Archive for March, 2010

China and India: Prospects for Peace

March 18th, 2010

Product Description
For all their spectacular growth, China and India must still lift a hundred million citizens out of poverty and create jobs for the numerous laborers. Both powers hope trade and investment will sustain national unity. For the first time, Jonathan Holslag identifies these objectives as new sources of rivalry and argues that China and India cannot grow without fierce contest.Though he recognizes that both countries wish to maintain stable relations, Holslag argues tha… More >>

China and India: Prospects for Peace

India Handbook, 17th: Travel guide to India with unparralleled coverage of the region

March 14th, 2010

  • ISBN13: 9781906098681
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Product Description
Incredible India: beaches and backwaters, temples and tea plantations. Whether one wants to escape it all with a rural retreat, learn yoga in Goa, hike the Himalayas, or be dazzled by Bollywood, this new edition of Footprint’s celebrated and authoritative guide will take travelers off the beaten track to experience the real India. The only guide to India updated annually, it’s full of up-to-the-minute recommendations for eating, sleeping, and drinking, plus deta… More >>

India Handbook, 17th: Travel guide to India with unparralleled coverage of the region

The Idea of India

March 12th, 2010

Product Description
The key book on India in the postnuclear era, with a new Introduction by the author.Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of the recent revelations of its nuclear capabilities. Sunil Khilnani’s exciting, timely study addresses the paradoxes and ironies of this, the world’s largest democracy. Throughout his penetrating, provocative work, he illuminates this fundamental issue: Can the original idea of India survive its own successes?More >>

The Idea of India