The geopolitics of South Asia
Subtitle: from early empires to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
By: Graham P. Chapman.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Aldershot, England; Burlington, Vermont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Geopolitics -- South Asia.; South Asia -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Brahma and Manu: Of Mountains and Rivers, Gods and Men; title: 1.1 The Land; title: 1.2 The People; title: 1.3 Society Crystallises; title: 1.4 The Epic Ages; title: 1.5 The New Religions; title: 1.6 The First Empire; title: 1.7 The Hindu Empires; title: 1.8 Concluding Remarks; title: 2 Hinduism: The Manifold of Man and God; title: 2.1 An Unrevealed Truth; title: 2.2 Cosmologies East and West; title: 2.3 The Three Paths to God; title: 2.4 Lineage and Caste; title: 2.5 The Thousands of Separate Castes in India; title: 2.6 Pollution and the Hierarchy of Caste; title: 2.7 Maya; title: 2.8 Caste and Hinduism in the Contemporary Era; title: 2.9 Concluding Remarks; title: 3 Islam: Submission to the One True God; title: 3.1 The Prophet; title: 3.2 The Word of Allah; title: 3.3 Muslim Law: The Sharia; title: 3.4 The Spreading Fire; title: 3.5 The Submission of India; title: 3.6 Persecution and Resistance; title: 3.7 Vijayanagar; title: 3.8 Second Foundation: The Mogul Empire; title: 3.9 Imperial Government under Akbar; title: 3.10 The Empire in Extremis and Decline; title: 3.11 The Legacy of Islam; title: 3.12 Hindu-Muslim Relations; title: PART II: THE BRITISH RAJ; title: 4 The Usurpers: The Life and Death of John Company; title: 4.1 Preface: Changing Britain; title: 4.2 European Expansion; title: 4.3 The East India Company; title: 4.4 The Pattern of Trade and its Growth; title: 4.5 Rivalry with the French; title: 4.6 The Acquisition of Bengal; title: 4.7 The Struggle to Assert Control; title: 4.8 Trusteeship and Reform; title: 4.9 The Mutiny and Divorce; title: 5 A New Geography: A New Economy; title: 5.1 The Railroading of Empire; title: 5.2 Irrigation; title: 5.3 The Land of the Five Rivers; title: 5.4 International Trade in the 19" Century and the Balance; title: of Payments; title: 5.5 The New Geography; title: 5.6 The Language of Empire; title: 5.7 A Necessary Understatement; title: 5.8 Concluding Remarks; title: 6 The New Nationalisms and the Politics of Reaction; title: 6.1 Contesting Dynamics; title: 6.2 The Structure of Government in British India and the; title: Problem of an Evolutionary Transfer of Power; title: 6.3 The Process of Constitutional Concession; title: 6.4 Gandhi and the Nationalist Response; title: 6.5 The Two Nations; title: PART HI: THE SUCCESSOR STATES; title: 7 Divide and Quit; title: 7.1 Pride and Prejudice: The Search for Unity in Western; title: Europe; title: 7.2 Pride and Prejudice: Recrimination and Divorce in; title: South Asia; title: 7.3 Territorial Options; title: 7.4 The Decree Nisi; title: 7.5 Concluding Remarks; title: 8 New Lines on the Map; title: 8.1 Introduction; title: 8.2 Radcliffe's New Map; title: 8.3 The Second Partition of Bengal; title: 8.4 The Princely States; title: 8.4.1 Junagadh; title: 8.4.2 Hyderabad; title: 8.4.3 Jamnu and Kashmir; title: 8.5 The Human Flotsam; title: 8.6 The Divided Inheritance; title: 8.7 Concluding Remarks; title: 9 From Two to Three: The Birth of Bangladesh; title: 9.1 Introduction; title: 9.2 Unequal Development in Pakistan; title: 9.3 Language and Representation; title: 9.4 The Military Cost of Pakistan; title: 9.5 The South Asian Roots of Bangladesh; title: 9.6 Concluding Remarks; title: 10 Raj and Swaraj: Regionalism and Integration in the; title: Successor States; title: .10.1 Introduction; title: 10.2 The Integration of the Princely States; title: 10.2.1 India; title: 10.2.2 Pakistan; title: 10.3 Territorial Redefinition in India and the Emergence of; title: Linguistic States; title: 10.4 The Centre-Province Balance and Pakistan's Search for; title: a Constitution; title: 10.5 Regionalism post 1972 in the Residual Pakistan; title: 10.6 Concluding Remarks; title: 11 The Power Upstream; title: 11.1 Introduction; title: 11.2 Hydro-politics in the Indus Basin; title: 11.3 Sharing the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin; title: 11.3.1 Farakka Barrage; title: 11.3.2 Floods in Bangladesh; title: 11.4 Concluding Remarks; title: 12 The Greater Game; title: 12.1 Geopolitics; title: 12.2 Antagonists and Protagonists since 1947: The Actors; title: 12.2.1 The Soviet Union/Russia; title: 12.2.2 The USA; title: 12.2.3 China, Tibet and the Himalayan War; title: 12.2.4 Pakistan and the Afghan War; title: 12.2.5 Kashmir; title: 12.2.6 Bangladesh; title: 12.2.7 India; title: 12.2.8 SAARC (The South Asian Associationfor; title: Regional Cooperation); title: 12.3 The Politics of Triangles; title: 12.4 Concluding Remarks; title: PART IV: CONCLUSIONS; title: 13 States and Region in South Asia; title: 13.1 Introduction: Nature Proposes; title: 13.2 Humankind Disposes; title: 13.3 States of Development; title: 13.4 Nature, Culture and Civilisation; title: 13.5 The Politics of Reaction; title: References and Bibliography; title: Appendix; title: Index.