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This personal reflection of more than 40 years' work on the supply of labour in a household context discusses the relationship between social science history (the application to historical phenomena of the tools developed by social scientists) and local population studies. The paper concludes that historians working on local source materials can give something new back to social scientists and social science historians, urging them to remake their tools.

Mainstream US Conceptions of a Rising China: Offering Lessons for the US Policy Makers -- Critical Anglo-American Conceptions of a Rising China: Alternative Visions for a Just World Order -- Mainstream Chinese Conceptions of a Rising China: Offering Lessons for the Party Elite -- Critical and Neo-Conservative Chinese Conceptions of a Rising China: Alternative Visions for the Future.

Malaysian Economy, Income Distribution and Public Expenditure -- Social Accounting Matrix as a Framework to Analyze the Impact of Public Expenditure on Income Distribution -- Analysis on the Impact of Public Expenditure on Income Distribution -- Implications For Policy In Public Expenditure.

Introduction -- Part I: Enter the Nexus. No Security, No Development -- Team of Buddies Visit Pakistan -- Part II: The National Security Turf. Between Do More and No More -- Help me, or Else! -- Part III: The Civil- Military Conundrum -- Engineering a Power Shift -- The Enemy of My Enemy -- Conclusion.

Postcolonial Predicament and the Problématique of State Security in South Asia -- Westphalia and Its Discontents -- Pakistan's Tryst with Postcolonial History and the Ontology of its State Behaviour -- The 1947 Cataclysm and the Making of Pakistan's India-Centred Problematique of State Security -- Constructing the Threat of a Hindu India.

This book evaluates the promise of human progress and secularism in grand political narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, comparing counter-narratives of South Asia within the context of a fast-changing twenty-first century. The book embraces a broad range of sources and theoretical approaches that include political philosophy, film, and ideological discourse analysis. In the twenty-first century, global inequality and significant growth of religious and majoritarian nationalisms have been appended with a protracted economic slowdown and recession in many countries. Examining what went wrong in terms of secularism and distributive justice in India, this book critiques the Euro-American visions of democracy, global capitalism, and their so-called universality. As an alternative, it proposes a progressive politics of radical democracy for the Indian people. Reconsidering alternatives to capitalism, western secularism and the radical possibilities of Islamism, Political Theory and South Asian Counter-Narratives will appeal to students and scholars of political theory, international relations, global history, and South Asian politics.

Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Vorwort -- Einleitung -- A. Geographie und Geschichte -- I. Geographisch-historischer Überblick und die Lage von As-Saih- Badr -- I I . Untersuchungsgebiet As-Saih-Badr -- B. Sozialökonomische Verhältnisse der Bevölkerung von As-Saih-Badr -- I. Bäuerliche Bevölkerung -- II. Händler, Handwerker und Angestellte -- C. Politisch-administrative Verhältnisse und die Rolle der Traditionen -- I. Administration -- II. Bildungswesen -- III. Information der Bevölkerung und die Rolle der neuen Organisationen -- IV. Rolle der Traditionen -- Summary -- Literaturverzeichnis -- Glossar der im Text vorkommenden arabischen Begriffe

Introduction : interdisciplinary perspectives on Indian nationalism / Debajyoti Biswas -- The founder of Hindu nationalism? : representation of Shivaji in Philip Meadows Taylor's Tara / Ayusman Chakraborty -- Nation-in-translation : interrogating the ethno-cultural discourse of nation-ness in Anandamath / Sanjukta Chatterjee -- Proto-nationalist spectacle on nineteenth-century Bengali stage / Sib Sankar Majumder -- From revolt to rustication : Urdu and the Indian national imagination (1857-1947) / Dhurjjati Sarma -- Divided nations, unified sensibilities : tales of the woe of the partition of the Indian subcontinent / Susheel Kumar Sharma -- The question of language in the mothering of a territory : understanding conflicts in embodiment of territories in a multilingual space / Atul Kumar Singh & Prabha Shankar Dwivedi -- Nationalism through the glorification of a precolonial Indian past in the work of Chandamama / Aloysius Sebastian -- Re-examining nationalism and Hindu religious rhetoric in India : a reading of Arundhati Roy's The ministry of utmost happiness / Anjan Saikia -- Unacceptable citizens : queer communities and homonationalism in India / Himadri Roy -- The 'queer nation' : moving beyond boundaries? : a study of select South Asian novels / Pratusha Bhowmik -- Expression of ecological nationalism in the lyrical narratives of Bhupen Hazarika / Pankaj Jyoti Gogoi -- This is our homeland. Out with foreign infiltrators : a study of geography, nationalism and ethnicity in Mitra Phukan's The collector's wife / Anindya Sundar Paul -- Reconfiguring Indian nationalism / Debajyoti Biswas.

"This book uses an innovative people-centred approach to the Kashmir problem to shed new light on why postcolonial partitions remain unfinished, and why the wounds of postcolonial nation-state formation in South Asia continue to fester. "Kashmir" is viewed as a metaphor for the permanent internal wars of partition that mark the South Asian experience. Chapters sensitively bring Kashmiri voices to the fore to examine Kashmir in the national discourses of India and Pakistan, resistance in the Kashmiri imagination, and the Kashmir conflict in a global context. The book foregrounds how the space of Kashmir as a cultural, historical and political sphere persists and continues to haunt the postcolonial national present as the people of Kashmir and their cultural, literary and artistic productions cannot be contained within the regnant paradigms of the nations across which the region is partitioned. Additionally, the book explores how long-term resolution would demand engagement with historical forces, political actors, and social formations that exceed the nation-state. An important contribution to the study of this troubled region, this book will be of interest to academics and researchers of modern South Asian history and politics as well as comparative politics and international relations"--

AbstractFor writing this invited paper, I was given the title Ethnic Groups of Iran and I was also asked to inform the reader/audience about the general situation of anthropology in the country. Specific questions were asked and the first part of this paper responds to those questions. The second part can be best understood if at the time of the reading reference could be made to the site mentioned in the article.A few articles and one book have discussed the history of the field of anthropology in Iran and they are discussed in this text. This field has had great difficulty trying to establish itself in the country due to the sensitivity of the political machine of the country which at times it did not really understand its topic, and at others was sensitive to the information it could bring from rural and pastoral areas of Iran to the center and critically consider the activities of the government. Transparency of political activities have always been at odds with social sciences, and this can clearly be seen in the problems anthropology has had to face to establish itself. The very name of the field has been problematic and this also shows the lack of discussion of the erudite of the field in a clear manner. Today this field is dispersed in various faculties of different universities and topics.The second part of this paper concentrates on my own work on the ethnic groups of country, and a map and a site which I have made to represent the active cultural life of all different peoples of Iran. My anthropological knowledge has helped me to divide the work according first to subsistence (pastoral nomadic, rural and urban), and then according to cultural characteristics and my hope is to continue this work which has been a very important lack in Human Relations Area Files. So far I only have some titles in English, its translation into English could disseminate the information to the anthropological scientific world.

Many scholars and activists seek to eliminate "race"—the word and the concept—from our vocabulary. Their claim is clear: because science has shown that racial essentialism is false and because the idea of race has proved virulent, we should do away with the concept entirely. Michael O. Hardimon criticizes this line of thinking, arguing that we must recognize the real ways in which race exists in order to revise our understanding of its significance. Rethinking Race provides a novel answer to the question "What is race?" Pernicious, traditional racialism maintains that people can be judged and ranked according to innate racial features. Hardimon points out that those who would eliminate race make the mistake of associating the word only with this view. He agrees that this concept should be jettisoned, but draws a distinction with three alternative ideas: first, a stripped-down version of the ordinary concept of race that recognizes minimal physical differences between races but does not consider them significant; second, a scientific understanding of populations with shared lines of descent; and third, an acknowledgment of "socialrace" as a separate construction. Hardimon provides a language for understanding the ways in which races do and do not exist. His account is realistic in recognizing the physical features of races, as well as the existence of races in our social world. But it is deflationary in rejecting the concept of hierarchical or defining racial characteristics. Ultimately, Rethinking Race offers a philosophical basis for repudiating racism without blinding ourselves to reality.