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Free Download Asia after Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth Century by Sugata Bose
English | February 20th, 2024 | ISBN: 0674423496 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 30.94 MB
A concise new history of a century of struggles to define Asian identity and express alternatives to European forms of universalism.

Free Download D. Suba Chandran, P. R. Chari, "Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2008"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138380296, 0415476224 | EPUB | pages: 292 | 0.7 mb
This book examines the major armed conflicts in South Asia ― in India (with special reference to the Northeast, Jammu & Kashmir and the Naxalites), Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Designed as an annual series, the articles cover a set of issues across volumes. Each article provides a brief historical sketch of the emergence of armed conflict and outlines its various phases. The roles, objectives and strategies of the major state, non-state and international actors are critically evaluated.

Free Download Urbanization in Asia: Governance, Infrastructure and the Environment By Kala S. Sridhar, Guanghua Wan (auth.), Kala Seetharam Sridhar, Guanghua Wan (eds.)
2014 | 287 Pages | ISBN: 8132216377 | PDF | 7 MB
This work focuses on urban governance in the developing world, its aim being to bring a holistic perspective to the debate on urban governance in Asia and around the globe. It has been divided into three sections: The first section is on rural interventions as they influence urbanization and its problems/solutions. The second focuses on urban governance, infrastructure programs, service delivery reforms and their evaluation. The third and final section focuses on urbanization and the environment.In the first section, we present evaluations of India’s rural programs including the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), and of India’s Total Sanitation Campaign. This section covers the transition from rural to urban areas, and highlights coping mechanisms in urban areas and policy implications for urban governance, from the viewpoint of rural migrants.The section on urban governance, infrastructure and service delivery is the most in-depth and consists of papers that present state-of-the-art research on many aspects of infrastructure such as cost and time overruns, risks and their mitigation, assessments of the metro rail, and services such as solid waste management.The focus of the final section is on urbanization and the environment. Here we examine land use change in India, the relationship between urban form and residential energy use in Bandung, Indonesia, and end by depicting a cautiously optimistic view of Asia’s urbanization-environment nexus.

Free Download The Chinese In Southeast Asia And Beyond: Socioeconomic and Political Dimensions By Ching-Hwang Yen
2008 | 458 Pages | ISBN: 9812790470 | PDF | 4 MB
The Chinese in Southeast Asia, with their growing economic clout, have been attracting attention from politicians, scholars and observers in recent decades. The rise of China as a global economic power and its profound influence over Southeast Asia has cast a spotlight on the role of Southeast Asian Chinese in the region s economic relations with China. The Southeast Asian Chinese as an economic force and their growing importance with China are, to a certain extent, determined by the nature and development of their communities. This book uses a multifaceted approach to unravel the forces that helped to transform the communities in the past. Containing 17 papers written within a span of six and a half years, from 2000 to 2006, the book focuses on the social, economic and political aspects of these communities, with special emphasis on the Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore. Contents: The Chinese in Malaysia and Singapore: Malaysian Chinese Society in Transition (1903 2003); A Century of Chinese Business in Malaysia (1904 2004); The Role of Hokkiens in the History of Malaysia and Singapore; Kinship and Organization: The History of the Gan (Yan or Yen) Clansmen in Singapore and Malaysia (1850 1993); The Development and Future of the Chinese Kinship Associations in Singapore and Malaysia; Reflections on My Study of Ethic Chinese History in Singapore and Malaysia; Sun Yat-Sen and the Chinese in Singapore and Malaya (1900 1911); Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-Sen, and the Chinese in Singapore and Malaya: A Revisit; Lim Lian Geok and His Struggle for the Chinese Education in Malaya (1949 1961); The Chinese in Southeast Asia and Beyond: Social Change in the Ethnic (Overseas) Chinese Communities: A Historical Perspective; A Preliminary Study of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia (1842 1941); Confucianism and the Ethnic Chinese Business in East and Southeast Asia; The Overseas Chinese Nationalism: A Historical Study; Nanyang Chinese and the 1911 Revolution; Hakka Chinese in Southeast Asian History; Hong Kong, China, and the Overseas Chinese; Dr Sun Yat-Sen and 21st Century China.

Free Download Chiara Formichi, "Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia"
English | ISBN: 1032106646 | 2024 | 370 pages | PDF | 106 MB
The Routledge Handbook on Islam in Asia offers both new and established scholarship on Muslim societies and religious practices across Asia, from a variety of interdisciplinary angles, with chapters covering South, Central, East and Southeast Asia, as well as Africa-Asia connections.

Free Download Promoting Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation: Perspectives from East Asia By Yong Deng
1997 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 0333691210 | PDF | 11 MB
Attempts to integrate the Pacific regional economy accelerated sharply with the formation of the regionwide, official Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in 1989. This book probes into the distinctive process of regional cooperation in Asia-Pacific by focusing on the roles and perspectives of China, Japan, and Southeast Asian states. Asian developments shaping the new post-hegemonic global political economy challenge traditional models in international relations, which is here challenged to take East Asia seriously.

Free Download Ayesha Jalal, "Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia"
English | ISBN: 1032835729 | 2024 | 320 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia is an engaging history of the enlightened liberality of modern Muslim poets, philosophers, educationists, novelists, historians, artists and public intellectuals who drew on a long Muslim intellectual tradition beyond the "Western" liberalism of empire.

Free Download Lonely Planet Southeast Asia By China Williams, Shawn Low, Ryan Ver Berkmoes
2012 | 973 Pages | ISBN: 174179854X | EPUB | 9 MB
The Best-Selling Guide to Southeast AsiaWhere Will It Take you?Get Off the Beaten TrackEasy-to-use maps help you discover the highlights and hidden gems that will make your trip unique.Discover Amazing ExperiencesInspirational images and a new planning section will help you unlock the perfect trip.Go Further on Your BudgetWe’ve found the best value for any budget so you can plan the trip you really want.Why You Can Trust Us…Our job is to make amazing travel experiences happen. We visit the places we write about each and every edition. We never take freebies for positive coverage, so you can always rely on us to tell it like it is.

Free Download Tariq Rahman, "Interpretations of Jihad in South Asia: An Intellectual History"
English | ISBN: 311055027X | 2018 | 336 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In the wake of radical Islamist terrorist attacks described as jihad worldwide and in South Asia, it is imperative that there should be a book-length study of this idea in this part of the world. The focus of the study is the idea of jihad with its changing interpretations mostly those available in exegetical literature of key figures in South Asia. The hermeneutic devices used to understand the meaning of the Quranic verses and the Prophetic traditions relating to jihad will be the focus of this study. The main thrust of the study is to understand how interpretations of jihad vary. It is seen as being both defensive and aggressive by traditionalists; only defensive and mainly about moral improvement by progressive Muslims; and being insurrectionist, aggressive, eternal and justifying violence against civilians by radical Islamists. One purpose of the book is to understand how the radical interpretation came to South Asia. The book also explains how theories about jihad are influenced by the political and social circumstances of the period and how these insights feed into practice legitimizing militant movements called jihad for that period.

Free Download International Production Networks in Asia: Rivalry or Riches By Michael Borrus, Dieter Ernst, Stephan Haggard
2000 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0415221706 | PDF | 4 MB
The economic crisis of 1997 called East Asia’s economic miracle into question and generated widespread criticism of the region’s developmental models. However, the crisis did little to alter the growing economic integration of American, Japanese and Chinese firms who have created cross-border production networks. This book addresses the changing nature of high-tech industries in Asia, particularly in the electronics sector, where such networks are increasingly designed to foster and to exploit the region’s highly heterogenous technology, skills and know-how.