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"This book describes the journey of Singapore's development and the fundamental role that water has had in shaping it. What makes this case so unique is that the quest for self-sufficiency in terms of water availability in a fast-changing urban context has been crucial to the way development policies and agendas have been planned throughout the years"--

Explores the history of jihadist violence in Kashmir, and argues that the violent conflict which exploded after 1990 was not a historical discontinuity, but, rather, an escalation of what was by then a five-decade old secret war. This work is of interest to students of the India-Pakistan conflict, South Asian politics and security studies.

Examines the social and social psychological processes that led up to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. This book works from a dual corpus: the historians' for medieval and modern India, the sociologists' for Indian society. It moves between evidence and general understanding, and focuses on social and psychological processes.

Combining theoretical analysis with insights derived from interactions with trade negotiators, this book analyzes the issues surrounding the creation of 'trade rules', addressing trade topics including the trade and development linkage. It questions the effectiveness of the global trade order in promoting development.

India started on a program of reforms, both in its external and internal aspects, sometime in the mid-eighties and going on into the nineties. This book examines the aspects of post-reform India and discerns the changes and trends which these developments have created.

Centring on the Indian subcontinent. these essays deal with the sexual subaltern subject - women. sexual minorities. Muslims and transnational migrants. Law is analysed as a site of discursive engagement by a host of actors. state and non-state. including feminists.

Muslims in India are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organizations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths and to the modern nation.

Written by experts from all over the world, the book comprises the latest applications of mathematical and models in food engineering and fermentation. It provides the fundamentals on statistical methods to solve standard problems associated with food engineering and fermentation technology.

In this first-ever comprehensive state-level analysis of the economic reforms in India, the authors show that, unlike China, the acceleration of growth in the 2000s has been broad-based with nearly every state growing faster than during any other decade. The authors outline state-level reforms in agriculture, land and labor markets, urban development, and infrastructure that are required for speedy economic transformation.

Crossover designs are useful in various areas of human investigation, including agriculture, animal nutrition, clinical trials, pharmaceutical studies, biological assays, weather modification experiments, and sensory evaluation of food products. This book presents an account of the developments in optimality aspects of crossover designs.