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28 August, 2012

Piri-Muridi Relationship: A Study of the Nizamuddin Dargah

By- Desiderio Pinto

The relationship between a spiritual master and his disciple (piri-muridi) becomes important when one witnesses day after day the large numbers of Muslims and non-Muslims flocking to spiritual masters (pirs) stationed at the various dargahs of India.

This work discovers that piri-muridi aims at making the disciple see God in all things
while very often allowing him to enjoy worldly success. This is achieved through a lengthy socialization process that spans a period of time ranging from twelve years to a lifetime. This socialization process is very painful, and some disciples (murids) run away. Most, however, remain bound to their pir, by their vow of allegiance to him, the pir’s friendliness, sympathy, material, magical and psychological assistance, and when that is not enough, fear of his
magical power.

During this period the murid learns to fall in love with the pir whom he strives to see as the representative of God, by observing, serving, and seeing the pir’s hand in everything that befalls him, and frequently recalling and concentrating on a mental image of the pir while believing that his actions are prompted by the pir. Having thus attained union with the pir, he one day suddenly realizes that the pir is just a curtain or veil that hides something else—that which he has truly loved all the time in the image of the pir is God himself.

The book is a mine of empirical information collected in the Nizamuddin dargah, showing how a set of beliefs contained in constantly narrated stories and experiences are used to forge, structure, maintain and further the relationship between the pir and his murid. It will be
of interest to scholars of Islam, Indian history and sociology, Sufi thought and the place of religion in the modern world.

Desiderio Pinto, S.J. taught at Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth. Presently he is teaching at Vidyajyoti College of Theology and other institutions of theology in Ranchi, Varanasi and Calcutta, and is also librarian at Vidyajyoti.

ISBN 81-7304-111-3 2006 356p. Rs.700/ Pounds 55

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Nuclear Risk Reduction Measures in South Asia: Problems and Prospects : RCSS Policy Studies 35

By-Upendra Choudhury

Published in association with Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo

The prospect of a nuclear war in South Asia has drawn global attention and concern. This book studies nuclear risks in the Indo-Pakistani and Sino-Indian contexts and suggests a wide range of measures by which India, Pakistan and China could reduce nuclear dangers in
South Asia.

The author argues that there is a direct link between a war or a near war situation and nuclear risks. If the India–Pakistan or the Sino-Indian relationships take a downward turn, three nuclear risks could raise their ugly heads. They include: the intentional use of nuclear weapons, accidental use of nuclear weapons and unauthorized use of nuclear weapons. This book shines a powerful light on the possibility of each of these three nuclear risks in detail.

Choudhury suggests that improvement in bilateral relations and nuclear risk reduction are organically linked and in view of the prevailing suspicion, mistrust and animosity among these three countries, it would be best for India, Pakistan and China to concentrate first on measures that can be implemented without requiring any significant changes in their current security policies. If these measures were implemented, they could lay the foundation for more significant measures at a later stage.

The only full-length study and a timely epilogue of latest nuclear dialogues between India and Pakistan, Nuclear Risk Reduction Measures in South Asia will be a standard reference not only for political scientists and strategic analysts, but also for policy makers, diplomats, journalists, defense personnel and the informed general reader.

Upendra Choudhury is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. He has received his Ph.D from CPS/SSS, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and published more than fifty articles and research papers in India and abroad. He has also presented papers in several national and international seminars/conferences.

ISBN 81-7304-661-1 2006 122p. Rs.250/ pounds 17.99

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Negotiating for India: Resolving Problems through Diplomacy

By- Jagat S. Mehta

This book is a chronological compilation of the author’s diplomatic experiences when,
during his Foreign Service career, he was involved in seven unconnected negotiating responsibilities. No other officer was entrusted with comparable burdens but he acknowledges that they came to him by bureaucratic happenstance. In the first three—accompanying Nehru to Bhutan (1958), leading the official team for India-China Boundary talks (1960), negotiating compensation for Indians expelled by Idi Amins’ Uganda (1975)—he was only a secretatriat official. During the last four—normalizing relations with Pakistan and negotiating Salal hydro-electric project on a ‘Pakistani’ river (1976), Farakka negotiaations with Bangladesh (1977), and separating Trade and Transit with Nepal (1978)—he was the Foreign Secretary which enabled him to recommend improvisations to resolve inherited deadlocks. Most negotiations were with unequal neighbours, which required anticipating the perceptions (and misperceptions) of the sovereign partners. Suspicions—justified or exaggerated—of coercion and hegemonism had to be assuaged.

Mehta also recalls the personalities of select colleagues and negotiating opposite numbers, the ablest amongst whom was Chang-wen-chin, his Chinese counterpart. According to Mehta dueling all day intellectually but toasting each other’s nations after sundown, symbolizes the unique calling of professional diplomacy.

Jagat S. Mehta was Foreign Secretary, Government of India, during 1976-79 appointed at a comparative young age of 53. After retirement, his primary interest has been in voluntarism for social and economic development. However, he has woven these with spells in academia. He was an Associate at Harvard Centre for International Affairs in 1980, Fellow at Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washingtonin 1981 and appointed Tom Slick Distinguished Professor of World Peace in Austin (Texas) in 1983. His predecessor in this chair included Nobel Laureates Gunnar and Alva Myrdal.

ISBN 81-7304-672-7 2006 314p. Rs.750/ pounds 50

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Nation State by Accident: The Politicization of Ethnic Groups and the Ethnicization of Politics: Bosnia, India, Pakistan

By- Carsten Wieland

In this comparative study of Muslim nation-building and the so-called ‘ethnic conflicts’ the author reveals stunning parallels between the collapse of Tito’s Yugoslavia and the ethno-
national separation of colonial India. In both cases Muslims ended up in a nation state of their own without the majority of them wanting one. There were no mass movements that
demanded a new ‘homeland’, which contradicts modernization-theory approaches of nationalism. Wieland digs below the surface and sketches historic developments that triggered the construction and instrumentalization of ‘ethnic groups’ in both cases.

He concludes that the term ethnicity has lost its academic value because it suffers from
inconsistencies and strong political implications. ‘Ethnicity’ is not an existing group of people but a concept of action and political resource detached from any historic context. The ‘ethnocenter’ varies. In both the Yugoslavian and the Indian case it was religion around which secondary features were added as contrast boosters.

Bosnia and Pakistan were founded under the strong influence of political elites and external political actors, like the colonial power or the international community, who themselves through within the ethno-national paradigm and acted accordingly. This helped to create Muslim nation states despite considerable contradictions between the political action group and the ‘ethnic group’ they claimed to represent. While delivering convincing facts and new
perspectives, this book is a passionate appeal for the deconstruction of ‘ethnic’ camps.

Carsten Wieland works with the Goethe Institute (Max Müller Bhavan). He was an editor and correspondent with the German Press-Agency (DPA) in Washington, Tel Aviv, Hanover and Bogota. As a free-lancer he worked from New Delhi and from the besieged city of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. Wieland studied history, political science, philosophy, and inter-national reltions at Humboldt University in Berlin, at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, and at Duke University in North Carolina (USA).

ISBN 81-7304-624-7 2006 456p. Rs.850/ Pounds 65

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Minorities and Police in India

By- Asghar Ali Engineer and Amarjit S. Narang (eds)

This timely volume analyses the attitude and orientation of police towards minorities in India’s plural, democratic, secular society and its behavior while dealing with them as groups particularly in communal riot situations. The essays written from diverse socio-cultural perspectives take into account the expected role of law enforcement agencies in plural democratic societies and India’s constitutional framework, also how far these agencies have stood up to that role and deviated from the same.

The essays take into account the colonial heritage, structure, training and working conditions of the police agencies to determine their attitude and behavior. Role of police has not been evaluated in isolation but in the framework of socio-political structures and processes. The reports of various commission and studies have also been analyzed and suggestions have been thoroughly examined. The purpose is not just to condemn the police but to evaluate the system in a manner which can be used for improving the situation.

Contributors include Kirpal Singh Dhillon, Prakash Louis, Abdulrahim Vijapur, R.K. Raghavan, Prem Dhar, Malaviya among many others.

Asghar Ali Engineer is Chairman, Centre for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai and Director, Institute of Islamic Studies. He is recipient of several awards including Right Livelihood Honorary Award and a renowned Human Rights activist and social reformer.

Amarjit S. Narang is Professor of Political Science and coordinator, Human Righs Education at Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He has participated in U.N. Human Rights Commission sessions for several years and writes extensively on issues related to Indian Politics, Human Rights and Ethnicity.

ISBN 81-7304-678-6 2006 226p. Rs.625/ Pounds 40

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Maritime Cooperation between India and Sri Lanka: RCSS Policy Studies 36

By- Adluri Subramanyam Raju and S.I. Keethaponcalan

Published in association with Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Colombo

Maritime boundary of India and Sri Lanka is divided at three different points in different seas: the Bay of Bengal in the north, the Palk Straits in the middle, and the Gulf of Mannar in the South. The maximum distance between these two countries in the Palk Straits is about 45 km. and the minimum distance is around 16 km. between Dhanushkodi on the Indian side and Thalaimannar on the Sri Lankan coast. They don’t have Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) in the area. They have rights over 12 to 22 km. of water. The countries signed bilateral agreements on the Kachchativu Island in June 1974 and on the maritime boundary in the Gulf of Mannar and the Bay of Bengal in March 1976. However, there are some contentious issues between them. The study has analysed the various maritime issues between India and Sri Lanka.

The work focuses on the reasonable options available to both countries. It brings out a new perspective on the problem between a larger and a smaller country. Moreover, some of the issues in maritime relations directly and indirectly affect lives of communities in and around the coastal areas. A systematic analysis of these issues may imporve understanding of the
dynamics of the problems at hand among policy makers, most of whom are largely
disconnected from the ground realities. Such an understanding may help resolve some of the problems faced by these communities.

Adluri Subramanyam Raju is a Honorary Academic Fellow at the Indo-American Centre for International Studies, Hyderabad and Associate Editor for Indian Ocean Survey. He was Salzburg Seminar Fellow (2006), recipient of the Mahbub-ul-Haq Award (2003), Scholar of Peace (2002) and Kodikara Award (1998). He has published five books and more than a dozen articles.

S.I. Keethaponcalan is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and Public Policy, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He holds a masters and a doctoral degree in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, Virginia and Nova Southeastern University, Florida respectively. He has published widely on issues relating to Sri Lanka and South Asia.

ISBN 81-7304-690-5 2006 126p. Rs.250/ Pounds 17.99

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Interrogating Social Development: Global Perspectives and Local Initiatives

By- Debal K. SinghaRoy

This collection of essays shows that as the developmental processes have not positively impacted all sections of the society, due to inherited socio-cultural considerations on the one hand and the state failure to ensure equity to all its citizen on the other, pre-existing social imbalances have been reproduced and furthered keeping vast sections of the population persistently poor, illiterate, in ill-health, un/underemployed, homeless, voiceless, and vulnerable. Beside elaborating the dominant perspectives of social development, it also elucidates several developmental initiatives undertaken among the tribes, dalits, forest dwellers, women, physically challenged, sex-workers in various parts of the country and recorded emerging praxes of social development that have emerged from the grass-roots experiences of cooperative activisms. Self-Help Group initiatives, corporate social partnerships, interactivity of marginalized communities, and ICTs interventions.

This collection would be of immense use to students, researchers, teachers of sociology, political science, economics, history, public administration, social psychology and development studies and civil society activists, planners, executives and politicians dealing with the issues of social development, marginalization and social exclusion.

Debal K. SinghaRoy is Professor of Sociology, in the Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University. He is a recipient of the Australian Government Endeavour Fellowship, 2010.

ISBN 978-81-7304-871-5 2010 474p. Rs.1250/ pounds 65

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Eastern India in the Late Nineteenth Century (Part II: 1880s-1890s): Documents on Economic History of British Rule in India, 1858-1947

Eastern India in the Late Nineteenth Century (Part II: 1880s-1890s): Documents on Economic History of British Rule in India, 1858-1947

By- Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay (eds.)

The Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) has recently revived its Major Project on the collection and collation of important documents pertaining to the economic history of British rule in India covering the period 1858-1947. Economic history is taken here in the widest possible meaning of the term, covering data and developments judged significant from the economic, social, cultural ecological history of the country. The present volume is concerned with a wide range of economic documents for Eastern India covered by the Bengal Presidency of British India in the late nineteenth century.

The volume is divided into two parts, Part I (1860s-1870s) and Part II (1880s-1890s). The Part I has been published in 2009. The Part II contains documents on economic history of the region in the last two decades of the nineteenth century when the mark of the new administration of the British Raj was felt by the people in myriad ways. These documents do reflect on the economic conditions of the people in diverse fields, often culminated by the more dramatic presence of scarcity or famines. Accordingly, data are collected from a wide spectrum of human activity reflected in diverse fields such as agriculture, forestry, population, public health, education and sanitation. A considerable part of these documents is presented in statistical forms, particularly connected with Public Health, Agricultural prices and Export–Import trade. In minute details, these documents touch on a wide variety data on agricultural operations, agricultural appliances, material conditions of agricultural classes, population change, health and mortality, literacy and primary education, value of livestock and cattle diseases, production and export of cash crops, production and supply of food grains, distribution of waste lands, forests and reclamation of jungle lands, tenural disputes, and scarcity and famines.

The work is expected to be an important source for students of the history of economic and human development in India.

Amiya Kumar Bagchi is Professor of economics, Director, institute of Development Studies Kolkata and first Chancellor of Tripura Central University.

Arun Bandopadhyay is current Nurul Hasan Professor of History and formerly Dean of the Faculty Council for Postgraduate Studies in Arts at the University of Calcutta.

ISBN 81-7304-889-0 2011 780p. Rs.2350/ Pounds 150

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Eastern India in the Late Nineteenth Century (Part I: 1860s-1870s): Documents on Economic History of British Rule in India, 1858-1947

By- Amiya Kumar Bagchi and Arun Bandopadhyay (Eds.)

The Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) has recently revived its Major Project on the collection and collation of important documents pertaining to the economic history of British rule in India covering the period 1858-1947. Economic history is taken here in the widest possible meaning of the term, covering data and developments judged significant from the economic, social, cultural ecological history of the country. The present volume is concerned with a wide range of economic documents for Eastern India covered by the Bengal Presidency of British India in the late nineteenth century.

The volume is divided into two parts, Part I (1860s-1870s) and Part II (1880s-1890s). Part I contains documents on economic history of the region in the early decades after the administration of India was taken over from the East India Company by the British Parliament. These documents display the plight of the people, often culminating in famines and epidemics. The collected data relate to diverse fields such as agriculture, forestry, population, public health, education and sanitation. Official data on agricultural operations, agricultural appliances, material conditions of agricultural classes, population change, health and mortality, literacy and primary education, value of livestock and cattle diseases, production and export of cash crops, production and supply of food grains, distribution of waste lands, forests and reclamation of jungle lands, tenurial disputes and demarcation of village lands, are to be found here.

The work is expected to be an important resource for students of the history of economic and human development of India.

Amiya Kumar Bagchi is Professor of economics, Director, institute of Development Studies Kolkata and first Chancellor of Tripura Central University.

Arun Bandopadhyay is current Nurul Hasan Professor of History and formerly Dean of the Faculty Council for Postgraduate Studies in Arts at the University of Calcutta.

ISBN 978-81-7304-825-8 2009 462p. Rs.1375/ pounds 110

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