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Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 8  Number 3  November 1999

CONTENTS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

CALL FOR PAPERS
In memory of Neelan Tiruchelvam: minority rights in South Asia   

ARTICLES
Governance and the international development community: making sense of the Bangladesh experience
Imtiaz Ahmed   295

SAARC and subregional co-operation: domestic politics and foreign policies in South Asia
Md Nuruzzaman  311

India’s economic liberalization, interjurisdictional competition and development
Lawrence Sáez  323

Democracy, neoliberalism and growth with equity: lessons from India and Chile
Shalendra D. Sharma  347

Book Reviews 373

Over 30 books reviewed, including:
Origins of Nationality in South Asia: Patriotism and Ethical Government in the Making of Modern India l Micro Foundations of Bengal Communism l Democracy and Decentralisation in South Asia and West Africa. Participation, Accountability and Performance l Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard l Children, Law and Justice: A South Asian Perspective l Emerging Voices: South Asian American Women Redefine Self, Family, and Community l India and Pakistan: The First Fifty Years l The Politics of India’s Conventional Cinema: Imaging a Universe, Subverting a Multiverse l The Greater Common Good l The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder

BOOKS RECEIVED 415

THANKS 425

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Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 8  Number 2  July 1999

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Articles

The role of information in labor movements: a comparative study of India and the USA
Sayan Bhattacharyya   
145

Gender equality in families: Bengali middle-class employed women in India
Mousumee Dutta  
161

Women’s physical mobility in rural Bangladesh: the role of socio-economic and community factors
Tarek Mahmud Hussain & John F. Smith  
177

The Siachen Glacier dispute: imbroglio on the roof of the world
Raspal S. Khosa  
187

Research Note
The nature, causes and effects of contraband trade and capital between India and Sri Lanka
Muttukrishna Sarvananthan
211

Book Reviews 219

Over 45 books reviewed, including:
Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin; Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities; The New International Politics of South Asia; Borders and Boundaries: Women in India’s

Partition; Making Enemies, Creating Conflicts: Pakistan’s Crises of State and Society; Legitimacy and Conflict in South Asia; Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India; Defending India; Scarred Minds: The Psychological Impact of War on Sri Lankan Tamils; Ananya: A Portrait of India

Books Received 275


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 8  NUMBER 1  MARCH 1999

CONTENTS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

ARTICLES

Policy reforms, institutions and the poor in rural India
Raghav Gaiha & Vani Kulkarni   7

Explaining the two-party system in Sri Lanka’s National Assembly
John Hickman  29

The Sarkaria Commission and India’s struggle for federalism
Lawrence Saez  41

Estate Tamils, the Ceylon Citizenship Act of 1948 and Sri Lankan politics
Amita Shastri  65

BOOK REVIEWS 87

BOOKS RECEIVED 125


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 7  NUMBER 3  NOVEMBER 1998

CONTENTS

CSA–BASAS Prize

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

ARTICLES

India’s freedom from famine: the case of Kalahandi
Dan Banik   265

Bangladesh: the beginning of the end of militarised politics?
Muhammad A. Hakim  283

Pushed the margins: Adivasi peoples in Bangladesh and the case of Kalpana
Chakma
Lamia Karim  301

Limits of dissent: a comparative study of dissident voices in the nuclear
discourse of Pakistan and India
Haider K. Nizamani  317

BOOK REVIEWS 339

BOOKS RECEIVED 389

THANKS 397

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VOLUME 7  NUMBER 2  JULY 1998

CONTENTS

CSA–BASAS Prize

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

ARTICLES

Confidence-building measures between Pakistan and India: an argument for
change
Mutahir Ahmed   137

Challenges to developing the economy of Nepal
Narayan Khadka  147

Fight for the last drop: inter-state river disputes in India
Ashok Swain  167

Political cohesion in Pakistan: Jinnah and the ideological state
Alan Whaites  181

VIEWPOINTS
South Asia goes nuclear: Indian and Pakistani positions
H. E. Chandrasekhar Dasgupta & H. E. Riaz Mohammad Khan 193

BOOK REVIEWS 201

BOOKS RECEIVED 243


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 7  NUMBER 1  MARCH 1998

CONTENTS

The CSA–BASAS Prize

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

ARTICLES

The political economy of agricultural trade policy: Sri Lanka in the Uruguay
Round
Prema-chandra Athukorala & Saman Kelegama   7

Imagining an alternative politics of knowledge: subverting the hegemony of
international relations theory in Pakistan
Sohail Inayatullah  27

Transactional friction between NGOs and public agencies in Bangladesh: culture
or dependency?
Ishtiaq Jamil  43

The gendered division of space and access in working class areas of Lahore
Anita M. Weiss  71

BOOK REVIEWS 91

BOOKS RECEIVED 117


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 6  Number 3  November 1997

CONTENTS

CSA–BASAS Prize

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

ARTICLES

The dichotomy of Islam and development: NGOs, women’s development and
fatawa in Bangladesh
M. Rashiduzzaman   239

Vigilantes, virgins, and long suffering wives: the limitations of contemporary
Indian television’s reconstructions of femininity
Kalpana Misra and Debasmita Roychowdhury  247

Ethnic tensions in Sindh and their possible solution
Sayed Mehtab Ali Shah  259

The Punjab legislative assembly elections of February 1997: the BJP’s regional
road to power?
Gurharpal Singh  273

BOOK REVIEWS 285

BOOKS RECEIVED 309

THANKS 317

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VOLUME 6  Number 2  July 1997

CONTENTS

Military Islamisation in Pakistan and the spectre of colonial perceptions
Markus Daechsel   141

Hunger, undernutrition and poverty in India
Raghav Gaiha  161

Religious conflict, popular culture and the troubled spectators of recent Indian film
Anthony R. Guneratne  177

Dreams, intercultural identification and The Satanic Verses
Joel Kuortti  191

BOOK REVIEWS 201

BOOKS RECEIVED 221


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 6  Number 1  March 1997

CONTENTS

The consequences of partisan intervention in secessionist wars: lessons from
South Asia
Rajat Ganguly   5

The politics of economic liberalization in India
Vanita Shastri  27

Domestic support, weak governments, and regional cooperation: a case study
of South Asia
Kishore C. Dash  57

Pakistan's progress towards economic freedom
Robert E. Looney  79

BOOK REVIEWS 101

BOOKS RECEIVED 123


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 5  Number 3  November 1996

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Abolishing poverty and hunger: a South Asian perspective
M. Ghaffar Chaudhry   253

Literacy and development in South Asia
Sanat Kumar Saha  263

Air wars: competition and control in India's electronic media
William Crawley  289

Representation and reflection of self and society in the Bombay cinema
Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay  303

Process of democratization in Bangladesh
Mohammad Mohabbat Khan & Syed Anwar Husain  319

Book Reviews 335

Books Received 361

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Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 5 Number 2 July 1996

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

India's post-Cold War armaments policy: an analysis until 1993
Citha D. Maass (in cooperation with Georg Bautzmann) 125

A tale of two sisters: two decades of the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund in Bangladesh
Debapriya Bhattacharya 149

Material determination model and the politico-ideological determination model
in the study of rural classes in Sri Lanka
Siri Gamage 165

Perpetuating the divide: political abuse of history in South Asia
Navnita Chadha Behera 191

Grameen approach to development in Bangladesh: an overview
Najmul Abedin 207

Book Reviews 215

Books Received 239


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 5 Number 1 March 1996

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

India: from consensus to confrontation
Smita Gupta 5

Patterns and trends of Sind politics (1936-1940)
Z. H. Zaidi 19

The dilemmas of local level planning in Bangladesh 1982-1990
Habib Zafarullah 47

A feminist movement in Sri Lanka: the potential and the necessity
Rohini Hensman 67

The limitations of Indo-Israeli military cooperation
P. R. Kumaraswamy 75

COMMENTARY
Pre-election India: an historian's report
Antony Copley 85

Book Reviews 103

Books Received 117


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 4 Number 4 1995

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

The state and civil society in Pakistan
Alan Whaites 229

The long march to capitalism: India's resistance to, and reintegration with the world economy
Anthony P. D'Costa 255

Religious minorities in Myanmar - hints of the shadow
Bruce Matthews 287

Part-time farming in Bangladesh: a village case study of its causes
Abu Muhammad Shajaat Ali 309

Pakistani defence expenditures and the macroeconomy: alternative strategies to the year 2000
Robert E. Looney 331

Book Reviews 357

Books Received 359


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 4 Number 2/3 1995

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Aid and trade with North and Middle East OECs: the real long-term issues in the context of India's balance of payments problem
H. Ashok Chandra Prasad 117

British perspectives, pressures and publicity regarding Bangladesh, 1971
Harun-or-Rashid 139

The Pashto language and identity-formation in Pakistan
Tariq Rahman 151

Genesis of the Indo-Sri Lankan Agreement of 29 July 1987
Shelton U. Kodikara 171

Economic liberalization of Pakistan's economy: trends and repercussions
M. Ghaffar Chaudry 187

Democracy in Bangladesh: illusion or reality
Tazeen M. Murshid 193

Review Article: Chelvanayakam, federalism and ethnic policies 215

Books Received 221


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 4 Number 1 1995

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

The insurgency in Kashmir (1989-1991)
Edward Desmond 5

Nehru and the Indo-Pakistan rivalry over Kashmir 1947-1964
Gowher Rizvi 17

Kashmir imbroglio: the socio-political roots
Riyaz Punjabi 39

Kashmiriyat: the vitality of Kashmiri identity
Balraj Puri 55

Kashmir and the imagining of Pakistan
Yunas Samad 65

Kashmir: the Valley's political dynamics 79

The Kashmir problem: a view from four provinces of Pakistan
Mehtab Ali Shah 103


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 3 Number 3 1994

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Gender question in India: emerging issues and debate
Rekha Chowdhary 179

The military and democracy in Pakistan
Yunas Samad 189

Outward-oriented trade policy and industrial performance in Sri Lanka, 1977-92
Ganeshan Wignaraja 203

Z. A. Bhutto's leadership: a psycho-social view
S. Zulfiqar Gilani 217

Review article: In defence of development economics
Sanat Kumar Saha 257


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 3 Number 2 1994

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

'Wahabi' sectarianism among Muslims of Banaras
Mary Searle-Chatterjee 83

South Asian security in the post-Cold War era: issues and outlook
A. K. M. Abdus Sabur 95

Self-determination, state-building and the Muhajirs
J. Rehman 111

Can there be a melting pot in Pakistan? Interprovincial marriage and national integration
Theodore P. Wright, Jr. 131

Review article: India's precarious democracy: between crisis and resilience
Shalendra D. Sharma 145

Book Reviews 165


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 3 Number 1 1994

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Tamils and the meaning of history
Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam 3

Transformations of agriculture, food, self-sufficiency and prospects for surpluses: the case of South Asia
M. Ghaffar Chaudhry 37

State, military and modernity: the experience of South Asia
Imtiaz Ahmed 53

The Indian claim to Jammu & Kashmir (Commentary)
Alastair Lamb 67

Book Reviews 73


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 2 Number 3 1993

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Human rights in India: concepts and contexts
James Chiriyankandath 245

India and the EC in a new world order
Jergen Dige Pedersen 265

Hindutva ideology: extracting the fundamentals
C. Ram-Prasad 285

The nature of Bangladesh state in the post-1975 period
A. M. Quamrul Alam 311

The politics of ethnicity and ethno-nationalisms in South Asia
A. Jeyaratnam Wilson 327

The development of Indian naval strategy since 1972 Marcus B. Zinger 335


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 2 Number 2 1993

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Ethnic and religious identities in colonial India (1920s-1930s)
Dietrich Reetz 109

Ethnicity and Development - an elusive relationship
Bjorn Hettne 123

The role of the navy in Indian security policy
Rahul Roy-Chaudhury 151

Stabilization and structural reform in India
Robert Cassen, Vijay Joshi and Michael Lipton 165

Review Articles: The struggle for Kashmir: alternative interpretations and solutions
Raju G. C. Thomas 199

Book reviews 219


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 2 Number 1 1993

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Working mothers and bachelor farmers: an investigation of relationships between female farm labour participation and juvenile sex ratios in rural India
Morgan D. Maclachlan 5

Ethnicity and social order: South Asia today
Satish Saberwal 23

Cooperation among antagonists: regional integration and security in South Asia
Ross Mallick 33

Indian Secularism reconsidered: from Gandhi to Ayodhya
Antony Copley 47

Bangladesh: the challenge of democracy - language, culture and political identity
Tazeen M. Murshid 67

The presidential idea in the constitutions of South Asia - a response to Jean-Alphonse Bernard
A. Jeyaratnam Wilson 75

Book reviews 79


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 1 Number 3 1992

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Politics of development and the development of politics: an inquiry into the political means of equitable development
John Echeverri-Gent 325

Prospects for the NPT in South Asia
Ziba Moshaver 351

Information systems and urbanization in South Asia
James Heitzman 363

Afghanistan: war and reconciliation?
Anthony Hyman 381

Commonalities and dissimilarities in American and Canadian approaches towards the Indian subcontinent
Arthur G. Rubinoff 393

India's naval expansion and Australia
Tim Huxley 407

Book reviews 425


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 1 Number 2 1992

Special Issue: environment and development
(Guest Editors Asit K. Biswas and Margaret R. Biswas)

CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors

Editorial note 165

Foreword
Maurice F. Strong 167

Environment, poverty and population growth
H.R.H. the Prince of Wales 171

Wealth, welfare, water - developing the eastern Himalayan rivers
B. G. Verghese 193

Indo-Bangladesh common rivers: the impact on Bangladesh
Nahid Islam 203

Fits and misfits over time and space: technologies and institutions of water development for South Asian agriculture
Anthony Bottrall 227

Forest management, environment and development in South Asia
Asit K. Biswas 249

Barriers to energy end-use efficiency
B. N. Lohani and A.M. Azimi 259

Learning from the Bhopal accident
B. Bowonder 281

Economic policies for sustainable development: a country study for Nepal
Summarized by B. N. Lohani and J. Warren Evans 291


Contemporary South Asia

VOLUME 1 Number 1 1992

CONTENTS

Editorial scope and objectives 3

A decade of South Asian regionalism: retrospect and prospect
Sridhar K. Khatri 5

South Asia and the geostrategics of the 1990s
Peter Lyon 25

The presidential idea in the constitutions of South Asia
Jean-Alphonse Bernard 41

The three worlds of democracy in Pakistan
Khalid Bin Sayeed 53

The new economics of growth: an assessment after 15 years
Brian M. Trinque 67

Food crises and prevention: an analysis in the Indian context
Bob Currie 93

The changing place of Pakistan in the US-Indian relations
Satu Limaye 113

Indo-Pakistani relations: a historical appraisal
Iftikar H. Malik 127

Challenges and opportunities for South Asia
M. B. Naqvi 143

Book reviews 147


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