambridge. The English Utilitarians in India (1959); The Peasant and the Raj (1968); and The Pesant Armed: The Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1978) represent major works of historical scholarship. In all his writings, as Chris Bayly tells us, the discovery of complexity and paradox had the wider purpose of warning against the danger of monolithic or dogmatic constructions of the past.

This volume reflects on certain themes which formed the bedrock of Eric Stokes’ historical
writings—History of Ideas, the 1857 upheaval, agrarian structure and peasant struggles. It is a major contribution to the existing historical literature on South Asia.

As one of the reviewers pointed out, ‘what the book has done, is to bring together a significant number of well-researched, empirically and analytically-sound papers. No mean achievement, perhaps, at a time when rigorous, professionally-competent historical scholarship is all too often dismissed as tainted by ‘positivism’ and insufficiently ‘theoretical’.

This revised and enlarged edition includes two essays by C.A. Bayly and Walter Hauser.

Mushirul Hasan (b. 1949), is Professor of History and Director of the Academy of Third World Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Having lectured widely across the US, Europe, Australia, as well as the subcontinent, Professor Hasan has help professorial fellowships at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi; the Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin; the Centre of Oriental Studies, Rome; the Centre of Indian Studies at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris.

Narayani Gupta teaches History at Jamia Millia Islamia.

ISBN 978-81-7304-536-3 2004 500p. Rs.795/Pounds 70

India in the Mirror of Foreign Diplomatic Archives

By- Max-Jean Zins and Gilles Boquerat (eds)

This book proceeds from the co-existence of Indian secrecy over its diplomatic records that stifles academic inquiry and the release of significant materials from foreign archives which offers the fascinating possibility of understanding India’s external policy through the primary sources of others. Words written by the American, British, French and Soviet diplomats does not just chronicle a quarter century of international politics; it helps to understand the driving themes of the bilateral relations, the respective expectations and the way India tried to pursue its national interest during the Cold War.

Max-Jean Zins is a senior researcher at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). He is presently attached to the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris, and is also a member of the Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, Paris.

Gilles Boquerat is currently the head of the Department of International Relations at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. He is also a member of the Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, Paris.

ISBN 978-81-7304-535-6 2004 138p. Rs.295/Pounds 35

18 October, 2012

History and Development of Prakrit Literature

By- J.C. Jain

History and Development of Prakrit Literature traces the important role played by Prakrit language and narrative literature in the development of Indian languages and literature. This is considered to be the first attempt ever, by any Indian or foreign scholar in this field.

This publication has been painstakingly, manually prepared by Dr. J.C. Jain after a detailed research of a wide range of Indian and foreign literary works, which has taken several years.

The manifold contributions of Prakrit in the field of Ardhamagadhi, Sauraseni, Maharastri and Paisachi language and literature, development of narrative literature in Maharastri, contributions in the field of Sanskrit poetics and drama have all been incorporated in this rare publication.

Dr. Jain has considered all the traditional views of ancient authors and grammarians and has compared them to those of the modern times, to enable to present a clear viewpoint to the readers.

Prof. Dr. Jagdish Chandra Jain (1909-1994), a legendary figure in the field of Indology, specifically Jainological and Prakrit studies, occupied the Chair in the Universities of Bombay (India), Peking (China) and Kiel (Germany). His lecture tour to most of the international universities of Europe, Soviet Union, USA, Canada and Latin America was a milestone of his efforts to bring the Indian wisdom in the practical grip of human society.

Besides an author of more than 80 books on a variety of subjects, he has contributed numerous research papers to Indian and foreign journals. One aspect of Dr. Jain’s versatile personality was his active participation in the freedom struggle of India and association with Mahatma Gandhi, Gurudeva Tagore and Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru. The Municipal Corporation of Mumbai, honoured him by naming the road of his residence after him and to keep his memory alive, the Government of India has released a commemorative postal stamp recently. He was the recipient of several national and international literary awards.

ISBN 978-81-7304-537-0 2004 520p. Rs.1095/Pounds 70

Globalization and the Developing Economies: Theory and Evidence

By- Aditya Bhattacharjea and Sugata Marjit (eds)

Universities in developing countries often face severe resource constraints, making it difficult for them to stock their libraries with the latest books and journals, and to attract and retain faculty who are abreast of current trends in research. In order to meet this perceived gap, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) funded a conference at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta, at which papers wee presented by specialists on various aspets of development. This volume comprises substantially updated and revised versions of those papers, in which the authors show how recent theoretical techniques and statistical analyses can illuminate a wide range of important issues in developing countries.

The volume begins with case studies of economic reforms in Russia, Korea and Malaysia, each in its own way an example of what can go wrong with simplistic prescriptions advocating either free markets or controls independent of the institutional context. These chapters lead into models of exchange rate behaviour and balance of payments crises, and area of contemporary concern. Other chapters examine recent theoretical treatments of international trade in relation to cumulative patterns of development and underdevelopment, international labour mobility and remittances. Two largely statistical chapters come up with findings that contribute new and disturbing insights to two long-running debates, one on the deterioration of developing countries’ terms of trade and the other on the weak kink between incomes and nutrition in India. A final chapter reviews various analytical perspectives on the family and fertility in developing countries.

Apart from acquainting readers with recent techniques and trends, the essays also point to possible directions for future research. The book should thus be of interest to teachers and students of economics and development.

Aditya Bhattacharjea, Reader, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.

Sugata Marjit, Professor, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta

ISBN 978-81-7304-545-5 2004 234p. Rs.475/Pounds 40

16 October, 2012

Globalization and Local Development in India : Examining the Spatial Dimension

Globalization and Local Development in India : Examining the Spatial Dimension

Frédéric Landy and Basudeb Chaudhuri (eds)

This collective volume brings together the interdisciplinary work of a group of French social science scholars who have specialized on India. By focusing on the different levels or ‘scales’ of development—local, regional, national and international—of India in the last few decades, multidisciplinary perspectives from geography, economics, anthropology, sociology, agronomy and history try to highlight the complexity of the Indian development process, in particular the fact that India’s development cannot be pinpointed down as occurring at one single level.

Most of the essays are based on fieldwork in India, and the introduction raises methodological and conceptual issues on globalization from a specifically French social science perspective. This book will be useful to students and researchers who are interested in both sectoral studies and also a wider social science perspective on India development, with a very realistic appraisal of globalization and its impact on India. The long-term perspectives that are highlighted in this book will enable both scholars and a wider audience to evaluate the strengths and the problems that face India’s economy and its vibrant democracy.

Frédéric Landy, Associate Professor of Geography, Laboratoire Geotropiques, University of Paris X-Nanterre, and Research Associate, Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS), Paris.

Basudeb Chaudhuri, Associate Professor of Economics, Centre for Reserch in Economics and Management, University of Caen, Normandy, and Research Associate, Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS), Paris.

ISBN 978-81-7304-540-0 2004 250p. Rs.625/Pounds 45

From Hydaspes to Kargil: A History of Warfare in India from 326 BC to AD 1999

From Hydaspes to Kargil: A History of Warfare in India from 326 bc to ad 1999

By- Kaushik Roy

Warfare has determined the fate of India from the dawn of civilization. Battles like Tarain and Panipat have altered the course of history. The army has always been one of the biggest government employers and the military constituted the principal item of expenditure for the state.

Nevertheless, military history remains marginal within the academic discourse. In this volume the aim is to show the interaction between war as an institution and society. Along with society, ecology remains a crucial integer in shaping the scope and mode of warfare. A long duree approach along with cross-cultural comparisons is undertaken for understanding the specificity of Indian military history. This book is a work of synthesis and argues that several Military Revolutions had occurred outside India since the time of Alexander. None the less such developments by themselves were unable to guarantee military success to the foreigners due to specific conditions within the Indian theatre of warfare. Only those powers which were able to synthesize the elements of Military. Revolutions with the traditional Indian System of Warfare, were able to dominate the subcontinent. This book also contains guidelines for contemporary military management. Hence it is hped that this volume will not only be useful from a strictly academic perspective but would also be of interest to the policy makers.

Kaushik Roy is a Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library.

ISBN 978-81-7304-543-1 2004 284p. Rs.595/Pounds 45

14 October, 2012

Existence, Identity and Mobilization: The Cotton Millworkers of Bombay, 1890-1919

Existence, Identity and Mobilization: The Cotton Millworkers of Bombay, 1890-1919

By- Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay

This work is concerned with the early history of labour in the Bombay cotton textile industry. It takes into account various facets of workers’ lives—economic as well as social, cultural and political—and emphasizes both the uniqueness and commonness of the workers’ experiences with relation to the rest of the population. The author begins with a structural outline of the industry, its history and demographic specificities. The long hours of work, the struggle to reduce them, ventilation, wages, housing, liquor consumption, diseases and indebtedness are discussed with reference to various points of view—of workers, of millowners, of colonial officials of social workers and of nationalists. Numerous citations of workers’ descriptions of their working and living conditions are given both to counter the official versions as also to augment them.

The author then goes on to analyse the formation of the certain crucial identities in the modern, colonial and urban context. These were related to religious community, nationalism and class. All these were generated as a result of modern political ideas and movements sometimes based on pre-modern identities and resulted in three biggest mobilization during this period—the communal riots of 1893, the nationalist mobilization in 1908 and the protests and small mobilizations around economic issues culminating in the general industrial strike of 1919.

The chapter dealing with the communal riots of 1893 incorporates official debates and characterizations of the riots, along with the agitations by the cow-protection societies and the ideological assumptions behind census mechanisms. The nationalist mobilization is discussed with reference to the famous instance of workers’ strikes and protests against Tilak’s incarceration in 1908. The interplay of religious and nationalist sentiments, and of myth-making with conditions of life and work, is carefully developed into a complex explanation. Finally, the study deals with the emergence of class identity through the first general industrial strike on economic issues. The present work tries to explore how far these identities were ingrained in the consciousness of the workers.

Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay is a Reader of History in the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi.

ISBN 978-81-7304-529-5 2004 238p. Rs.495/Pounds 40

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Essays on Religion, Literature and Law

By- Günther-Dietz Sontheimer, Heidrun Brückner, Anne Feldhaus and Aditya Malik (eds)

The present volume contains fourteen selected papers in English by the late G.-D. Sontheimer and follows up on his earlier volume King of Hunters, Warriors, and Shepherds: Essays on Khandoba (Delhi, 1997). The articles chosen for publication here span a wide thematic and temporal range and will be of interest to students of Hinduism. The volume contains essays on the juristic personality of Hindu deities, the history and religion of pastoral groups in the Deccan and the interdependence of folk and scriptural religion. The articles reflect Sontheimer’s multidisciplinary approach, combining the methodologies of philosophy, anthropology, history, archaeology, epigraphy and iconography. Three other articles illustrated by over a hundred photographs, focus on hero- and sati-stones of the Deccan and Western India. Sontheimer identified the worship of heroes and satis as an important element of folk religion. He analyses the memorial stones in the context of other historical, social and religious references, physical ecology and literary sources. Yet another set of articles deals with aspects of oral literature. Two papers can be considered building blocks for a model of Hinduism that was finally worked out in ‘Hinduism—The Five Components and their Interaction’ (1989), the article which concludes the present volume.

The two volumes of Sontheimer’s collected papers are complemented by a memorial volume entitled In the Company of Gods which is being published simultaneously by the same editors.

Günther-Dietz Sontheimer (1934-92) taught History of Religions and Philosophy of Religions and Philosophy of South Asia, traditional Hindu Law, and Marathi language and literature at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg. He was a scholar of Indian folk culture, especially the oral traditions, religion and customs of pastoral communities in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

Heidrun Brückner is Professor of Indology and South Asian Studies at the University of Würzburg.

Anne Feldhaus is Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University.

Aditya Malik is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand.

ISBN 978-81-7304-521-9 2004 486p. Rs.750/Pounds 65

Environment and Livestock in India: With a Comparative Study of the Indian and US Dairy Systems

Environment and Livestock in India: With a Comparative Study of the Indian and

US Dairy Systems

By- S.N. Mishra and A.K. Dikshit

This book presents the first comprehensive study of the national and global environmental effects of India’s livestock production system. The first few chapters provide a descriptive account of India’s livestock biodiversity as determined by environmental conditions, modes of livestock farming, chief features of mixed livestock farming integrated with agriculture, and its direct and indirect linkages with environment. The authors have also formulated an environmental model of the livestock production system in an input-output framework. Environmental effects are shown to occur on both sides of the system. The model should be of interest to environmental scientists and economists.

Based on the model the book provides estimates of greenhouse gases (methane) emission from cattle and buffaloes, carbon dioxide emission prevented due to animal energy use in agriculture arising out of fossil-fuel saving, arable land area saved by recycling agricultural by-products as animal feed, as also from during cake as a source of biofuel, and the saving of chemical fertilizers by using during as manure. The authors then value these positive environmental contributions in rupee terms. Interestingly, they conclude that the sum of these values is much more than the value of output of India’s livestock sector as a whole.

Finally, the book compares the environmental effects of the Indian dairy production system with that of the US. This comparison is particularly addressed to environmentally concerned readers in the developed world.

Dr. S.N. Mishra (b. 1935) is a well known name for his pioneering contributions to economics of livestock in India.

Dr. A.K. Dikshit is presently an Associate Fellow at Livestock Research and Conservation Centre, Society for Economic and Social Research (SESR), Delhi. He has published a number of research papers in journals on various topics relating to livestock

ISBN 978-81-7304-563-9 2004 196p. Rs.500/Pounds 35

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Elite Perceptions in Foreign Policy: Role of Print Media in Influencing India-Pakistan Relations 1989-1999

RCSS Policy Studies 26

By- Smruti S. Pattanaik

The task of educating people on foreign-policy issues is largely performed by the elite. Although people in India and Pakistan have a keen interest in the furtherance of bilateral relations, various intricacies of the relations are not known to the masses. It is the elite who inform the masses regarding various issues and the existing challenges to their resolution. This prepares people to be more amenable to changing circumstances and appreciate solutions that strengthen peace in the region. In this context the English language newspapers role is crucial in making the views and opinions expressed accessible to a wider audience thereby generating well-informed opinions that act as crucial inputs in foreign policy making. The present study focuses on the entire gamut of Indo-Pak relations post-1989 based on the content analyses of five English language newspapes each from India and Pakistan. It reflects the trends in bilateral relationship and how elite in both the countries have prioritized various bilateral issues and discussed possible solutions on each issue.

It also reveals the parameter of mistrust and apprehensions within which opinions are conceived and articulated. What generates hope and optimism in the topsy-turvy path of Indo-Pak relations is the convergence of realization on both sides that war is not a solution and negotiation, however tedious, is the only path to peace and development. This study encapsulates that with every setback and pessimism there is a reinvigorating new dynamism in building peace and renewed attempts are tirelessly made to reach out to each other.

Smruti S. Pattanaik, Ph.D, is Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. Her area of specialization is security and foreign policy issues in South Asia with special focus on Indo-Pak security relations, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her other areas of research include migration and refugees issues. Dr Pattanaik has contributed to journals and books extensively in India and abroad. She is currently a recipient of the Asia Fellowship 2003 and is researching on ‘State Formation in South Asia: Role of Identity and Nationalism in the Making of Pakistan and Bangladesh’. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Department of International Relations, Dhaka University, Dhaka, and is also attached to Substainable Development Policy Institute (SDP), Islamabad as a Visiting Research Fellow for conducting research on the above-mentioned topic.

ISBN 978-81-7304-577-6 2004 190p. Rs.350/Pounds 12.99