Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bangladesh -- 3. Sri Lanka -- 4. Pakistan -- 5. India -- Index -- Box -- Figures -- Tables.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- 1. Researching the Obvious: Tourism and the Eastern Cherokee -- 2. The Trail of Tourism -- 3. Academic Perspectives on Tourism and the Case of Cherokee, North Carolina -- 4. Eastern Cherokee Ingenuity -- 5. Disneyfication on the Boundary -- 6. Mass...

Celebratory news features about India's thriving middle class tell only part of the story of the country's recent economic rise, frequently glossing over the 300 million Indians who live on the margins and struggle to survive under economic liberalization. How do those cast out of their...

A strong investment climate is a platform for economic success. By creating opportunities and setting incentives for firms to invest and productively employ inputs, the investment climate is critical to economic growth and prosperity. Analyzing and comparing the investment climate of Brazil,...

Local organizations have become key mechanisms in effective, fair, and sustainable resource management and development in India. This book adds empirical evidence to the debate on whether or not these functions are performed as expected. Based on research in three sectors in three states in...

By expanding the existing set of indicators to include gender-related stress, anxiety, and violence, this book introduces a new framework for gender research. The viability of this new approach is demonstrated through a coordinated set of household surveys, carried out in Export Processing Zones...

This text is concerned with the concept of time in the Bible and in later literature, primarily that of the Judaean Desert sect. The work discusses issues of terminology, substance and ideology that arise from the totality of texts dealing with the subject of time.

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Indian words and place names -- Note on money -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Weavers and merchants 1720-1760 -- The Weavers -- The weaver household -- The rhythms of...

We see famine and look for the likely causes: poor food distribution, unstable regimes, caprices of weather. A technical problem, we tell ourselves, one that modern social and natural science will someday resolve. Jenny Edkins responds to the contrary: famine in the contemporary world is not the...

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Introduction -- 1 South Asian merchant networks -- South Asian merchants in the world economy -- Trade diasporas and middleman minorities: a critique of two...