The sense of belonging to a particular nation and being proud of its cultural heritage makes one nationalist. Those nations and societies, which strove hard to preserve the nationalistic spirits, emerged as strong and greatnations, which were riddled with differences on regional, religious, and ethnic lines could not emerge strong and great. Here in this book attempts are made to incorporate in detail, all the components of the Indian Nationalism. The philosophies of Manu, Kautilya, Gandhi and views of Ambedkar on nationalism are elaborately and comprehensively dealt with, in order to present to the readers, all the developments and movements related to nationalism and its current relevance in an inimitable style. The present social scenario in India warrants such a work on a subject of great interest. Hence, this endeavour is expected to be accepted widely.

Afghanistan emerged as separate Kingdom in Mid-18th Century under Ahmed Shah Abdali (Durrani), one of the mighty commanders of Nadir Shah of Persia. Despite foreign interventions, various ups and downs, feudal and tribal conflicts as well as frequent violence between the numerous segments of power structure Afghanistan has continued as a geo-political entity till to date. In demographic sense Afghanistan is a plural, multi-ethnic and multi-lingual country. Pashtuns or pathans constitute the majority of the people of Afghanistan other major ethnic groups being Hazaras, Tadjiks, Uzbeks, Uigurs and Nuristanis. Islam, Sunni of the Hanafi sect is the state religion to which more than 90% of the people adhere, the remaining being Shias. The main language spoken is Pushtu, and second important language is Dari, a derivative of Persian. Afghanistan has been an area of imperial ambitions and competition throughout medieval and modern history. Great game of competition is being played between western democracies led by the US on the one hand and other fundamentalist groups on the other. After USSR's withdrawal from Afghanistan, Taliban captured the power. This fundamentalist group Taliban patronized by Osama-bin Laden in connivance with Pakistan later became the arch enemy of America. On the Sept. 11,2001 Laden master-minded an attack on America's WTC and Pentagon-collapsing the monumental twin towers of WTC and partially damaging the Pentagon. This all was beyond everybody's imagination. In the process of continued civil war the already poor economy of Afghanistan was devastated. The people were left poverty-stricken and pampered. Now in the name of suppressing and eliminating terrorism America is in fierce was in Afghanistan. Till date Taliban is vanished. A new Interim government under Hamid Karzai has already sworn in. Now the process of recreation of a New Afghanistan is on. This work is designed to bring together entire authentic information on Afghanistan. Volume wise organization of the work is : Afghanistan: the Land and People Afghanistan: Customs and Traditions Kingship in Afghanistan Communist Rule in Afghanistan Taliban and Muslim Fundamentalism US Was on Terrorism in Afghanistan & Aftermath.

An essential feature of a contemporary political life in the growing contribution of all states to the settlement of problems which are now of concern to mankind; one can say that now a days every state, every nation-big or small-bears the responsibility for the fate of peace and human utilisation and are in duty bound to make an active contribution in preventing a new war, in strengething the ties of friendship and cooperation among peoples. It is worth stressing that the small and medium-sized countries assert themselves ever more firmly in the world arena, making an increased contribution towards the settlement of international issues, towards the establishment of relations of full equality between nations, of respect for the will and aspirations of every people. The objective of the compilation is to provide readers especially students and scholars, researchers and teachers, some clear insight into the dynamic of government and politics in even World order.

The Asian state system encompasses more than three fourth of mankind in states with widely differing capabilities, sizes, types of regimes and sources of influence. It finds its main armature in the relationship between two mainland giants-the Soviet Union, a world power, and China an Asian regional power. It is sufficiently affected by actions of the United States as a number of the Asian State system, although geographically it lies across the Atlantic and Pacific. The Inland state of Japan has a rapidly growing economy and is likely to pay a more important role in the future by virtue of its dramatic economic grown and expectations about its future military capability. A number of smaller sub-systems lie within the larger Asian state system. This book deals with The National Question in China, Political and Constitution Aspects of Sri Lanka, Ecology of Federalism in Malaysia, Evolution of National Ideology in Indonesia, New Regime in Afghanistan, The Asian State System in Retrospect, Japanese Nationalism: Ideological and Philosophical Content and Political Trend, Policy and Perspectives in Sri Lanka, Policy Analysis and Development in Nepal, The Sixth SAARC Summit, Policy Planning in Pakistan, and Constitution of China.