War and Peace in Post-Colonial Ceylon 1948-1991
by Adrian Wijemanne
Orient Longman Limited, New Delhi, 1996
INR 180 ISBN 81 250 0364 9
Everybody Loves a Good Drought
by P. Sainath
Penguin Books India, New Delhi, 1996
ISBN 0 14 25984 8
In the early 1980s, villagers in Naupada district in India´s
Human Development in South Asia 1997
by Mahbub ul Haq
Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1997
ISBN 0 19 577773 5
Tibet: The Road Ahead
by Dawa Norbu Harper Collins Publishers India, New
Delhi, 1997 INR 395, pp 378, ISBN 81 7223 238 1
Contemporary books about pre-1950 Tibet tend to
Environmental Politics
People´s Lives and Developmental Choices
by Sumi Krishna
Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1996
Writings on the theorisation of the relationship between environment and development, realistic or spiritualistic,
India´s Northeast Resurgent
Ethnicity, Insurgency, Governance and Development
by B.G. Verghese
Konark Publishers, Delhi, 1996
475 pages.
This book is a product of some sustained thinking, if not
Wonders of the Karakorum
by Pervez A. Khan
Ferozsons, Rawalpindi, 1996
160 pages, 87 colour plates, 2 maps
While climbing in the Siachen Glacier, in the eastern Karakoram, I have
A Season in Heaven:
True Tales from the Road to Kathmandu
by David Tomory
Harper Collins, London, 1996
pp 237, GBP 4.95 ISBN 1 85538 444 2
This entertaining
My South Block Years:
Memoirs of a Foreign Secretary
J.N. Dixit
UBS Publishers and Distributors, Delhi, 1996 INR 395, ISBN 81 7476 132 2
Indira Gandhi listened attentively as
Great Powers and South Asia: Post-Cold War Trends
by Maqbool A. Bhatty
Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad, 1996
247 pages
The Indus Saga and the Making of Pakistan
by Aitzaz Ahsan
Oxford University Press, Karachi, 1996
413 pages
Studies in Nepali History and Society
Vol 1 No 1
Edited by Pratyoush Onta, Mary des Chene et al
Mandala Book Point, Kathmandu, June 1996