A Political and Economic Dictionary of South Asia

This is the latest volume in the Europa Political and Economic Dictionaries series which began five years ago with A Political and Economic Dictionary of Eastern Europe (Thomas et al., 2002) (RR 2003/14). A number of other volumes have since appeared, two more of which, covering Latin America (Calvert, 2004) and Western Europe (Annesley, 2005), have also been reviewed in these columns (RR 2005/120) (RR 2006/57). Like its predecessors, South Asia is intended (I quote the publicity blurb on the back cover) to provide “clear definitions detailing terms, concepts, names and organizations used...