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"Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since 1757 and specifically on the impact of external influences on the local peoples and cultures. This text explores the region's colonial and postcolonial past, and the cultural and economic Indian reaction to the years of British authority, thus viewing the transformation of modern South Asia through the lens of a wider world."

"Walaupun sudah terbentuk kerjasama perdagangan bebas di Asia Selatan melalui mekanisme South Asian Preferential Trade (SAPTA) pada tahun 1995 dan South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) pada tahun 2006, tetapi nyatanya persentase nilai ekspor intra-kawasannya terhadap total nilai ekspornya ke dunia masih sangat rendah, hanya berkisar 4-6%, dibanding dengan Uni Eropa yaitu 57- 65%, ASEAN yaitu 22-25%, dan NAFTA 48-55% selama tahun 2000-2010. Berbagai hal menyebabkan hal ini terjadi, seperti tingkat komplementaritas (saling melengkapi) produk yang rendah di Asia Selatan. Artinya, kebanyakan barang yang diproduksi di kawasan itu sama, yaitu produk tekstil, sehingga mau tidak mau membuat mereka harus lebih berdagang dengan kawasan di luar Asia Selatan, terutama dengan AS dan Uni Eropa, belum lagi permasalahan politik dan keamanan domestik ataupun bilateral, seperti konflik India dan Pakistan. Melalui penelitian ini, penulis ingin menjelaskan penyebab rendahnya komplementaritas barang di Asia Selatan berdasarkan analisis daya saing industri domestik tujuh negara anggota SAARC melalui Lima Determinan menurut Teori Keuntungan Kompetitif Porter.

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In spite of South Asia free trade cooperation by South Asian Preferential Trade Agremeent (SAPTA) in 1995 and South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA) in 2006, there is still low percentage of intra-regional trade, especially export volume, compared with their total world export. However, its ratio percentage was 4-6% , whereas Eropa Union was 57-65%, ASEAN was 22-25%, and NAFTA was 48-55% within 2000-2010. The main cause is the incomplementary of their products export both in economy and political perspective. It means that they yield the similiar products, in particularly textile products, so that they have to relocate and sell their export products to outside regional countries, such as United States and Eropa Union, instead of making trade with SAARC members. Therefore this research attempts to explain the causes of low complementarity of South Asia products based on domestic industry and government polict analysis of seven SAARC member countries by using Porters? Competitive Advantage of Nations Theory."

"Drawing on the newest and most sophisticated historical research and scholarship in the field, this text provides a challenging insight for those with an intellectual curiosity about the region. After sketching the pre-modern history of the subcontinent, the text concentrates on the last three centuries."

"According to the author, the book addresses to all the scientists and not only to immunologists or biologists of European countries who are engaged in developing a vaccine, or a diagnostic kit or a new drug against the infection or on schistosome evolution. Even these scientists have to visit endemic countries for field trials or ask their counterparts to collect field data (which this book addresses ). Thus this book is not on molecular fundamentals but on the infection itself, how schistosome species are responding to the drug, sensitivity and specificity of immunodiagnostic kits, antigen molecules, snail compatibility, production losses, schistosome evolution, schistosome outbreaks, complexities where more than two schistosome species are existing, problem of human schistosomiasis in South Asia etc."

"Over recent decades a number of states in South and Southeast Asia have been troubled by armed separatist movements that have sought to create their own independent polity via physical separation from the parent state. Various forms of autonomy have been promoted by policy-makers and donors as the most democratic way of accommodating separatist insurgents in ethnically, religiously, politically and socially divided states. Despite this, remarkably few states in Asia have succeeded in winning over their aggrieved eparatist minorities to the dominant nationalist cause."

"This book explores the implications of urbanization and climate change for peri-urban water security in South Asia. Focusing on four locations in the region, namely Kathmandu (Nepal), Khulna (Bangladesh), and Hyderabad and Gurgaon (India), the book describes how climate change and urbanization shape peri-urban water security. The research documents the socio-technical mediation of water insecurity, describing both technological and institutional adaptive responses. In describing adaptation, the focus is both on planned and autonomous adaptation. The book further documents the differential vulnerabilities of peri-urban communities, describing the factors that disadvantage certain men, women, and groups of people as compared to others. With a focus on peri-urban contexts, the book bridges an important gap in current studies of adaptation and vulnerability to the impacts of climate change that tend to focus on purely agrarian or urban contexts. It thus contributes to the emerging body of work on peri-urban issues as well as to the literature on vulnerability and adaptation. The research presented is interdisciplinary in nature, employing a wide range of research tools and methods across the natural and social sciences."

"This paper investigates caste /ethnicity based inequity in women's health service utilization, particularly focusing on antenatal care (ANC) in the socioculturally complex patriarchal context of Nepal. Numerous studies worldwide have examined the effects of various factors contributing to antenatal care. However, much less is known about the influence of caste/ ethnicity on women's health-care utilization in Nepal. Using the nationally representative Nepal Demographic Health Survey (NDHS) Data 2011, a multilevel logistic regression was run with results suggesting that both non-economic (caste/ethnicity) and economic (household wealth) factors influence women's health-care utilization. First, women who belong to a disadvantaged caste/ethnicity such as the Hill Janajafi, Hill and Terai Dalit and Muslims are significantly less likely to make four plus antenatal care visits compared to the advantaged Bahun/Chhetri mothers. Second, mothers who belong to the wealthier category are significantly advantaged in terms of using antenatal care services compared to the poorest category of mothers. Third, contrary to the common assumption, mothers from the advantaged caste/ethnicity (Bahun/Chhetri and Newar) do not always fare better in all aspects of life; when from the poorest households, they are not significantly different in terms of antenatal care compared the poorest mothers who are from a disadvantaged caste/ethnicity. Tliese findings offer evidence against the misassumption that individuals of advantaged caste/ ethnicities are always privileged, suggesting that health policies should take into account the intertwining effects of both caste/ethnicity and economic status in order to improve women's health and well-being."