Political Geography: Politics of Place and Spatiality of Politics

Edition: 2020

Binding: paperback

Release Date: 01-12-2020

Details: This classic text presents a complete survey of the theory and practice of modern political Geography from ratzel to the present. Every perspective and every episode in the conceptual development of political Geography, including the current focus on political Geography as interaction between place, space and politics – which subsumes both the Study of politics of place as well as the study of spatiality of politics – is fully dealt with. This book is a complete text for Honours and postgraduate courses in Indian universities. The most distinguishing feature of the current edition is the addition of six full chapters covering every important aspect of political Geography of India beginning with reorganization of states, the potentially federal nature of Indian society representing a unique blend of unity in diversity, nature and working of Indian federalism, India’s foreign policy and security environment, geopolitics of the Indian Ocean and geopolitics of India’s neighbourhood which details India’s relationship with her neighbours – China, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The last br>Chapter addresses the politico-strategic implications of the removal of article 370. These chapters fill a major gap in the literature and fulfil the requirements of new courses on political Geography of India as also the political Geography sections of the Civil Services syllabus.

EAN: 9789389018042

Package Dimensions: 18.5 x 9.5 x 5.7 inches

Languages: English