Asian Studies

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Presents a case study of Europe's impact on an old and distinctive non-European civilisation, recounting first the history and then how some of the dynamics begun in the past are being played out in the contemporary world...

This is the story of the Yemeni Jewish remnants who displayed a strong hesitation to leave Yemen during Operation Magic Carpet (1949-51). It is based on a rich collection of unpublished documents which extend to the last stages of the saga...

This book brings together a series of original essays which explore the dynamics at work in two of the oldest, intact and starkly contrasting civilizations on earth. The book studies how they interact in modernity and how each civilization views the other, and analyses areas of cooperation between s..

This book presents a detailed analysis of state and society interpretations of jihad during the French conquest of Algeria...

Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, this work analyses colonial policies against the background of Anglo-American efforts to reconstruct the interwar international financial system and Britain's struggle to restore sterling and the City of London to their former pre-eminence...

This book looks at the role of colonialism in the development of Judaising movements throughout the world, including New Zealand, Japan, India, Burma and Africa...

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Karma, the law of cause and effect, of nature's retribution for lost harmony, and Rebirth, from which it is inseperable, have been described as the oldest doctrine in the world. In today's turmoil, an understanding of Karma is one of the foundations on which we can build a more reasonable world...

This book investigates the factors that led to the breakdown of democracy and the rise of violent separatism in Jammu and Kashmir in the 1980s, and how the risk of a large-scale war has grown in South Asia in the 1990s...

This work studies the Indian-Pakistani conflict over Kashmir as this confrontation between regional rivals became inflamed. It focuses on the period from the effective nuclearization of the dispute in 1998 to the introduction of US troops into the region in connection with the war in Afghanistan...

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...