An edition of The geopolitics of South Asia
(2000)
The geopolitics of South Asia
from early empires to India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
by Graham P. Chapman
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1 Brahma and Manu: Of Mountains and Rivers, Gods and Men
1.1 The Land
1.2 The People
1.3 Society Crystallises
1.4 The Epic Ages
1.5 The New Religions
1.6 The First Empire
1.7 The Hindu Empires
1.8 Concluding Remarks
2 Hinduism: The Manifold of Man and God
2.1 An Unrevealed Truth
2.2 Cosmologies East and West
2.3 The Three Paths to God
2.4 Lineage and Caste
2.5 The Thousands of Separate Castes in India
2.6 Pollution and the Hierarchy of Caste
2.7 Maya
2.8 Caste and Hinduism in the Contemporary Era
2.9 Concluding Remarks
3 Islam: Submission to the One True God
3.1 The Prophet
3.2 The Word of Allah
3.3 Muslim Law: The Sharia
3.4 The Spreading Fire
3.5 The Submission of India
3.6 Persecution and Resistance
3.7 Vijayanagar
3.8 Second Foundation: The Mogul Empire
3.9 Imperial Government under Akbar
3.10 The Empire in Extremis and Decline
3.11 The Legacy of Islam
3.12 Hindu-Muslim Relations
PART II: THE BRITISH RAJ
4 The Usurpers: The Life and Death of John Company
4.1 Preface: Changing Britain
4.2 European Expansion
4.3 The East India Company
4.4 The Pattern of Trade and its Growth
4.5 Rivalry with the French
4.6 The Acquisition of Bengal
4.7 The Struggle to Assert Control
4.8 Trusteeship and Reform
4.9 The Mutiny and Divorce
5 A New Geography: A New Economy
5.1 The Railroading of Empire
5.2 Irrigation
5.3 The Land of the Five Rivers
5.4 International Trade in the 19" Century and the Balance
of Payments
5.5 The New Geography
5.6 The Language of Empire
5.7 A Necessary Understatement
5.8 Concluding Remarks
6 The New Nationalisms and the Politics of Reaction
6.1 Contesting Dynamics
6.2 The Structure of Government in British India and the
Problem of an Evolutionary Transfer of Power
6.3 The Process of Constitutional Concession
6.4 Gandhi and the Nationalist Response
6.5 The Two Nations
PART HI: THE SUCCESSOR STATES
7 Divide and Quit
7.1 Pride and Prejudice: The Search for Unity in Western
Europe
7.2 Pride and Prejudice: Recrimination and Divorce in
South Asia
7.3 Territorial Options
7.4 The Decree Nisi
7.5 Concluding Remarks
8 New Lines on the Map
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Radcliffe's New Map
8.3 The Second Partition of Bengal
8.4 The Princely States
8.4.1 Junagadh
8.4.2 Hyderabad
8.4.3 Jamnu and Kashmir
8.5 The Human Flotsam
8.6 The Divided Inheritance
8.7 Concluding Remarks
9 From Two to Three: The Birth of Bangladesh
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Unequal Development in Pakistan
9.3 Language and Representation
9.4 The Military Cost of Pakistan
9.5 The South Asian Roots of Bangladesh
9.6 Concluding Remarks
10 Raj and Swaraj: Regionalism and Integration in the
Successor States
.10.1 Introduction
10.2 The Integration of the Princely States
10.2.1 India
10.2.2 Pakistan
10.3 Territorial Redefinition in India and the Emergence of
Linguistic States
10.4 The Centre-Province Balance and Pakistan's Search for
a Constitution
10.5 Regionalism post 1972 in the Residual Pakistan
10.6 Concluding Remarks
11 The Power Upstream
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Hydro-politics in the Indus Basin
11.3 Sharing the Ganges-Brahmaputra Basin
11.3.1 Farakka Barrage
11.3.2 Floods in Bangladesh
11.4 Concluding Remarks
12 The Greater Game
12.1 Geopolitics
12.2 Antagonists and Protagonists since 1947: The Actors
12.2.1 The Soviet Union/Russia
12.2.2 The USA
12.2.3 China, Tibet and the Himalayan War
12.2.4 Pakistan and the Afghan War
12.2.5 Kashmir
12.2.6 Bangladesh
12.2.7 India
12.2.8 SAARC (The South Asian Associationfor
Regional Cooperation)
12.3 The Politics of Triangles
12.4 Concluding Remarks
PART IV: CONCLUSIONS
13 States and Region in South Asia
13.1 Introduction: Nature Proposes
13.2 Humankind Disposes
13.3 States of Development
13.4 Nature, Culture and Civilisation
13.5 The Politics of Reaction
References and Bibliography
Appendix
Index.
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