India

Political Activism, Legal Discourses and Sexual Violence in India

Geetanjali Gangoli and Martin Rew • Feb 6 2013 • Articles

Demands for legal changes are often an immediate response to issues such as the Delhi rape case. Yet, moderate successes are often useless if attitudes regarding women’s sexuality remain unchanged.

Review – Across the Line of Control

Daanish Mustafa • Jan 20 2013 • Features

Across the Line of Control provides an analysis of the recent history, politics, demographics and key events in the history of all of Kashmir, with a special focus on the PAK.

‘Tryst with Destiny’: Remapping the Promised Land(s)

Dilpreet Bhullar • Jan 14 2013 • Articles

The deep scars left by the partition of India and Pakistan are often overlooked by high politics but an analysis of photographs from the time uncovers the reality of the impact of partition on the population(s).

The Indian Woman’s Reality

Kirthi Jayakumar • Jan 9 2013 • Articles

India thronged to the streets recently in protest, after a young woman was brutally gang raped and subsequently died. But what the masses and policy-makers have failed to understand are the deeper cultural problems, allowing such crimes to happen.

Nuclear Energy and Resolving Environmental Problems: Examining the Case of India

Manpreet Sethi • Jan 7 2013 • Articles

Enhancing energy production and sustaining the environment are not an either/or choice. India must be greedy enough to want both. Nuclear power does provide a solution worthy of consideration.

The Continuing Salience of Tibet for Sino-Indian Relations

Manjeet Singh Pardesi • Sep 24 2012 • Articles

Unrest in Tibet carries huge implications for Sino-Indian relations and Indian foreign policy, which is important in part because next month marks the 50th anniversary of the 1962 Sino-Indian War.

Prestige and Naval Power: A Look at India and China

Robert Potter • Aug 21 2012 • Articles

In modern times the transforming of a country into a great power has traditionally coincided with the development of a powerful navy. Both India and China are progressing towards this end.

Review – Border Walls

Karthika Sasikumar • Aug 1 2012 • Features

With imagination and erudition, Jones investigates the fundamental tensions between democratic ideals and the brute realities of the enforcement of state power on the ground.

Review – Muslims in Indian Cities

Reece Jones • Jul 12 2012 • Features

As the authors of this volume demonstrate, India’s 170 million Muslim population have been the losers in a legacy of establishing separate territories for non-territorial religious categories.

US-Indian Relations: Permanent Interests Not Permanent Friends

Lawrence Korb and Alex Rothman • Jun 14 2012 • Articles

It is important that the United States do a better job of defending its own interests in its negotiations with India. Nevertheless, there are areas of common strategic concern where we can work with the Indian government to the benefit of both nations.

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