India’s Foreign Policy: Retrospect and Prospect
Edited by Sumit Ganguly Rs 1200
This title provides a comprehensive assessment of a number of different facets of the on-going dispute over Kashmir between India and Pakistan.
Among other matters, it examines the respective endgames of both states, the evolution of American policy toward the dispute, the dangers of nuclear escalation in the region and the state of the insurgency in the Indian-controlled portion of the disputed state.
The Spirit of Democracy:
The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World
By Larry Diamond Rs 632
Political scientist Diamond (Squandered Victory), a leader in the field of democracy studies, provides a broad, authoritative survey of international trends and evolving academic thinking concerning the development and maintenance of democracies worldwide.
Looking broadly at internal and external factors driving democratic movements, as well as the forces that sustain them once in place, Diamond argues democracy is not a Western anomaly, but a universal value. The promotion of democracy in authoritarian regimes through either peaceful pressure or international interventions, Diamond believes, is rarely effective unless supported by outside assistance designed to strengthen internal civil societies.
Masks of the Himalayas
Edited by Francois Pannier Rs. 3900
The classical art of the Himalayas, especially bronze sculpture of a Buddhist or Hindu persuasion, has long been recognized and appreciated by the western world. Meanwhile, the tribal masks of that same region, which relate to ancient animistic traditions specific to ethnic groups living in isolation among the huge mountains, have been ignored by museums and ethnologists until very recently.
Literature on the subject is almost non-existent. This book seeks to fill this bibliographical gap by reproducing a private collection consisting of sixty masks, most of them Nepalis, which due to their fantasy and richness of patina display an extraordinary formal variety.
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