For sale in CIS only! Included in the narrative are the wider Pashtun population that lived astride the British Imperial/Pakistan border, not just those Pashtuns resident in the modern state of Afghanistan. The literature on the Afghan wars and fro...

For sale in CIS only! The cheap mobile phone is arguably the most significant personal communications device in history. In India, where caste hierarchy has reinforced power for generations, the disruptive potential of the mobile phone is even more...

For sale in CIS only! For over sixty years the state of Israel has proved adept at practising clandestine diplomacy – about which little is known, as one might expect. These hitherto undisclosed episodes in Israel's diplomatic history are revealed f...

For sale in CIS only! After Independence the Nehruvian approach to socialism in India rested upon three pillars: secularism and democracy in the political domain; state intervention in the economy; and diplomatic Non-Alignment mitigated by pro-Sovie...

For sale in CIS only! There seems to be no end to the growing number of victims of civil war, terrorism, guerrilla warfare and military repression on the Indian subcontinent, despite the absence of interstate wars over the past ten years. These conf...

For sale in CIS only! Although the term 'natural disaster' applies to the December 2004 tsunami, the images of huge devastation that were televised after the tragedy probably seemed a good deal less 'natural' to us than those of starving African chi...

For sale in CIS only! Nationalism has become a major topic in social science research, and the contributors to "Revisiting Nationalism" seek to sharpen the theoretical focus of what is now a crowded field of intellectual enquiry. Their approach is f...

For sale in CIS only! Ambedkar, the first Untouchable ever to be formally educated, pioneered new strategies, philosophically and practically, which continue to prove effective, not least in the inspirational example he set to India's Untouchable co...

For sale in CIS only! A study of the Hindu nationalist phenomenon, exploring the movement's use of religious symbolism and popular iconography, thereby combining anthropology and political history. It looks at the RSS, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the...