...Xuefei Ren Comparing China, India, and Brazil reveals that current housing policies in all three countries have produced new forms of exclusion for inhabitants of informal settlements. © 2020 by the Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for...

... Anirudh Krishna India social mobility inequality education employment jobs caste system health care women's rights Narendra Modi 123 How to extend equality of opportunity across a vast and growing population is one of the most important problems facing India to- day. The ideal of...

... Lanka China India civil war reconciliation transitional justice Tamils Buddhists Muslims Mahinda Rajapaksa democracy constitution debt trap 137 Sri Lanka s ethnoreligious divisions are bound to continue as long as the likes of Rajapaksa dominate the island s political scene. Sri...

... of California Frank-Borge Wietzke social mobility middle class poverty inequality economic policy politics identity developing countries China India Brazil 16 Political conflicts can flare up when new, increasingly vocal lower-middle- income groups enter the political arena...

...Raffaello Pantucci Beijing's miscalculations regarding India have created conflict with a regional power that has the capability and desire to disrupt China's outward push. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Raffaello Pantucci...

...Sumit Ganguly India has emerged onto the global stage after decades of adherence to strategic nonalignment and protectionist trade rules limited its influence. But triumphalism is premature. Our Time Has Come: How India Is Making Its Place in the World , by Alyssa Ayres Oxford University...

...Neeti Nair Whether in India, Pakistan, or Myanmar, governments have failed to protect minorities, and too often politicians have pandered to agitators stirring up sectarian hatred. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California Neeti Nair...

... University of California Rosamond Naylor food security famine hunger agriculture Green Revolution foreign aid population China India climate change malnutrition obesity Ending world hunger is a universal goal, yet progress and social awareness of the issue waxes and wanes in the...

.... Emmanuel Teitelbaum India labor unions organized labor employment Narendra Modi Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Trade Unions Act Contract Labor Act Industrial Disputes Act strikes informal economy manufacturing © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved...

... History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Chitralekha Zutshi Kashmir India Pakistan Srinagar Jammu Partition British Empire Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah Islamist militancy Lashkar-i-Taiba Jaish-e-Muhammad Burhan Wani Hizbul Mujahidden...

... India Pakistan Bangladesh Nepal Ganges River Indus River Brahmaputra River Indus Water Treaty Ganges Waters Treaty climate change environment rivers South Asia 148 [D]isputes have deepened to the extent that water is seen as inherently a source of conflict rather than...

...Sumit Ganguly A new book on Britain's reign in the subcontinent, departing from earlier generations of scholarship, does not sanitize the brutality and racism that undergirded the colonial enterprise. The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India , by Jon Wilson . Public...

... California Anirudh Krishna India demonetization Narendra Modi corruption tax evasion banking informal economy currency PERSPECTIVE Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took to the airwaves on November 8, 2016, to an-nounce a plan that would destroy black money, a bane of the Indian...

... University of California Fiona Adamson globalization diasporas diaspora politics Eritrea Iraq Kurds India Sri Lanka Tigers Tamil Eeelam Irish-Americans American Israel Public Affairs Committee AIPAC Mexico Mexican-Americans A few decades ago, there was little interest in...

...Sheila Jasanoff India's long-held penchant for big development projects has worsened its severe ecological problems. A new book draws attention to the promise of smaller-scale solutions. A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of...

...Arvind Rajagopal The public sphere of debate and discussion predicated on transparency has given way to a public sphere of image and spectacle. © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Arvind Rajagopal India public sphere...

...Kanchan Chandra Although the majority of elected members of Parliament in India now come from subaltern categories, they belong to parties that are dominated by the Hindu upper castes. © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Kanchan...

... University of California Amanda Snellinger Nepal constitution separatism ethnic politics youth Madhesi movements Maoists Tarai Birganj Kathmandu earthquake India Constituent Assembly PERSPECTIVE In May 2013 I arrived in Birganj, a border town in southern Nepal s Parsa district, to do...

... China India United States United Nations Framework Convention Climate Change Kyoto Protocol carbon emissions greenhouse gas Barack Obama Clean Power Plan Climate change has finally come of age politically. Before the recently concluded Paris negotiations, the issue was not ripe for...

... Anirudh Krishna developing countries inequality rural urban disparities globalization wealth distribution poverty democracy India A dilemma of governance is rearing its head in developing countries with large rural populations. More than half the world s population lives in such countries...