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Free Download Ujjaini Mukhopadhyay, "Internal Migration Within South Asia: Contemporary Issues and Challenges"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 981166143X, 9811661464 | PDF | pages: 267 | 6.5 mb
This book critically discusses the multi-dimensional contemporary issues within the ambit of the driving forces, mechanisms, vulnerability, and opportunities of the intra-region human movement in South Asia. It covers different dimensions of cross-border migration within South Asia as well as internal migration particularly in India, reflecting upon both voluntary and forced movements. It traces the trajectory and past trends in migration in the South Asian countries. It evaluates the vulnerability of refugees and stateless vis-à-vis state policies. Issues regarding Rohingya refugees from Myanmar to Bangladesh, Nepalese immigration to India, the crisis around Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, Afghan returnee refugees from Pakistan and Iran, resettlement of Bhutanese refugees are explored in the chapters. It also analyzes the impact on wage inequality due to emigration, the crucial role of social capital in migration decisions, and socio-economic vulnerabilities of women migrants in India.This book provides a clear understanding of international and internal migration in South Asia for students and academics, and a valuable resource for policy-makers and planners in development studies, regional development, and South Asian studies.

Free Download Daniel Douek, "Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1849048800 | PDF | pages: 530 | 4.4 mb
South Africa’s transition to democracy took place against a backdrop of shadow war between the apartheid regime’s counterinsurgency forces and the African National Congress’ armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). This book analyses in unprecedented detail the hidden history of MK’s struggle and its contribution to South Africa’s liberation, while exposing new dimensions of clandestine apartheid-era violence. Drawing on interviews with former MK guerrillas, Daniel Douek traces the evolution of MK’s operations across southern Africa from the 1960s, culminating in the 1990-4 negotiations between the ANC and the white supremacist regime. As political violence escalated, the battle waged in the shadows became nothing less than a struggle to shape South Africa’s future. Counterinsurgency forces recruited spies, deployed death squads, engaged in psychological warfare, and targeted ANC leaders, including MK chief Chris Hani. Even once ANC elites had come to power, apartheid counterinsurgency operations continued to undermine South Africa’s new democracy by marginalizing MK guerrillas within the ‘new’ security forces, leaving legacies of violence and instability still felt today.

Free Download Ndongo Samba Sylla, "Imperialism and the Political Economy of Global South’s Debt "
English | ISBN: 1802624848 | 2023 | 264 pages | PDF | 9 MB
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the nagging issue of the Global South’s debt back into the spotlight. With declining export earnings and tax revenues, many countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia have found themselves objectively unable to service their foreign currency debt. This situation, reminiscent of the international debt crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, is the backdrop of the 38th volume of the Research in Political Economy series edited by Ndongo Samba Sylla.

Free Download Nissim Mannathukkaren, "Hindu Nationalism in South India "
English | ISBN: 1032003065 | 2024 | 256 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Hindu Nationalism in South India engages with a range of factors that shapes the trajectory of Hindu nationalism in Kerala, the southern state of India.

Free Download Arun Kumar Patnaik, "Gramsci and South Asia"
English | ISBN: 1032264896 | 2024 | 256 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Gramsci’s theory of common sense is a metanarrative that can be used to explain both religion and political formations. This book examines Gramsci’s perspective and how his theories translate into South Asian society. It explores Gramsci’s historicism, which is sensitive to historical, regional and national differences, and its relevance in post-colonial societies.

Free Download Fodor’s Black Hills of South Dakota: With Mount Rushmore and Badlands National Park (Full-color Travel Guide), 2nd Edition by Fodor’s Travel Guides
English | July 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1640976965 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 83.56 MB
Whether you want to marvel at Mount Rushmore, stroll the historic Wild West town of Deadwood, or explore Badlands National Park, the local Fodor’s travel experts in South Dakota are here to help! Fodor’s Black Hills of South Dakotaguidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This brand new edition has an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.

Free Download Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire by John N. Maclean
English | September 22, 1999 | ISBN: 0688144772 | 288 pages | EPUB | 12 Mb
When, on the morning of July 3, 1994, the site of a forest fire on Storm King Mountain in Colorado was wrongly recorded as taking place at South Canyon, it became the first of a series of seemingly small human errors that, three days later, led to the deaths of fourteen fire fighters, including four women. Fire on the Mountain sets out to answer three mysteries that surrounded the blaze: Why wasn’t the fire, which could be seen clearly from an interstate highway, put out earlier? Why did Don Mackey, a smoke jumper who was already a legend in his own time, turn back to the fire after making his way to safety? And how could such a seasoned group of fire fighting professionals be caught off guard so badly?

Free Download Ivor Chipkin, "Do South Africans Exist?: Nationalism, Democracy and the Identity of ‘the People’"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 1868144453 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.9 mb
Do South Africans Exist? Addresses a gap in contemporary studies of nationalism and the nation, providing a critical study of South African nationalism against a broader context of African nationalism in general. Narratives of resistance, telling of African peoples oppressed and exploited, presume that ‘the people’ preceded the period of nationalist struggle. This book explores how an African ‘people’ came into being in the first place, particularly in the South African context, as a collectivity organised in pursuit of a political – and not simply cultural – end. The author argues that the nation is a political community whose form is given in relation to the pursuit of democracy and freedom, and that if democratic authority is lodged in ‘the people’, what matters is the way that this ‘people’ is defined, delimited and produced. He argues that the nation precedes the state, not because it has always existed, but because it emerges in and through the nationalist struggle for state power. Ultimately, he encourages the reader to re-evaluate knee-jerk judgements about the failure of modernity in Africa.

Free Download Melissa Kean, "Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0807133582, 0807154474 | EPUB | pages: 333 | 0.5 mb
After World War II, elite private universities in the South faced growing calls for desegregation. Though, unlike their peer public institutions, no federal court ordered these schools to admit black students and no troops arrived to protect access to the schools, to suggest that desegregation at these universities took place voluntarily would be misleading In Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South,Melissa Kean explores how leaders at five of the region’s most prestigious private universities – Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt – sought to strengthen their national position and reputation while simultaneously answering the increasing pressure to end segregation.

Free Download Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861 by Robert W. Merry
English | July 23, 2024 | ISBN: 1982176490 | True EPUB | 528 pages | 39.9 MB
Exploring a critical lesson about our nation that is as timely today as ever, Decade of Disunion shows how the country came apart during the enveloping slavery crisis of the 1850s.