Pakistan -- Social and cultural transformations in a Muslim nation / Mohammad A. Qadeer -- Labor, democratization and development in India and Pakistan / Christopher Candland -- China-India relations -- Contemporary dynamics / Amardeep Athwal -- Madrasas in South Asia -- Teaching terror? / Jamal...

1. Distinguishing four phases -- 2. Phase I (1951-65) : takeoff under a liberal regime -- 3. Phase II (1965-81) : socialism strikes with a vengeance -- 4. Phase III (1981-88) : liberalization by stealth -- 5. Phase IV (1988-2006) : triumph of liberalization -- 6. A tale of two countries : India...