The central problem of the social sciences in Asia: critique, diagnosis and prescription. 2.

Theorizing the state of the social sciences. 3.

The structure of Academic Dependency and the global division of labour in the social sciences. 4.

The definition and variety of alternative discourses in Asia. 5.

Nativist or autonomous social science : A clash of orientations. 6.

Towards an adequate conceptualization of relevance and irrelevance in the social sciences. 7.

Alternative discourses and power. 8.

Rethinking the teaching of the social sciences. 9.

The prospects and future of alternative discourses in Asia. Bibliography.

Index. About the author.

"The social sciences in Asia, like most other disciplines, were introduced by the west and continue to look towards them for inspiration, affirmation and legitimacy. There is now a growing awareness amongst scholars and students about the need for developing Asia centric social sciences in order to better appreciate Asian realities.

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The rural-urban continuum re-examined in the Indian context. 2.

Charisma, social structure and social change. 3.

Community power structure in rural India. 4.

The theory of voluntary associations in a cross-cultural perspective. 5.

Student power in India: a sociological analysis. Part II: 6.

Agrarian classes and political mobilization. 7.

Political alienation and internal threats to the Indian polity. 8.

Movements and institutions: structural opposition or processual linkages? 9. Erving Goffman and the study of everyday protest.

10. Religion and development in Hindu society.

11. Western vision and eastern survival: towards a futuristic agenda.

12. State, nation and ethnie: the processual linkages.

References. Index.

"The endeavour to internationalise the social sciences has a long history. Some have advanced this cause as a genuine effort to foster a dispassionate understanding of human society without 'national' frontiers; others have perceived it as a way of establishing the ideological hegemony of either capitalism or (less)

I. Survival: 1.

Infants and children. 2.

Women. 3.

Life expectancy. II.

Nutrition: 1. Protein-energy malnutrition.

2. Vitamin A deficiency.

3. Iodine deficiency disorders.

4. Iron deficiency anaemia.

5. Low birth weight.

III. Health: 1.

Diarrhoea. 2.

Acute respiratory infection. 3.

Immunizable diseases. 4.

Tuberculosis. 5.

Malaria. 6.

HIV/AIDS. IV.

Care: 1. Feeding practices.

2. Hygiene practices.

3. Home health practices.

4. Psycho-social practices.

5. Contraception.

V. Household food security.

VI. Water and sanitation.

VII. Health services: 1.

Curative. 2.

Preventive. VIII.

Education: 1. Primary school completion.

2. Gross enrolment ratios.

3. Literacy.

4. Education of girls.

IX. Communications.

X. Religion.

XI. Economic resources: 1.

Macroeconomic growth. 2.

Poverty. 3.

Government expenditure. 4.

Foreign aid. XII.

Child labour. XIII.

Agricultural production: 1. Land holdings.

2. Irrigation.

XIV. Human resources: 1.

Population. 2.

Gender development. 3.

Fertility. 4.

Urbanization. 5.

Urban children. Appendix.

Sources. Definitions.

"The Atlas of South Asian Children and Women (less)

Introduction. 2.

Nature and functions of human resource management. 3.

Role and challenges of personnel/human resource manager. 4.

Structure of personnel department. 5.

Approaches in planning and utilisation of human resources. 6.

Audit of human resources utilisation. 7.

Recruitment and selection. 8.

Placement, induction, promotion, succession and career development. 9.

Communication. 10.

Good communication is vital for success for an organisation. 11.

Leadership. 12.

Trade unions. 13.

Industrial disputes. 14.

Collective bargaining. 15.

Employee Welfare. 16.

Safety and health. 17.

Performance appraisal. 18.

MBO approach to appraisal. 19.

Job satisfaction. 20.

Keeping an organisation young – a case study relating to future age structure of manpower. 21.

Utilisation of ineffective manpower – a case study oriented approach. Index.

"Any organisation, whether be it big or small, is a total integration of man, machine and management. We must treat them as a whole not in parts, they are an organic entity.

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Introduction. 2.

Bangladesh: the economy, the people and politics. 3.

Literature review. 4.

Data and methodology. 5.

Analysis of results. 6.

Scenario analysis. 7.

Party performance and perceived terrorism. 8.

Awami League margin analysis. 9.

Analysis of unusual movements in votes. 10.

Impact of rebel candidates. 11.

Party performance and voter turnout. 12.

Multivariate analysis of party performance. 13.

Conclusion. References.

Index. "This book is the result of an empirical study aimed at analysing the results of the three parliamentary elections held in Bangladesh under caretaker administrations since 1991, with special emphasis on the October 2001 election.

It carries out an objective analysis of various aspects of the election including possible determinants of party performance and voter turnout and the impact of rebel candidates and other contextual variables on the outcome of the election. To-date, no study has been undertaken to offer an objective analysis of the election results.

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I. Historical background: 1.

The geography and history of Afghanistan/Sirdar Iqbal Ali Shah. 2.

British relations with Afghanistan from 1855 to 1869/H.B.

Hanna. 3.

Kabul/A.C.

Jewett. II.

Soviet intervention: 4. Soviet intervention in Afghanistan: a Third World perspective/Iftekharuzzaman.

5. Resistance movement in Afghanistan (1979-81)/Mahfooz Ahmad.

6. Resistance in Afghanistan: the Panjshir model/Rahimullah Yusufzai.

7. Sovietization of Afghan society/Naseem Rizvi.

III. Post-Soviet Afghanistan: 8.

Afghanistan: Soviet withdrawal and after/Mohammad Humayun Kabir. 9.

Post-Communist Afghanistan: implications, challenges and prospects for a new order/Mohammad Humayun Kabir and Abu Taher Salahuddin Ahmed. 10.

Peace-keeping and reconciliation in Afghanistan/Mahmoud Mesteri. 11.

Afghanistan: power struggle among the rival groups/Mansoor Akbar Kundi. 12.

Changing matrix of Afghan conflict/P. Stobdan.

13. The Taliban factor in the ongoing Afghan Civil War/Sreedhar.

IV. Afghanistan and the international community: 14.

US policy towards Afghanistan/Chintamani Mahapatra. 15.

India’s options in Afghanistan/R.S.

Chauhan. 16.

The Afghan Civil War: Pakistan re-asserts while India ignores/Aabha (less)

The anatomy of Russian Nationalism in post-Soviet period/Devendra Kaushik. 2.

Historical roots of Uzbeg Nationalism/Mansura Haider. 3.

Russian security interests in the Transcaucasus/Nirmala Joshi. 4.

National identities, state and Democracy in Russia/Shashikant Jha. 5.

Variations of Russian Nationalism/Anuradha M. Chenoy.

6. Demographici process and ethnic relations in north Caucasus/Ajay Patnaik.

7. Ethno-religious nationalism among the minorities in Russia: the case of Chechnya/Sanjay Kumar Pandey.

8. Russian Nationalism-A historical perspective/Sanjay Deshpande.

9. NATO expansion and Start-II: Russia's security Dilemma/Matin Zuberi.

10. Uzbek economy : Dilemmas of development/R.

G. Gidadhubli.

11. Economic integration-the Central Asian Dilemma/Rama Sampath Kumar.

12. The ethnic and religious revivalism in Central Asia/Shams-Ud-Din.

13. Central Asia as a cultural center/Richard N.

Frye. 14.

Some aspects of transformation in Post Communist Societies of Central Asia/Eva-Maria Hexamer. 15.

The changing international order and the Central Asian conflict. Constellation: some characteristic aspects/Diethelm Weidemann.

16. Kazakh ethnmonationalism and problems of nation-building in modern Kazakhstan/Rustem Kadyrzhanov (less)

These transformational changes in the military, economic and political dynamics of Asia are accelerating with the passage of time. Historically, changes in the international order and equations of power among national have been almost inevitably accompanied by conflicts and wars.

The challenge ahead of the international community in general and Asian countries in particular would be how to ensure that this is avoided, and competition, so necessary to shaping the future, is managed below the levels of armed conflict. This is crucial for most countries like India so that their comprehensive national development can progress without adverse developments.

In order towork toward such goals, it is necessary to look at security and military-related issues as objectively as possible. This volume, a resource base for the professional and the general reader, is the sixth in the series of the annual publication of the Centre for Air Power Studies under this title, which aims to fill a critical information and knowledge gap in current strategic literature dealing with military strategy, defence politics and trends in military capabilities that impact countries in Asia.

In particular, it covers some of the important areas that affect Asian countries, with a focus on China, India and Pakistan, to provide the requisite regional balance. Contents : 1.

India-China Relations: Problems And Prospects; 2. Regulating Human Activities in Outer Space ? Is Code of Conduct the Answer?; 3.

Ballistic Missile Defence; 4. Pakistan?s Desire for Strategic Depth in Afghanistan; 5.

Nuclear Waste: India?s Gordian Knot?; 6. Indigenisation of Aerospace Industry Through Jonah?s Thinking Process; 7.

Technology Advancements in the Unmanned Era; 8. India?s Next War ?; 9.

Emerging Missile Threat; 10. West Asia Today; 11.

Nuclear Forensics: An Overview (less)

Endowment of nature. 2.

Tiger. 3.

Lion. 4.

Leopard. 5.

Wolf. 6.

Wild dog. 7.

Elephant. 8.

Rhinoceroses. 9.

Wild ass. 10.

Gaur. 11.

Wild buffalo. 12.

Brow-antlered deer. 13.

Barasingha. 14.

Sambar. 15.

Chital. 16.

Blackbuck. 17.

Crocodiles. 18.

Bustards. 19.

Religious sentiment and wildlife. 20.

Man and wildlife: conservation and the future in South Asia. Bibliography and references.

Notes on abbreviations and names. "There are but few books on the wildlife of southern Asia and none on the region as a whole.

Encompassing perhaps the most diverse, splendid and threatened species of fauna and flora in the world, there is an urgent need to garner much greater support for their conservation by providing information and inculcating interest amongst the laymen, as well as referral material for the specialist. "No book on Asian wildlife can ignore the tiger.

Yet so many books do not go beyond the tiger. This does not (less)

2. The industrial work of women in India and Bangladesh.

3. Women's role as agricultural producers.

4. Japanization and women's labour.

Glossary. Bibliography.

Index. "The author first locates present-day feminist debates in the context of the intellectual controversies on labour which accompanied the growth of social and women workers' movements in 19th and early 20th century Europe.

The labour conditions in the readymade garments industry--a key sector in many Asian economies--are highlighted, with special reference to women stitchers in Bangladesh and women homeworkers in West Bengal. "The book also provides a wide-ranging overview of the processes of agrarian modernization and their impact on rural women.

Peter Custers discusses themes such as the commercialization of production, and feminist interpretations of the spread of high-yielding varieties of seeds in combination with agrochemical inputs in India. "The reader, further, is taken to Japan, where companies have developed management (less)

Introduction: terrorism and the new security environment/William M. Carpenter and David G.

Wiencek. 1.

Australia: America's closest Ally/Bruce Vaughan. 2.

Bangladesh: growing Islamic identity and continued political gridlock/M.A.

Thomas. 3.

Brunei: multifaceted survival strategies of a small state/Cheng-Chwee Kuik and Bridget Welsh. 4.

Burma: plus ca change/Maureen Aung-Thwin. 5.

Cambodia: a gathering danger/Paul C. Grove.

6. China: the rising power in Asia and its relations with preemptive America--emerging strategic partnership temporary tactical accommodation, or both?/Joseph G.

D. (Geoff) Babb.

7. India: confidence amid change/Satu P.

Limaye. 8.

Indonesia: a difficult transition to democracy/John B. Haseman.

9. Japan: untangling the contradictions/Steven R.

Sauders. 10.

Laos: learning to live with the outside world/William M. Carpenter.

11. Malaysia: security begins at home/Bridget Welsh.

12. Mongolia: a delicate balancing act/Michael J.

Mitchell. 13.

Nepal: political uncertainty amid the Maoist threat/M.A.

Thomas. 14.

New Zealand: a small nation's perspective/Bruce Vaughn. 15.

North Korea: continued advancement (less)

2. Fragile States and People: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Concept and Measurement/Raj Kumar Sen and Somnath Hazra.

3. Financial Crisis and the Deterioration of Human Development in South Korea and Thailand/Johannes Dragsbaek Schmidt.

4. Poverty Reduction: The Relevance of the Chinese Model to Africa/Danbala Danju.

5. Nutrition and Health Transition Lessons form Kerala/K.

Gangadharan. 6.

Benefits of Government Expenditure on Higher Education – A case study of Coimbatore District, Tamilnadu/K. Govindarajalu.

7. Public Health Services in Malaysia: Is Privatization an appropriate Policy Option?/B.

N. Ghosh.

8. Inter-Sectoral Migration and Economic Development: A Case Study of Kerala /Parvesh Chopra and B.

N. Ghosh.

9. Financial Services for Low Income Households/Ranjula Bali Swain.

10. Flavours of Advertising in India: Recent Trends/Dharmendra Kr.

Sharma and Priyanka Upadhay. 11.

Buying Orientation of Consumers in India: Changes and Challenges/Ashutosh Priya and Rachna Bamba (less)

2. Bodhisattva Siddhartha's visit to the writing school, Kumtura.

3. A unique painting from the Dome of a Roof, Kizil, Central Asia.

4. Bodhisattva Siddhartha of the Cave No.

1 of Ajanta, India. 5.

A stone relief from Termez showing Mara's Assault on the Bodhisattva before his enlightenment. 6.

An unidentified repousse' Gilt Bronze medallion from Chinese Turkestan. 7.

Buddha's visit to Kapilavastu as depicted in a mural fragment from Duldur Aqur, Xinjiang, Chinese Turkestan. 8.

Ordination of two Sakya Princes, Nanda and Rahula as depicted in a Dunhuang Cave painting. 9.

Bodhisattva Mahasattva Akshyamati's gift of pearl necklace to Avalokitesvara. 10.

Mahakasyapa and the Ignition of the Buddha's Funeral Pyre from Kizil, Central Asia. 11.

A Mural fragment showing a Buddhist Monk's meditation before a Skull, Kizil, Central Asia. 12.

Skanda-Karttikeya as a Yaksha (less)

Acknowledgements. Introduction/Zoya Hasan.

1. The struggle for democracy in Bangladesh/Amena Mohsin and Meghna Guhathakurta.

2. The Indonesian experience in implementing democracy/Adriana Elisabeth.

3. The history of the Democratic Movement in Iran in the 20 century/Sadegh Zibakalam.

4. Islam and democracy in Malaysia/Abdul Rahman Embong.

5. Functioning of democracy in Pakistan/Mohammad Waseem.

6. Interaction of democracy and Islam in Turkey/Korel Goymen.

About the editor and contributors. Index.

"Democracy in Muslim Societies : The Asian Experience explores the character of the political transformation and democratic transition in Asian Muslim societies. It asks whether democracy is appropriate and desirable as a political system for non-Western Societies, and assesses the extent of actual democratisation in each of the countries studied, namely, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey.

The book questions the widely held view that the socio-political ethos of Islam as a religion, and of Muslim countries as societal units, prevents Muslims from adopting (less)

Mangla. Acknowledgements.

Introduction. I.

Library and information science education: 1. Library and information science education in India/Krishan Kumar and Jaideep Sharma.

2. Library and information science professionals: new faces and new phases/A.

Amudhavalli. 3.

Library and information science education in South Asia/Paramjeet Kaur Walia. 4.

Library education in Pakistan: an overview/Kanwal Ameen. 5.

Library and information science education in India through distance mode: curriculum development at Indira Gandhi National Open University/Neena Talwar-Kanungo. 6.

Development of need based library and information science curriculum: emerging global trends, opportunities and challenges/Kshema Prakash and K. Santi Swarup.

II. University Libraries: 7.

Indian university libraries in information technology era: problems and prospects/S.D.

Vyas. 8.

Strategic planning for developing Indian University Libraries into knowledge resource and services centres/Inder Vir Malhan. 9.

Library and information services in higher education for visually challenged students: study of the Rajasthan University Library, Jaipur/Prabha Sharma. 10.

Information and communication technology: library resources orientation programmes (less)

Collection development and collection management. 2.

The internet and collection management. 3.

Collection management and integrated library systems. 4.

Collection development policies. 5.

The role of selection in collection development. 6.

Collection development and performance review. 7.

Evaluating academic library collections. 8.

Electronic document delivery services and their impact on collection management. 9.

The preservation of electronic records : what shall we do next? 10. Staffing and organization for collection development.

11. Budgeting for information resources : current trends and future direction.

Index. "Collection and management of information and its dissemination to the aspiring user form integral part of the responsibilities of persons managing a library.

Electronic means have also brought in several aspects hitherto unknown to the field. The present book is an attempt to bring to the limelight the increasingly complex and dynamic interplay between the evolving system of scholarly communication and collection management function of libraries.

It explores in (less)

Head of Siva-Dhurjati, Balawaste. 2.

Bodhisattva Gautama with a sheaf of grass in his right hand, Dunhuang. 3.

Ordination of Rahula, Dunhuang. 4.

Indra blowing a Conch-shell, Kizil. 5.

Buddha’s twin miracles at Nyagrodha—Arama (Kapilavastu), Karashar. 6.

Vairochana Buddha, Farhad-Beg-Yailaki. 7.

Maitreya, Dunhuang. 8.

The story of Padumavati as presented in a Dunhuang silk banner. 9.

Buddha’s discourse to the Boatman of the Ganga, Kizil. 10.

Buddha in meditation, Sib-chu Valley to the West of the Mountain Kailash. 11.

A Mural fragment illustrating Dharmaparyaya, Karashar. 12.

The story of Kshema’s visit to Buddha at Venuvana, Kizil. 13.

Bodhisattva Gautama’s meditation and enlightenment, Dunhuang. 14.

Mahamayuri, Khotan. 15.

The monkey at the Wedge, Khotan. 16.

The Bimaran reliquary and its iconography. 17.

Rishyasringa (Ekasringa) story in India, Central Asia, China and Japan—a brief study. 18.

Kalyanakarin and Papamkara story, Bezeklik. 19.

Dipankara Buddha, Bezeklik. 20.

Nanda holding Buddha’s Alms—bowl, Khotan. 21.

Mara (less)

I. Conceptual framework: 1.

Introduction. 2.

A "New" public administration at the "New" era: Context, lessons and challenges. 3.

Public administration in a globalized world. 4.

Public management in the Asia-Pacific region. II.

Southeast Asian experiences: 5. Administrative reforms in Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore.

6. Reforms in the Singapore Civil Service: Lessons for Bangladesh.

7. Quality improvement in civil services: South East Asian experiences, implications for Bangladesh.

III. Bangladesh experiences: 8.

Public administration reforms in Bangladesh: incremental changes, reform resistance and lack of political will. 9.

Good governance in the Bangladesh Civil Service: Prescriptions for improvement. 10.

Governance: Meaning, issues and challenges: A Bangladesh perspective. 11.

Urban governance in Bangladesh: Politics, service delivery and prescriptions for reform. 12.

Corruption in Bangladesh: A critical overview. 13.

Political and administrative corruption: Concepts, comparative experiences and Bangladesh case. 14.

NGOs in Bangladesh: A perspective. 15.

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh: A critical overview. Index (less)