The objective is to chart Nepal's recent political history in order to explain how a seemingly anachronistic Maoist movement emerged to pose a threat—not just to Nepal but much of South Asia. The ineffectual political process that failed to resolve the country's most pressing...

Since the early 1980s non-governmental organisations have become a major phenomenon in development, and a focus of attention for academics and practitioners alike. The study of NGOs tends to emphasise their role in the delivery of welfare services and pays less at-tention to their political...

Women's history is not only an effort to restore women to history, but perhaps, more importantly, also to restore history to women. Writing women's history, therefore, calls for overcoming the isolationist celebration of individual women and to posit gender as an analytical category for studying...

This essay makes a comparative assessment of labour institutions of China and India. China's drastic labour reforms were to some extent necessary for the creation of a free labour market, which then allowed unfettered industrial growth and rapid employment, although they also led to some adverse...

The present study attempts to understand young Pakistani women's identities in relation to their aspirations for higher degrees in English literature. The research reported here is part of a larger ongoing study aimed at exploring linkages between young women's literacy practices in various...

This article analyses consumption patterns, socio-economic distribution and household choice of a variety of tobacco products across rural and urban India. Using a multinomial logit model, we examine the choice behaviour of a household in deciding whether and which tobacco products to consume....

This article examines Sri Lanka's industrialisation experience following the policy reforms initiated in 1977, with a view to informing the contemporary debate on the role of outward-oriented trade and investment policy in industrialisation in developing countries. There is strong evidence that...