The definitive one-volume Urdu text by Ghalib Lakhnavi and Abdullah Bilgrami appeared toward the end of the nineteenth century, but English translations of this text have always been censored and abridged – until now. In Musharraf Ali Farooqi’s faithful rendition, The Adventures of Amir Hamza is captured with all its colourful action, ribaldry, and fantastic elements intact.

Here is the spellbinding story of Amir Hamza the adventurer who loves Mehr-Nigar, the daughter of the Persian emperor, Naushervan. Guided by a clairvoyant called Bazurjmehr, protected by legendary prophets, and accompanied by his loyal friend, the ingenious trickster Amar Ayyar, Amir (less)

The traumatic events that follow leave the boys orphaned; they are raised by two Indian doctors at Missing. Here, Marion and Shiva grow up in a world of medicine, learning the curiosities of sinew and muscle, of the astonishing workings of the human body.

Outside the hospital, the politics of Ethiopia rages on: failed coups, student agitations, and ultimately the deposing of the emperor Haile Selassie. And in the midst of all of this, the twins have a falling out about a beautiful young woman; a conflict so bitter that it leads Marion to flee his (less)

The writers claimed that the tale had been passed down to them from story-tellers going back centuries: it was a part of the beloved oral epic, The Adventures of Amir Hamza which had come to the Indian subcontinent via Persia and had gained in popularity during the reign of Akbar, the Mughal emperor. The Tilism-e-Hoshruba is the subcontinent’s first wholly indigenous Indo-Islamic fantasy epic.

It tells the stories of Amir Hamza’s military forces, his grandson and his loyal band of tricksters (masters of wit and disguise) as they go to war with Afrasiyab, the sorcerer who rules the magical land of Hoshruba. Fantasy, the occult, adventure and romance play themselves out in a (less)

A sort of Totally Biased History of England, it takes us through all the times when Britain and France have been at war - or at least glowering at each other across what we Brits provocatively call The English Channel. Starting with the bloody battles of the Norman Conquest and going right up to the more civilised but no less conflictual present, when a state visit by the French President becomes a series of hilarious historical insults, Merde! 1000 Years of Annoying the French is a light-hearted - but impeccably researched - account of all those conflicts and their protagonists, If you think you know all about William the Conqueror, Joan of Arc, Agincourt, Waterloo and all the other flash points in Anglo-French relations - (less)

Acknowledgement. 1.

Dynamics of Trade Liberalisation in Bangladesh. 2.

Trade Liberalisation and economic growth: a review of theory and evidence. 3.

Trade Liberalisation in Bangladesh: overview of the policies and programmes. 4.

Bangladesh's Trade Liberalisation in a changing perspective: a time-series evaluation. 5.

Bangladesh's Trade Liberalisation in a global prospective a comparative analysis. 6.

Trade Liberalisation and growth nexus: a dynamic panel econometric study on Bangladesh manufacturing industries. 7.

Short-run vs. Long-run Macro impacts of Trade Liberalisation: an inter-temporal computable general equilibrium model of Bangladesh.

8. Summary and conclusions.

References. Index.

"Trade Liberalisation has been one of the major policy reforms in Bangladesh. This book aims to assess the dynamics of Trade Liberalisation, which include an examination of the theoretical and empirical literature on the 'Trade Liberalisation--Growth Nexus', an evaluation of the changes in the policy regimes in Bangladesh, an examination of the changes in the extent of Trade Liberalisation in Bangladesh (less)

Concept of trade. 2.

The backdrop. 3.

Trade and finance. 4.

Traits of business. 5.

Conduction of business. 6.

Rules for sales. 7.

Technique of setting prices. 8.

Economic matters and law. 9.

Relevance of Islamic economy. 10.

Economic policy in Islam. Bibliography.

Index. "Islam considers business and trade to be the best mode of earning.

And, among the different types of trade, Halal business is recommended as the best by Islam. Money earned through hard work and fair means is full of benefits.

On the one hand, hard work is vitalizing and keeps the body active and ready to work; on the other hand, it promotes a healthy life. During the time of the Prophet (Pbuh), people would go from city to city in groups (called carvans) to trade.

This involved travel to far-off places where people sold their commodities and brought back the products available there. There are advantages of (less)

The book provides an account of the different ports and dominions that existed during that period. It highlights the role played by the different dynasties such as the Cholas and Pallavas in the overall development of international trade.

The book paints a picture of the business connections that the Tamil provinces shared with different parts of the world, from Rome to the South East. It further divulges the factors that led to the administrative developments during this period and the pivotal role played by the traders in bolstering the economy in Southern India (less)

1. Geographical and historical background.

2. Towns, cities and markets.

3. Identification of trade items for import and export.

4. Merchants and guilds.

5. Mode of travel and transportation.

6. Methods and medium of payment.

7. Conclusion.

Glossary. Bibliography.

Index. "The thirteenth century opened new vistas in the world history, particularly Asia.

It witnessed the rise and fall of different dynasties and ultimately allowed the Mongols to survive as the mightiest power in China, Russia (Kipchak), Central Asia, and Persia for more than a century. They brought under their sway the Islamic lands of the orient except India where the Turks had already established themselves as a powerful state during this period.

The present study is the first of its kind dealing with India's overland trade with Central Asia and Persia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The book seeks to interpret the working of the political forces in India and her (less)

Introduction. 2.

Energy scenario of the Central Asian Republics: i. Oil sector.

ii. Kazakhstan.

iii. Turkmenistan.

iv. Uzbekistan.

v. Azerbaijan.

vi. GAS.

vii. Kazakhstan.

viii. Turkmenistan.

ix. Uzbekistan.

x. Azerbaijan.

xi. Hydro power.

3. India's energy scenario: i.

Energy cooperation with the region. 4.

Bilateral Cooperation: i. India-Kazakhstan relations.

ii. India-Uzbekistan relations.

iii. India-Turkmenistan relations.

iv. India-Tajikistan relations.

v. India-Kyrgyzstan relations.

vi. India-Azerbaijan relations.

Conclusion. 5.

Transport linkages: i. North South international transport corridor.

ii. Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India.

iii. India-Iran-Afghanistan.

6. Geopolitics of oil and gas.

Conclusion. Appendix.

Notes. Bibliography.

Index. "This monograph studies India's economic relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan.

Endowed with rich hydrocarbon reserves, the Central Asian republics provide India with a reliable alternative source of oil and gas. Hydroelectric projects with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the two republics rich in water resources, are also worth exploring.

Besides energy, there is scope for expanding cooperation to other areas for (less)

Introduction. 1.

India's involvement in anti-dumping cases in the first decade of WTO/K.D.

Raju. 2.

Calculating normal value as way of protection: some evident from Turkish dumping investigations/Cengiz Bahcekapili and Murat Cokgezen. 3.

Anti-dumping procedures: lessons for developing countries with special emphasis on the South African experience/Nicola Theron. 4.

The growing problem of intra-developing country anti-dumping actions in world trade/Kofi Oteng Kufuor. 5.

The rhetoric and reality of US Anti-Dumping Law/Brink Lindsey and Daniel Ikenson. 6.

Anti-Dumping in the European Union/Fredrik Erixon. 7.

Why is China the world's number one Anti-Dumping Target?/Yuefen Li. 8.

Misuse of Anti-Dumping Provisions: what do the WTO disputes reveal?/Debashis Chakraborty. Index.

"The increasing use of anti-dumping measures covering a wide range of sectors, both by developed and developing countries in recent years, indicates a policy substitution to protect domestic industries in the face of tariff reforms. While the developing countries are demanding special and different treatment to (less)

Fernandis W.S.

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Acknowledgements. 1.

Introduction. 2.

The Mujahideen and drug lords. 3.

The Taliban - patrons of the drug trade. 4.

Afghanistan - centre of Narcotics production and drug trafficking. 5.

Drug money and the arms trade. 6.

Implications for regional security. 7.

Conclusion. Bibliography.

Index. "In a country awash with weapons and drugs, where the global system of exchange - the currency - had been devalued to such an extent that it has been more lucrative to use opium as a form of barter, Afghanistan has become one of the poorest countries in the world.

Yet the most stupendous growth in Afghanistan has been of the Narcotics industry. The irony of the situation in Afghanistan is that it was during the United Nation's decade against drug abuse between 1991 and 2001 that the country earned the mantle of being at the center of the global Narcotics trade.

It is in this backdrop that (less)

Forests and wildlife protection - Historical perspective. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

Legal and policy overview of CITES in Nepal. Legal and policy overview of CITES in India.

CITES implementation in Nepal and India- legislative and administrative problems. Conclusion and Suggestions.

Bibliography. Annexures.

Index. "The convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) seeks international cooperation to protect listed wildlife species from threats of over-exploration, including their trade.

Nepal and India as signatories and parties to CITES have international obligations to control the trade of products made from any parts of wildlife that are protected, endangered or threatened with extinction. The book is an outcome of a legal and policy research work on the concerned field.

Thus, one can find an in-depth analysis of the CITES implementation status in Nepal and India. The book also attempts to suggest (less)

Activities such as soliciting men, pimping and procuring women and girls for prostitution were banned in identical ways in multiple eras. Across the same hundred years, commercial sex grew vast in scale, and Bombay became a node in a transnational sex trade circuit.

This book argues that while the expansion of Bombay's sex trade over the past century might suggest that laws were simply ineffectual, law making was instead a productive process that sustained particular forms of prostitution. In examining this dimension of colonial governance, Tambe evaluates the uses and limits of Foucault's approach to law and sexuality (less)