South Asia (Current History, 1) - Hardcover

Ganguly, Sumit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814731767 ISBN 13: 9780814731765

Publisher: NYU Press, 2006

Synopsis

In recent years the world’s focus on South Asia has increased dramatically. With the events of 9/11, the detonation of atomic weapons by both India and Pakistan, the discovery of an illicit nuclear proliferation network based in Islamabad, regime change in an unstable Afghanistan, and the rise of India as an economic power, global interest in the region has reached perhaps an all-time high. Leading experts analyze the key strategic, political, and economic issues touching on South Asia and its role in the world in the essays that make up this inaugural volume in the Current History Books Series.

Focusing on modern South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, this authoritative volume provides an overview of the events and trends that have rocked this increasingly volatile region over the past decade. Edited and with an introduction by Sumit Ganguly, a leading expert on the region, this volume provides a critical introduction to South Asia. South Asia also contains current maps as well as a “Recent Chronology of Events” that provides a decade’s worth of information on the region, organized by year and by country. This timely and comprehensive collection of essays provides a definitive account of modern South Asia.

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About the Author:

Sumit Ganguly is the Rabindranath Tagore Professor of Indian cultures and civilizations and professor of political science at Indiana University, Bloomington. A contributing editor to Current History, his most recent books include Fearful Symmetry: India and Pakistan in the Shadow of Nuclear Weapons and Conflict Unending: India-Pakistan Tensions Since 1947.

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About this edition

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0814731767
• ISBN 13: 9780814731765
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 229