The Population of India and Pakistan
Title | The Population of India and Pakistan PDF eBook |
Author | Kingsley Davis |
Publisher | Princeton, Princeton U.P |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
The Great Partition
Title | The Great Partition PDF eBook |
Author | Yasmin Khan |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2017-07-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300233647 |
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”—Economist “Unsparing. . . . Provocative and painful.”—Times (London) “Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan’s empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it.”—Owen Bennett Jones, BBC
Global Political Demography
Title | Global Political Demography PDF eBook |
Author | Achim Goerres |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 459 |
Release | 2021-08-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3030730654 |
This open access book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040. Leading social scientists from a wide range of disciplines discuss, for the first time, all major political and policy aspects of population change as they play out differently in each major world region: North and South America; Sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA region; Western and East Central Europe; Russia, Belarus and Ukraine; East Asia; Southeast Asia; subcontinental India, Pakistan and Bangladesh; Australia and New Zealand. These macro-regional analyses are completed by cross-cutting global analyses of migration, religion and poverty, and age profiles and intra-state conflicts. From all angles, this book shows how strongly contextualized the political management and the political consequences of population change are. While long-term population ageing and short-term migration fluctuations present structural conditions, political actors play a key role in (mis-)managing, manipulating, and (under-)planning population change, which in turn determines how citizens in different groups react.
Shooting for a Century
Title | Shooting for a Century PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen P. Cohen |
Publisher | Brookings Institution Press |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0815721862 |
The India-Pakistan rivalry is one of the five percent of international conflicts that has been labeled as intractable. Cohen draws on his varied experiences in South Asia as he develops a comprehensive theory of why the dispute is intractable and suggests ways in which it may be ameliorated.
The Population of India and Pakistan
Title | The Population of India and Pakistan PDF eBook |
Author | Kingsley Davis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | India |
ISBN |
The Republic of India
Title | The Republic of India PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Gledhill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 309 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
The Longest August
Title | The Longest August PDF eBook |
Author | Dilip Hiro |
Publisher | Bold Type Books |
Pages | 526 |
Release | 2015-02-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1568587341 |
The partitioning of British India into independent Pakistan and India in August 1947 occurred in the midst of communal holocaust, with Hindus and Sikhs on one side and Muslims on the other. More than 750,000 people were butchered, and 12 million fled their homes—primarily in caravans of bullock-carts—to seek refuge across the new border: it was the largest exodus in history. Sixty-seven years later, it is as if that August never ended. Renowned historian and journalist Dilip Hiro provides a riveting account of the relationship between India and Pakistan, tracing the landmark events that led to the division of the sub-continent and the evolution of the contentious relationship between Hindus and Muslims. To this day, a reasonable resolution to their dispute has proved elusive, and the Line of Control in Kashmir remains the most heavily fortified frontier in the world, with 400,000 soldiers arrayed on either side. Since partition, there have been several acute crises between the neighbors, including the secession of East Pakistan to form an independent Bangladesh in 1971, and the acquisition of nuclear weapons by both sides resulting in a scarcely avoided confrontation in 1999 and again in 2002. Hiro amply demonstrates the geopolitical importance of the India-Pakistan conflict by chronicling their respective ties not only with America and the Soviet Union, but also with China, Israel, and Afghanistan. Hiro weaves these threads into a lucid narrative, enlivened with colorful biographies of leaders, vivid descriptions of wars, sensational assassinations, gross violations of human rights—and cultural signifiers like cricket matches. The Longest August is incomparable in its scope and presents the first definitive history of one of the world’s longest-running and most intractable conflicts.