Central Asian region, Afganistan, Iran, Pakistan, Srilanka, Mangolia and India and a wide range of issues pertaining to geo-politics of the region, socio-cultural contacts to globalisation are covered in this second issue of Asia Annual.
Besides fifteen well researched articles by specialists of the respective areas, a summary of events for the year 2000 and the text of three important declarations of the year are added for the ready reference of the readers.
Mahavir Singh is presently Director of MAKAIAS. He obtained his M.Phil and Ph.D degrees from the School of International Studies, JNU, New Delhi. He was Professor of History, at the Pondicherry University, Pondicherry where he was responsible for the Centre for Archival Studies and was also Coordinator for the UGC Centre for Nehruvian Studies. He is member of a number of professional bodies like International Records Management Trust, London, Indian History Congress and Indian Association for Canadian Studies. A recipient of the Commonwealth Sr. Academic Staff Fellowship of the Commonwealth Commission in the UK, he was visiting fellow at the University College, London for academic year 1995-96. He had travelled extensively in the UK and had attended conferences and visited archival organisations in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Canada and Nepal. He has two books and a number of research papers published in national and international journals to his credit.
Introduction; The Islamic, The Pre- Islamic and the Modernist in Central Asian Religion; On India's Problems of Rule and Realities of Globalisation; Mongolia and the Soviet Union: A study of Political Relations(1921-1990); Fundamentalism in Bangladesh (1975-1990); 'Mahalgaloi' and Fragmentation of Tajik Society during the Tajik Civil War (1990-92); Governance in Bangladesh: Institutions and Processes; A Search for Identity: Crises of 'Nationalism' in the north-east India; Modernisation in Afganistan (1880-1901): Futile Experiments?; Pakistan's Involvement with Taliban; Pakistan's Fourth Military Regime; Long, Long War in Srilanka; Towards a Civil Society Resilence, Good Governance and Peace in South Asia: The Case of Bangladesh; Nuclear Factor in Sino-Indian Relations; The Question of Indonesian Unity; Russia and the Tajik Civil War; Asian Events 2000;
Documents: US-India Relations - A Vision for 21st Century, Valadamir Putin's Visit to India (October,2000), The Shanghai Five Declaration (July,2000)