Bhutan: Society and PolityContributed articles presented at an international seminar, April 1993; predominantly on social and economic conditions. |
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Contents
Introduction | 11 |
Geography as a Factor in Bhutans Development | 21 |
A Comparative Study | 34 |
Prospects | 44 |
Status of Women in Bhutan | 52 |
Language and Literature in Bhutan | 62 |
Growing Conflict | 78 |
Implications | 92 |
Recent Trends | 186 |
Economic Development and Modernization in Bhutan | 195 |
Emerging Trends | 207 |
Current Situation in Bhutan | 218 |
A Note | 262 |
Bhutans Foreign Policy in the New Context | 274 |
IndoBhutan Relations | 285 |
IndoBhutan Relations | 292 |
Causes Consequences | 100 |
Political Economy of Ethnic Conflict in Bhutan | 116 |
Bhutan Towards Modernization | 137 |
A Changing Development Paradigm | 157 |
Three Decades of Planned Development | 166 |
IndoBhutan Relations in the Changing South | 300 |
BhutanPakistan Relations | 309 |
Bhutan and SAARC | 321 |
Common terms and phrases
activities agriculture areas Asian Bangladesh Bhutanese Bhutanese Government Bhutanese society British Buddhism census China Chukkha cultural Delhi dissidents district Driglam Namza Drukpa DYTs dzongkhags eastern Bhutan economic development established ethnic conflicts ethnic groups ethnic Nepalese export Five Year Plan forest gewog Gorkha Government of Bhutan Government of India growth Himalayan human rights Ibid illegal immigrants important India and Bhutan Indo-Bhutan industries infrastructure institutions integration issues Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Jigme Singye Wangchuck King Jigme Singye kingdom Kuensel land language Lepcha Lhotshampas major modernization monks National Assembly national identity neighbours Nepalese Nepali immigrants Ngalops Pakistan percent Phuntsholing Politics of Bhutan population problem programmes projects refugees region relations religious roads role Royal Government ruling elite SAARC Samchi schools sector Sharchops Sikkim social socio-economic South Asia southern Bhutan southern dzongkhags Sri Lanka Thimphu Tibet Tibetan trade traditional Treaty Tshogdu village women
Bibliographic information
| Title | Bhutan: Society and Polity Volume 34 of South Asia studies series |
| Authors | Ramakant, Ramesh Chandra Misra |
| Editors | Ramakant, Ramesh Chandra Misra |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Indus Publishing, 1996 |
| ISBN | 8173870446, 9788173870446 |
| Length | 327 pages |
| Subjects | › Business & Economics / Economic Conditions |
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