Roger Ballard
A collection of accounts of everyday life within a range of communities, such as Punjabi, Gujarati, Bangladeshi, Hindu, Muslim and Sikh. Taken together, they highlight common features and diversities in a variety of spheres, such as discrimination, religion and integration.
Md. Mahbubar Rahman, Willem van Schendel
In the wake of Partition—the break-up of British India in 1947—millions of people moved across the new borders between Pakistan and India. Although much has been written about these ‘Partition refugees,’ a comprehensive picture remains elusive. This paper advocates a rethinking of the study of cross...
Rajeev Bhargava
INTRODUCTION 1. Democratic Vision of a New Republic: India, 1950 2. The Evolution and Distinctiveness of India's Linguistic Federalism 3. Indian Secularism: An Alternative, Trans-cultural Ideal 4. History, Nation and Community 5. Between Revenge and Reconciliation: Gandhi and Truth Commissions 6. Mu...
Manan Ahmed Asif
A field-changing history explains how the subcontinent lost its political identity as the home of all religions and emerged as India, the land of the Hindus.Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late fifteenth century? This is a subject of heated deb...
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman
Due to various social advancements, Bangladesh has become more welcoming to digital technologies. Thus, a significant online community is flourishing here. Almost half of the country’s entire population uses the internet. The digital neighborhood is becoming larger the mediated interaction. What w...
Nahid Afrose Kabir
In Britain's highly politicised social climate in the aftermath of the 7/7 London bombings, this book provides an in-depth understanding of British Muslim identity through social constructs — migration history, family settlement, socio-economic status, religion and culture, and the wider societal en...
Gulshan Sachdeva
This article has captured evolving Indian narratives concerning One Belt One Road (OBOR) or the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). In the context of changing scope of the BRI, perceptions are also evolving. The article has covered wider perceptions, which go much beyond limited official narrative. Broa...
Elleke Boehmer, Anshuman A. Mondal
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antiq...
Milinda Banerjee
""Examines the construction of new concepts of sovereignty in late nineteenth and early-mid twentieth century India through the production of divergent visions of human, divine, and messianic rulership"...Provided by publisher"...
Wahidul K. Biswas, Mark Diesendorf, Paul Bryce
Terence Ranger, Yunas Samad, Ossie Stuart
Racism and identity - issues for the Irish in Britain anti-racist strategies - national identity and French anti-racist discourses and movements Asians have culture, West Indians have problems - discourses of race and ethnicity in and out of anthropology ethnicity and the politics of cultural differ...
Zhang, Yudong, Li Wu
In this study, we introduced the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm for the sake of improving two dimensional protein folding simulations. ABC is a novel intelligent problem solving technique under the inspiration of collective behavior on honey bees. It has better performance in function optimiz...
Burnett
In the introduction to her edited anthology So Long Been Dreaming (2004), Nalo Hopkinson argues that postcolonial voices must engage with speculative fiction. While the genre has a long and deeply problematic history of depicting conquest and colonialism as glorious enterprises, Hopkinson rather sug...
Safiqul Islam, Syed Ashiqurrahman
Intrusion detection system in wireless sensor network is one of the growing research areas in recent years. Wireless sensor networks (WSN) consist of tiny devices. These tiny devices have limited energy, computational power, transmission range and memory. However, wireless sensor networks are deploy...
Roberto Ferrari, Oliver Kwan
There are many controversial disability syndromes, representing medicolegal and social dilemmas for a variety of medical disciplines. Health care professionals are at a loss to cure these patients, and judges and disability review boards struggle to be fair while at the same time trying to understan...