Strategic Dynamics and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation in South Asia: A Historical Analysis

Author: Bhumitra Chakma
ISBN: 9783039103829
Binding: Paperback
Year: 2004
Pages: 322
Size: 15 x 21 cm Weight: 445 grams Price: INR 2760.00



Strategic Dynamics and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation in South Asia: A Historical Analysis

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Strategic Dynamics and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation in South Asia: A Historical Analysis
About the Book
This book analyses India and Pakistan’s decision to ‘go nuclear’ against the odds of Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty-based nuclear order. It reflects upon the key factors that contributed to, and the process that prompted India and Pakistan’s nuclear programmes to take a military orientation, which eventually culminated in the May 1998 nuclear tests. It also explains the motivation which underscored both India and Pakistan’s determination to advance nuclear postures in 1998 that appeared to be inconsistent with the post-Cold War global strategic environment. Further, this book explains why international and regional nuclear non-proliferation regimes were ineffective in preventing India and Pakistan from going nuclear.
About the Author
Bhumitra Chakma

Bhumitra Chakma lectures in international politics in the School of History and Politics at Adelaide University, Australia. He previously taught in International Relations Department at Dhaka University, Bangladesh.
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“This is a riveting account of the early history of yoga and yogis in India that weighs the perspectives of both the yogis and the public culture of yoga. The history of yoga practice, and of yogis, is finally receiving the critical attention from scholars that will alter the views made popular by modern yoga teachers who believe their doctrines of mental and physical culture constitutes ‘classical yoga’. David White’s entertaining and intelligent account of yogis drawn largely from Hindi and Sanskrit sources will contribute enormously to this corrective project. White has a real gift for making difficult, opaque material comprehensible, and he does so in writing that is bright and lucid.”
—Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa
“White swept us up with The Alchemical Body and blew us away with Kiss of the Yogini. Now along comes Sinister Yogis. Prepare to be taken over completely by this final installment of White’s ‘siddha’ trilogy. These are no ordinary yogis, at least not in the way yogis have been conceived for many a generation, and not simply by Western scholars and spiritual entrepreneurs. And they are not figures of a literary imagination. They are flesh and bone—when they want to be—and they have walked among us, making and remaking the world. White unravels a vast and interlacing literature on the theory and practice— and especially practitioners—of yoga, ranging from Harappa to the British Raj, and all points in between, and he demonstrates time and again that self projection and body possession, what he calls ‘omni-presencing’, are the keys to South Asian religion.”
—William R. Pinch, Wesleyan University
“David Gordon White’s Sinister Yogis is brilliant, digressive, non-linear, and likely to be criticized by readers who find fault with specific interpretive and translational choices that he makes. Writing a book such as this one takes courage. It is safest in the modern academy to burrow into the minutiae of a single era or philosophical school and to write only for a small group of initiates. Sinister Yogis is the most comprehensive work to date in a movement that is fundamentally re-shaping our understanding of what yoga is.”
—Andrew J. Nicholson, Journal of the American Oriental Society
Sinister Yogis...successfully provides a fuller, more contextualized history of yoga, opening up some of the elisions that come when a tradition goes cross-cultural.”
Times Literary Supplement
“Huge fun, fascinating and beautifully written.”
Fortean Times
“This wondrously captivating, richly detailed book is a must for anyone interested in conceptions of the Indian yogi and of yogic practice.”
Choice
“White offers a surprising, counterintuitive take on the roots of an extraordinary, sometimes mystical discipline.”
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