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This book investigates the roots of rapid economic growth of India in recent decades, by exploring the late colonial period. This book by the late Haruka Yanagisawa, will be of interest to researchers in social&economic history, sociology, anthropology& economies of S. Asia.

This book examines the trajectory of federalization in Myanmar's political development, evaluating the attitudes of different political actors towards, and negotiation strategies for, designing federalism.

Sufism in India and Central Asia is an attempt to put into perspective the relevance of Sufism - the concept and teaching, and to provide a realistic assessment of its role in India and Central Asia.

This book analyzes the last phase of the Warsaw Pact, based on unusually large-scale archival research conducted in many countries.

This book focuses on the emotional hazards of conducting fieldwork about or within contexts of violence and provides a forum for field-based researchers to tell their stories.

This book presents diverse, composite, non-exclusive and non-hierarchical perspectives on displacement of people as represented in literature. It examines the experiences of migration as a result of wars, natural disasters, religious strife, loss of livelihoods and shifts in local and global economies and the vulnerabilities they expose.

This book explains how and why European non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) engage in advocacy towards the European Union (EU). It analyses the heterogenous structure of the sector, with examples ranging from large multinational networks to essentially single person NGDOs.

The essays in this volume examine the cultural exchanges and encounters that have occurred in Central Asia through a vast timeline that extends from the premedieval to the medieval and modern periods.

This book analyses marginalisation and human rights in Southeast Asia and offers diverse approaches in understanding the nuances of marginalisation and human rights in the region. It will be of interest to readers in the fields of Asian Law, Human Rights in Asia, and Southeast Asian Studies, in particular Southeast Asian Politics.

This book explores the many dimensions of water quality problems in different parts of the globe, with focus on problems of governance, from legal frameworks to social discourses and compensation measures. The chapters in this book were originally published in Water International.

This book offers a comparative study of minority-majority relations in post-conflict societies. Drawing on three contentious cases - Bulgaria, Croatia, and Montenegro -it explores how pluralist governance structures are established in the area of minority rights in new EU member and candidate states and how reform resilience is ensured.

Investigates Islamic finance's stance on the informal economy and discusses it from an OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) perspective. Covers the various definitions, historical development, types and determining factors behind the shadow economy and the reasons for people's preference to join and stay in the informal economy.

This book brings together chapters that address questions of leisure, activism and the animation of urban environments. The authors share research that explores the meaning and making of activist practices, events of dissent, and the arts in everyday life.Chapters were originally published as special issue of Leisure Studies.

In providing an analysis of the grammar of the dialect of seven counties along the Yellow River, this two-volume set synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect of China's Northern Shaanxi Province.

This book is the first volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect in Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on the grammatical features of the pronouns, the aspect and appearance, and the tense system of the dialect.

This book is the second volume of a two-volume set that synchronically and diachronically studies the Jin dialect in Northern Shaanxi Province in China, with a focus on six grammatical features of the dialect.

This book examines the growing diversity of religions and worldviews across South & Central Asia, and the factors affecting prospects for "covenantal pluralism" in these regions.The chapters originally appeared as research articles in the journal The Review of Faith & International Affairs.

This book examines the growing diversity of religions and worldviews across East & Southeast Asia, and the factors affecting prospects for "covenantal pluralism" in these regions.The chapters originally appeared as research articles in the journal The Review of Faith & International Affairs.

This book analyses school-based management (SBM) of education in Ghana through the lens of relational trust, revealing how community participation in school management leads to educational outcomes. It will be a valuable resource for scholars in comparative education, educational development and those interested in African contexts.

This book examines the different dimensions of farmer agitations in Punjab, India. It situates the 2020-2021 farmer resistance movement within the wider context of India's post-independent development trajectory and provides a thorough analysis of various aspects of the farmers' movement in India.

This book describes and analyzes the transformation of Indian economy taking into account historical changes and present dynamics of the rural-urban nexus. It will be of interest to researchers studying South Asian History, Economics, Politics, Geography, Sociology and Anthropology, Development Studies and Economic History.

This book is the first comprehensive overview of Buddhist architecture in North America and provides an analysis of Buddhist architecture and communities. It will be of interest to religion, architecture, US history, Asian Studies and Buddhist Studies and libraries of Buddhist communities across the United States and the world.

The book carefully addresses and simplifies the issue of integrity in Halal logistics and supply chain. It gathers findings to shed light of current issues, developments and future trends on the theory and practice of Halal in the logistics sector.

The book provides a comprehensive conceptual understanding covering major challenges and pathways to progressively promote inclusive development in Bangladesh. The book will be of interest to Bangladesh's political, economic and social configurations and development economics, and Economics, Asian Studies and Development Studies.

This book engages with the writings of W.G. Sebald, mediated by perspectives drawn from curriculum and architecture, to explore the theme of unsettling complacency and confront difficult knowledge around trauma, discrimination and destruction.

This book analyses faith-based development action in the Philippines by studying Catholic social movements and development studies in Southeast Asia. It will be of interest to Asian Studies, SEA Studies, Development Studies, Anthropology of Development, Social Movements, Anthropology of Christianity, Missiology and Religious Studies.

This book studies the impact of public expenditure allocations in achieving income equality goals in Malaysia and evaluates the impact of the public expenditure policies in reducing the inter-ethnic and rural-urban disparity. It will be of interest to economists and researchers on Southeast Asian Studies.

This book studies the importance of adopting Green Academia as a systemic long-term counter-intervention strategy against any form of impending pandemics in the post-COVID era and beyond.

This book examines Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka, how Tamil nationalism has survived the destruction of the Tamil Tigers after May 2009 and will be of interest to Politics and International Relations, ethnic nationalism, post-armed conflict peacebuilding/conflict resolution, the politics in Sri Lanka, diaspora politics and Foucault.