"The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) comprising Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka is a dynamic institutionalised regional cooperation in South Asia, perceived as an economic grouping to work together for accelerating the pace of socio-economic and cultural development.

"Being published for the first time, this pioneering work in seven volumes gives the constitution, government and political system of the seven SAARC countries. Also included is information about territory and population, religion, system of government, personnel of government, political parties, newspapers, banks, currency, education, tourism public holidays, etc." (jacket)

Contents: Vol. 1. India: Preface. India: an introduction. I. The Constitution of India: 1. The draft constitution of India: as an idealist sees it/Pratapgiri Ramamurti. 2. A fresh look at the constitution/B.K. Nehru. 3. Constitutional amendments in India/Ranjana Arora. 4. The constitution and the public services/M.L. Shahare. 5. Working and prospects of Parliamentary Democracy in India/Ramesh Narain Mathur. 6. Fundamental rights in relation to the Indian constitution/K. Janakikutty Amma. 7. Right to property/A.M. Siddiqi. 8. Fundamental rights in relation to the Indian constitution/T.K. Shahani. 9. Right to property--is it fundamental?/R.C.S. Sarkar. II. Federation of India: 10. Is India a federation?/P. Kodanda Rao. 11. India--a union of states under the draft constitution/V.N. Srivastava. 12. A more federal India/Nirmal Mukarji. 13. Whether India should have a unitary or federal form of government?/Mehar Chand Mahajan. 14. Emergency provisions and union-state relations in India/S.C. Dash. 15. Princely states and their merger with the Indian Union/Ashok Grover. 16. The Government of Union Territories/Akhileshwar Sharma. 17. Position of the states under the Indian constitution/S.A.H. Haqqi. III. Parliament and Parliamentarians: 18. Role and responsibilities of legislators/K.V. Krishna Rao. 19. The Indian legislatures and the delegation of legislative power/D.N. Banerjee. 20. Parliamentary procedure in India/Ramesh Narain Mathur. 21. Availability of privileges of the British House of Commons to Legislatures in India/Phul Chand. 22. Parliamentary privileges/Ranjana Arora. 23. The role of the speaker/Ram Niwas Mirdha.

IV. The Executive: 24. Presidency in India/Harmandar Singh. 25. A study of the principle of 'Aid and advice' in Indian constitutional perspective/Anirudh Prasad. 26. Constitutional provisions for impeachment of the President of India/J.N. Lal and O.P. Singh. 27. The Vice-President of India/J.N. Lal. 28. The Indian Prime Minister: a plea for institutionalization of powers/Harish Khare. 29. Role of state Governors in India/Gurmukh Nihal Singh. 30. Indian police: a historical survey/Rajinder Prashar. 31. Mandal and bureaucracy/Raju Ramachandran. V. The Judiciary: 32. Place of judiciary in the Indian constitution/M. Saleem Kidwai. 33. The Supreme Court and federation in India/R.S. Morkhandikar. 34. The Supreme Court and advisory jurisdiction: a study of its implications/Sarala Devi. VI. Federalism and Indian Political Parties: 35. Political broadcasting in India/R.B. Jain. 36. Federalism and the Indian political parties/Phul Chand. VII. SAARC and India: 37. South Asian Regional Cooperation/Indira Gandhi. 38. Regional cooperation in South Asia: imperatives and obstacles/Surjit Mansingh. 39. SAARC: origin and development/Davinder Kumar Madaan. 40. India and SAARC: economic and trade development/Davinder Kumar Madaan. 41. SAARC--constraints and potentials/Vandana Mohla. 42. The Republic of India/Verinder Grover. Appendices: 1. Linguistic Provinces Commission, 1948--report. 2. Electoral reforms suggested in the First Election Commission report, 1951. 3. States Reorganization Commission, 1953--report: a summary. 4. Official Language Commission, 1955, report: a summary. 5. Report of the Backward Classes Commission (Kalelkar), 1955. 6. Major recommendations to improve electoral system. 7. The Constitution (Amendment) Acts. 8. Declaration on South Asian Regional Cooperation. 9. Major economic indicators: SAARC countries. Bibliography. Index.

Vol. 2. Pakistan: Preface. Pakistan: an introduction. I. Constitution Making: 1. Genesis and growth of Pakistan: weak ideological foundation/N.N. Gidwani. 2. Constitution-making in Pakistan, 1947-56/B.P. Barua. 3. Some thoughts on Pakistan's new constitution/J.S. Bains. 4. The system of federation in Pakistan: constitutional provisions for decentralisation/Syed Farooq Hasnat. 5. Federalism and regionalism in Pakistan/Mehrunnisa Ali. 6. Language and regionalism in Pakistan/M.V. Lakhi. II. Military Intervention: 7. Military intervention in Pakistan/Nihal H. Rizvi. 8. Army in Sindh: an overview/A.R. Siddiqi. 9. The non-military activities of the Pakistan military/K.L. Kamal. 10. Pakistan's search for democracy: problems and prospects/P.L. Bhola. III. Political Trends in Pakistan: 11. The political crisis in Pakistan/Sisir Gupta. 12. Political development in Pakistan/Z.A. Bhutto. 13. Political trends in Pakistan/Sisir Gupta. 14. The elite groups and aspects of confrontation within Pakistan/Nazir A. Mughal. IV. Political Parties: 15. Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan/Ali Ahmad Khan. 16. Foundation and policy: Pakistan People's Party. 17. Benazir Bhutto: failure of leadership/Mahesh Bhardwaj. 18. The party continues: the PPP/M.B. Naqvi. 19. The National Awami Party of Pakistan: leftist politics in crisis/M. Rashiduzzaman.

V. The Islamic State of Pakistan: 20. The Islamic concept of state in Pakistan/G.W. Chaudhry. 21. Islamic state controversy in Pakistan/M.V. Lakhi. 22. The Zia Regime: legitimisation through Islamisation/Veena Kukreja. 23. Pakistan: Islam in politics/Sheila McDonough. 24. Interaction of ideology and strategy in Pakistan's domestic politics: the fulcrum of policy-making/Khalid Javed Makhdoom. VI. Religious Minorities and Separate Electorate: 25. Religious minorities in Pakistan/G.W. Choudhury. 26. Ahmadis of Pakistan/Preeti Paliwal. 27. Psychological basis of separate electorates/Syed Abul A'la Maudoodi. 28. Separate electorates: the life-blood of Pakistan/Joshua Fazl-Ud-Din. 29. Joint electorates will prove the basis of Pakistan wrong and immoral/Begum Tahira Agha. VII. SAARC and Pakistan: 30. Pakistan and SAARC: economic and trade development/Davinder Kumar Madaan. 31. The Republic of Pakistan/Verinder Grover. Appendices: 1. Jinnah's inaugural address to the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan in 11th August, 1947. 2. The constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (1956). 3. Text of the President's proclamation of October 7, 1958. 4. The constitution of the Republic of Pakistan (1962). 5. Legal framework order 1970 (extracts). 6. Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (1973). 7. Text of Shariat Bill, 1991. 8. Dawn of a new era, basic democracies in Pakistan. 9. Major economic indicators: SAARC countries. Bibliography. Index.

Vol. 3: Sri Lanka: Preface. Sri Lanka: an introduction. I. Politics, Elections and Political Parties: 1. Sri Lanka: a survey of events 1970-72/Swaroop Rani Dubey. 2. Authoritarianism in Sri Lanka/W.A. Wiswa Warnapala. 3. Sri Lanka today: governmentality in crisis/Imtiaz Ahmed. 4. Sri Lanka in 1989: maintaining the state/Nilan Fernando. 5. Sri Lanka in 1990/Khalid Malik. 6. The Kalawana Fiasco: a major constitutional crisis averted in Sri Lanka/W.A. Wiswa Warnapala. 7. Politics and compulsions of referendum in Sri Lanka/Swaroop Rani Dubey. 8. Politics of assassination plagues Sri Lanka/Bansidhar Pradhan. 9. Sri Lanka's slippery snap poll/Bansidhar Pradhan. 10. The first presidential election in Sri Lanka: a review/L.M. Jacob and V. Mohan. 11. Sri Lanka's presidential election 1982: a note on five categories of issues/Victor Gunewardena. 12. The all party conference in Sri Lanka/W.A. Wiswa Warnapala. 13. Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna/Shakuntala Jean Jeyasingham. 14. Leftist parties in Sri Lanka: The Lanka Sama Samaja Party/Shakuntala Jean Jeyasingham. 15. Social democracy and national economic policy: viewpoint on the Sri Lankan experience/W.A. Wiswa Warnapala. 16. Post-colonial agricultural land reforms in Philippines and Sri Lanka: a comparative assessment/Karori Singh. II. Regionalism, Language Problem and the Sanga: 17. Regionalism in Sri Lanka/Lucy M. Jacob. 18. The language pragmatism of Sri Lanka Muslims/Vasundhara Mohan. 19. Role of the state in promoting women participation in Sri Lankan politics/L.M. Jacob. 20. Emerging issues in feminism in Sri Lanka and Pakistan/Deepa Mathur. 21. Sangha and politics in Sri Lanka: nature of the continuing controversy/W.A. Wiswa Warnapala. 22. The dilemma of a minority in a multi-racial society: the Muslims of Sri Lanka/Vasundhara Mohan. III. Ethnic conflict: 23. The separatist Eelam movement in Sri Lanka: an overview/S.V. Kodikara. 24. Structural matrix of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka/Pradeep Bhargava and Ambalavanar Sivarajah. 25. Tamil factor: how to handle LTTE?/Gurbachan Singh. 26. Internal politics: muddled situation/Nancy Jaitley. 27. Sinhala nationalism in independent Sri Lanka: aspects of a religio--nationalist movement/W.A. Wiswa Warnapala. 28. Continuing tragedy/Umashankar Phadnis. 29. Ethnic violence in Sri Lanka: causes and consequences/C.A. Perumal and R. Thandavan. 30. Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka: future dimensions/Mahibubur Rahman.

IV. Foreign Policy: 31. Foreign policy: Hawkish advisers gone/P. Tharyan. 32. The 1964 Indo-Ceylonese pact and the "Stateless persons" in Ceylon/Urmila Phadnis. 33. Mediation to intervention: India's role in the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict/Ajay Darshan Behera. 34. Indo-Sri Lankan relations: towards confidence building/V.N. Viswanathan. 35. India-Sri Lanka accord: one year after/Abha Dixit. 36. India: friendly, sensible role/R. Chakrabarti. 37. Sino-Ceylonese relations (1950-1967)/Naranarayan Das. 38. Sri Lanka's China policy: major trends/Anuradha Muni. 39. Sri Lanka and the South Asian sub-system: a study of sub-macro international politics/Sivananda Patnaik. V. Sri Lanka and SAARC: 40. SAARC and Sri Lanka: economic and trade development/Davinder Kumar Madaan. 41. The Republic of Sri Lanka/Verinder Grover. Appendices: 1. Ceylon (Constitution) order in council, 1946. 2. The Ceylon independence (Commencement) order in council, 1947. 3. The Ceylon (Office of Governor-General) letters patent, 1947. 4. Royal instructions, 19 December, 1947. 5. Official language issue: its history. 6. The British form of Government. 7. Indo-Ceylon agreement (Implementation) act no. 14 of 1967. 8. Indo-Sri Lanka agreement to establish peace and normalcy in Sri Lanka. 9. The constitution of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). 10. Major economic indicators: SAARC countries. Bibliography. Index.

Vol. 4: Bangladesh: Preface. Bangladesh: an introduction. I. Emergence of Bangladesh: 1. Bangladesh: factors contributing to its emergence/Bipattaran Ghosh. 2. The rise and installation of an "Intermediate regime" in Bangladesh/Syed Serajul Islam. 3. Cardinal elements of nationalism in Bangladesh/S.H. Osmany. 4. Recognition of Bangladesh: an appraisal of India's policy/B.N. Mehrish. II. Armed Forces and Politics: 5. Bangladesh armed forces: organisation, social background and its political role/Golam Hossain. 6. Politics in Bangladesh: the paradox of military intervention/Samina Ahmed. 7. From military to military: BNP's persistent factionalism and failure of a civilian succession in Bangladesh/Golam Hossain. III. Elections, Politics and Political Parties: 8. Parliamentary elections in Bangladesh: a comparative analysis/Muhammad A. Hakim. 9. Election politics in a Bangladesh village: community issues and national politics/M.Q. Zaman. 10. Regionalism in Bangladesh: the study of Chittagong hill tracts/D.C. Burman. 11. Interest group politics in Bangladesh: role of Sramik Karmchari Oikka Parishad (SKOP)/Al Masud Hasanuzzaman. 12. Left political parties and movements in Bangladesh (1947-1975)/Hayat Hussain and Abul Hossain A. Bhuiyan. 13. Resurgence of religio-political forces in Bangladesh: polity: a study of the Jamaat-i-Islami/B.M. Monoar Kabir. 14. Transitional politics in Bangladesh: a study of Sattar's interim presidency/Shaukat Hassan. 15. Factionalism in Bangladesh politics: a trend analysis/Mahbubur Rahman. 16. Transition to democracy in Bangladesh: issues and outlook/Iftekharuzzaman and Mahbubur Rahman. 17. Democracy under Seige/Zaglul A. Chowdhury.

IV. Islam and Ethnicity: 18. Islamic fundamentalism in Bangladesh/Muntasir Mamoon and Jayant Kumar Ray. 19. Social stratification, interaction and integration among the Muslims and the Hindus in a Bangladesh village/A.F. Imam Ali. 20. Religion and ethnicity in Bangladesh politics/Syed Anwar Husain. V. Bureaucracy and Development Administration: 21. Bureaucracy in Bangladesh: the political involvement and influence/Farah Kabir. 22. The administrative elite in Bangladesh: a study of their attitudes towards development/M. Shamsur Rahman. 23. Development administration and civil service in Bangladesh/Geeta Chaturvedi. 24. Challenges of governance in Bangladesh/Ataur Rahman. 25. Rural community development in Bangladesh: a historical review/M. Mahbubur Rahman. 26. Upazila approach to development administration in Bangladesh: an examination its efficacy/Nural Islam Nazem and Nazrul Islam. 27. Development challenges in the nineties: poverty alleviation in Bangladesh/Selim Jahan. 28. Technology and problems of self-reliance in Bangladesh/Iqbal Mahmud. VI. Indo-Bangladesh Relations: 29. The territorial sovereignty of India and Bangladesh over the Ganges/M. Rafiqul Islam. 30. Border disputes between India and Bangladesh/Kuldeep Singh. 31. Farakka Barrage agreement: a review/S.S. Bindra. 32. Indo-Bangladesh land boundary agreement: a positive development/Kamal Kinger. 33. River water dispute in Delhi: Dhaka ties/Vandana Asthana. VII. Foreign Policy: 34. Foreign policy of Bangladesh: challenges in the 1990s/A.K.M. Abdus Sabur. 35. Bangladesh foreign policy: the middle east factor/Md. Golam Mostafa. 36. International migration, remittances and development: untapped potentials for Bangladesh/Raisul Awal Mahmood. 37. Emerging pattern of Bangladesh's economic relations with Japan/Raisul Awal Mahmood and Anup Chowdhury. 38. U.S. economic assistance to Bangladesh, 1971-82 and growth of private enterprise/Kamal Uddin Ahmed. 39. Bangladesh-China relations: a review/Md. Zaglul Haider. VIII. SAARC and Bangladesh: 40. Bangladesh and SAARC: economic and trade development/Davinder Kumar Madaan. 41. People's Republic of Bangladesh/Verinder Grover. Appendices: 1. The proclamation of independence, 10th April, 1971. 2. White paper on the South Talpatty Island, 26 May, 1981. 3. Farakka agreement, 5th November, 1977. 4. List of countries/governments which have recognized Bangladesh. 5. SAARC documents. 6. Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (1972). 7. Major economic indicators: SAARC countries. Bibliography. Index.

Vol. 5: Nepal: Preface. Nepal: an Introduction. I. Historical Perspective: 1. Pages of Nepali history: birth pangs of a new state in the Himalayas/Rishikesh Shaha. 2. The growth of nationalism in pre-revolution Nepal/Shashi Prabha Misra. 3. Nepal and Indian revolt of 1857/Rama Kant. 4. Tilaurakot: ancient Kapilavastu/T.R. Vaidya. 5. An alternative perspective/A.R. Deo. II. Constitution and Political Institutions: 6. Role of political institutions in the modernization of Nepal/R.S. Chauhan. 7. Third amendment of Nepalese constitution: its implications/R.S. Chauhan. 8. Democratic experiment in Nepal: India's role and attitude/M.D. Dharamdasani. 9. The first panchayat general election in Nepal/Lok Raj Baral. 10. Democracy in Nepal: problems and prospects/K. Mojumdar. 11. Transition to democracy in Nepal: the process and prospects/Farzana Hussein. 12. Nepal Sans B.P.: an analysis of the impendent politics of the kingdom/Shree Krishna Jha. 13. Nepali Congress' struggle for democracy/Khalid Mahmood Malik. 14. Party politics in Nepal/Hasan Askari Rizvi. 15. A new era in Nepali politics/Parmanand. 16. Puzzling politics in Nepal/Parmanand. III. Regionalism and District Administration: 17. Regionalism in Nepal: a study of the Tarai region/Ramakant and B.C. Upreti. 18. Some reflections on the district administration in Nepal/Rajani Ranjan Jha. 19. Indians and Madheshias/Parmanand. 20. Education and economic participation among Nepalese women: some changing dimensions/Jyotsna Rajvanshi. IV. Indo-Nepal Relations: 21. Nepal's India policy: quest for independence/Shree Krishna Jha. 22. India and Nepal's zone of peace proposal/Kapileshwar Labh. 23. Indo-Nepal relations: tension areas/S.K. Chaturvedi. 24. India's security stakes in the Himalayas and Indo-Nepal relations/B.C. Upreti. 25. Indian aid to Nepal/B.C. Upreti. 26. India's role in Nepal's development/S.K. Chaturvedi. 27. Search for security/S.D. Muni. 28. Ties with India/Shri Krishna Jha.

V. Nepal's Foreign Relations and SAARC: 29. Three decades of American assistance to Nepal/Bhuchandra P.R. Baidya. 30. China's economic aid to Nepal: nature, motives and dimensions/M.D. Dharamdasani. 31. Nepal-China road/Rama Kant. 32. Changing global scenerio: role of China as an intrusive power in Indo-Nepal relations/S.K. Chaturvedi. 33. Nepal, Tibet, China and India, 1923-33: tangled web of Himalayan politics/K. Majumdar. 34. Transit problems of land-locked states and the special case of Nepal/Martin Ira Glassner. 35. Nepal-Egypt relations/T.N. Jaiswal. 36. Nepal's reaction to the Soviet military presence in Afghanistan/Shree Krishna Jha. 37. Nepal and the regional cooperation in South Asia/B.C. Upreti. VI. SAARC and Nepal: 38. Nepal and SAARC: economic and trade development/Davinder Kumar Madaan. 39. New winds in Nepal/Verinder Grover. Appendices: 1. Constitution of Nepal, 1948. 2. Treaty of "Peace and friendship" between the Government of India and the Government of Nepal (July 31, 1950). 3. The interim Government of Nepal Act, 1951. 4. Text of the address delivered by the Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa on 35th anniversary of the Nepal Council of World Affairs. 5. Treaty of peace and friendship between the People's Republic of China and the Kingdom of Nepal. 6. The constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, 1959. 7. Royal proclamation of December 15, 1960. 8. The text of the constitution of Nepal, 1962. 9. King Mahendra's letter to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. 10. The constitution of Nepal (as amended till 1967). 11. Treaty on trade and transit of August 1971 between Nepal and India. 12. King Birendra's speech at the Nepal Council of World Affairs (July 1973). 13. King Birendra's address to the Fourth Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries held in Algiers (September 8, 1973). 14. King Birendra's speech on his coronation (25 February, 1975). 15. King Birendra's speech at a banquet in honour of Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia. 16. King Birendra's speech at the banquet hosted by Premier Mua Huo-feng of China. 17. King Birendra's speech at the banquet in honour of the Emperor of Japan (May 18, 1978). 18. King Birendra's speech at a banquet in honour of the President of Sri Lanka (November 4, 1978). 19. King Birendra's address to the Sixth Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Countries held in Havana, Cuba (September 1979). 20. Address by Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Nepal Council of World Affairs (Feb. 21, 1982). 21. Declaration and South Asian Regional Cooperation. 22. The text of the constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal, 2047 (1990), November 9, 1990. 23. Text of Kathmandu declaration. 24. Major economic indicators: SAARC countries. Bibliography. Index.

Vol. 6: Bhutan: Preface. Bhutan: an introduction. I. Early History of Bhutan: 1. Early history of Bhutan/David Field Rennie. 2. History of the founding of Bhutan/J. Claude White. 3. Report from Bhutan/E. Burke Inlow. 4. Report on Bhutan/R. Boileau Pemberton. II. The Modern Bhutan: 5. Geopolitical structure of Bhutan/Pradyumna P. Karan. 6. Role of geography in the evolution and shaping of Bhutan's socio-cultural life/R. Sahu. 7. Bhutan--the Himalayan state/S.C. Bajpai. 8. Bhutan/Nirmala Das. 9. Bhutan: the dragon kingdom/Zulfikar A. Khalid. 10. The international status of Bhutan before 1947/Kapileshwar Labh. 11. Scholarship on Bhutan/Srikant Dutt. 12. Making of modern Bhutan/Ram Rahul. 13. Bhutan's evolution and politics of unequal treaties/Rahimullah Yusufzai. III. Bhutan's Politics: 14. Tsongdu: The National Assembly of Bhutan. 15. Recent trends in Bhutanese politics/R.C. Mishra. 16. The transition to capitalism in Bhutan: notes on British connection/Gautam Kumar Basu. 17. Political problems of Bhutan/D.B. Gurung. 18. Bhutan's dilemma/R.N. Anil. 19. Democratization of an autocratic system: the evolution of representative institutions in Bhutan/Shree Krishna Jha. IV. The Ethnic Problem: 20. Ethnicity in Bhutan: causes and effects/Parmanand and Saroj B. Khanna. 21. The southern Bhutan problem: an overview/Debasish Biswas. 22. Tibetans in Bhutan: problem of repatriation/R.C. Misra. 23. Bhutan: the issue of ethnic divide/Farzana Shakoor. 24. Bhutan's ethnic problem: a case of a fragile ethnic mosaic in South Asia/Farzana Hossein.

V. Indo-Bhutan Relations: 25. Indian immigration in Bhutan/Tapas K. Roy Choudhury. 26. India and Bhutan, 1947-64/S.C. Bajpai. 27. Indian economic aid to Bhutan and Sikkim/Valentine J. Belfiglio. 28. Indo-Bhutan friendship/R.N. Anil. 29. India's closest friend: ancient oath on ties with Bhutan/Sunanda K. Datta-Ray. 30. Bhutan's move to preserve culture, tradition: 'nothing anti-Indian about it'/Purabi Thapa. 31. India and Bhutan: partners in progress/R.N. Anil. 32. The Bhutanese connection/K.P. Bhanumathy. 33. A review of Indo-Bhutan relations. 34. A significant upswing/Samir Pal. 35. India and Bhutan : security and strategic dimensions/B.M. Jain. 36. Indo-Bhutan relations/R.C. Misra. 37. Friendly relations with Bhutan/K.P. Bhanumathy. 38. Indo-Bhutanese relations: Bhutan's quest for an international role/Rahimullah Yusufzai. 39. Tranquility in Shangri-la/Bhabani Sen Gupta. VI. Bhutan's Foreign Relations: 40. Dragon kingdom's urge for an international role/Manorama Kohli. 41. Foreign policy of small states: a comparative study of Bhutan and Maldives/Shaheen Afroze. 42. Bhutan and its strategic environment/Syed Sikander Mehdi. 43. Bhutan looks outwards: its search for identity/A.G. Naidu. 44. Bhutan-China relations/R.C. Misra. 45. Bhutan-China border talks/Manorama Kohli. 46. Chinese interest in Bhutan: evolution of the British Indian perspective/Manorama Kohli. 47. China factor in Indo-Bhutanese relations/Manorama Kohli. 48. Bhutan and its uncertain neighbour China/P.S. Bhati. 49. Bilateralism under the shadow: the problems of refugees in Nepal-Bhutan relations/Lok Raj Baral. 50. Thinking through Nepal's Bhutan problem/Dhruba Kumar. VII. SAARC and Bhutan: 51. Bhutan and SAARC: economic and trade development/Davinder Kumar Madaan. 52. The land of thunder dragon/Verinder Grover. Appendices: 1. Articles of the treaty of peace between the Honourable East India Company and the Deb Raja of Bhutan, 1774. 2. Articles of trade drawn up by Bogle in 1774 with the Deb Raja of Bhutan. 3. Translation of Ikrarnamah agreed to by the Booteah Zinkaffs on the 2nd June, 1836. 4. Treaty submitted on the 25th of April 1838 to the Deb Raja of Bootan by Captain R. Boileau Pemberton, Envoy on the part of the British Indian Government to the court of the Deb and Dharma Rajas. 5. Translation of the document which Mr. Eden signed under compulsion in 1864. 6. Khureeta to his highness the Deb Rajah intimating the annexation of Ambaree Fallacottah (dated Simla, 9th June, 1864). 7. Proclamation regarding the annexation of Bengal Doars (12th November, 1864). 8. Agreement entered into by high officers of the Bhootan Government for the surrender of the two guns, 1865. 9. The treaty of Sinchula, 1865. 10. Proclamation of annexation of the Doars and other territory of Bhutan (4th July, 1866). 11. The treaty of Punakha, 1910. 12. The treaty of November 1910 between India and Bhutan concerning extradition and other related matters. 13. The constitution of the National Assembly. 14. Treaty between India and Bhutan, 1949. 15. Major economic indicators: SAARC countries. Bibliography. Index.

Vol. 7. Maldives: Preface. Maldives: an introduction. I. Introducing Maldives: 1. The Maldive Islands/C.H.B. Reynolds. 2. Maldives--the land of wonders and woes/Umashankar Phadnis. II. Constitution, Government and Politics: 3. The Maldives: a profile/J.P. Anand. 4. Constitutional and political development in the Maldives/V.H. Coelho. 5. Maldives in the 1990's/Maqsud Ul Hasan Nuri. 6. Maldives/Urmila Phadnis. 7. Strains and stresses of democracy in Maldives/S.S. Misra. 8. Wind of change: fresh stirrings in the Maldives/Parmanand. 9. Understanding Maldives/Umashanker Phadnis. 10. The modernisation of Maldives/Nidhi Sharma. III. Foreign Relations: 11. Foreign policy of small states: a comparative study of Bhutan and Maldives/Shaheen Afroze. 12. Maldive Islands. 13. Maldives: U.K.'s bullying tactics/Pertinax. 14. Big power rivalry in Maldives/B.C. Nag. 15. Maldives: small is important/John Dayal. 16. Island out of its shell/V. Jayanth. 17. India and Maldives: a new and closer relationship/Dilip Mukerjee. 18. Maldives: anatomy of 'operation Cactus'/Alok Mukherjee. 19. Assault on Maldives: the inside story/M.R. Narayan Swamy. IV. Economy of Maldives: 20. An overview of the economy of Maldives and her trade with India/Prakash Chandra Adhikary. 21. Maldives: adjustment measures enhance medium-term growth prospects/Sukhdev Shah. V. SAARC and Maldives: 22. Maldives and SAARC: economic and trade development/Davinder Kumar Madaan. 23. Beautiful coral atolls/Verinder Grover. Appendices: 1. Correspondence regarding the agreement of 1887. 2. Maldives-UK agreement, 24 April, 1948. 3. U.K.-Maldives agreement, 26 July, 1965. 4. President Maumoon's address to the nation on 26 July, 1980 (Summary). 5. Speech of the foreign secretary of the Republic of Maldives at the Foreign Secretaries' Meeting, Colombo, April 1981. 6. Speech of President Gayoom at the Non-Aligned Summit, Havana, September 1979. 7. Speech of Maldives permanent representative at the UN, Ahmed Zaki, 13 October, 1983 (extracts). 8. Speech of President Gayoom at the Seventh Non-Aligned Summit, New Delhi, March 1983. 9. Text of the speech by Atal Bihari Vajpayee on December 28, 1978. 10. Rulers of Maldives to the year 1996. 11. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's banquet speech at Male on January 12, 1975. 12. The text of the joint communique issued on January 14, 1975 at the end of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's visit to Maldives. 13. Major economic indicators: SAARC countries. Bibliography. Index. 

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