SOCIAL SCIENTIST Kumar, Satpal Sangwan and others. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader (London, 1995), p. 2. Anger and anguish are the dominant moods of post-Colonial writings, Frantz Fanon or Aime Casaire has expressed the mood in theorising it too. Bipan Chandra, Rise and Growth of Economic Nationalism in India (New Delhi, 1966). R. Palme Dutt was somewhat uncharitable to the middle-class leadership, The Subaltern Studies has been even more. Bipan Chandra, Freedom Movement's Vision of Independent India (New Delhi, 1998), pp. 8-12. Ibid., pp. 14-15. Dipesh Chakrabarty, "Invitation to a Dialogue", Subaltern Studies, Vol. IV (New Delhi, 1990), p. 373. The statement attributed to Count Cavour, "We have made Italy; now we have to make the Italians", was suggestive of nationalism as an on-going project. Renan's idea of a nation as "a daily plebiscite" is significant. E.J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780 (Cambridge, 1992), p. 7. The Unfinished Agenda Edited by Mushirul Hasan & Nariaki Nakazato This volume provides multidisciplinary perspectives on nation building in South Asia. It results from an interchange of views and perspectives between Indian and Japanese scholars who participated in a conference held at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo. The essays are closely interlinked thematicaliy and yet each is self-contained. The contributors, a judicious blend of academics and social activists'; discuss wide-ranging themes and their ramifications within the framework of colonial society and the post-Independence Indian State. They also attempt to historicise the nature, scale and depth of the changes ushered in by the transfer of power. Mushirul Hasan (born in 1949) teaches Modern Indian History at the Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. His most recent publication is John Company to the Republic: The Story of Modem India. Nariaki Nakazato (born in 1946) belongs to the Department of South Asian Studies, Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo. He has an English book on economic history: Agrarian System in Eastern Bengal c. 1870-1910. ISBN 81-7304-379-5 2001 DemySvo 536p. Rs. 800 India and Asean Edited by Frederic Grare & Amitabh Mattoo Can international relations be explained by geopolitics alone? More precisely, does geographical proximity necessarily lead to intense interconnections? The principal concerns of the present volume on the India-ASEAN security relationships are rooted in these questions. India's association with South-East Asia goes back in history, and it has had great influence on the region, both linguistic and cultural. As is well known, economic and cultural relations flourished in the pre-colonial era, only to decline over time. At the beginning of the 1990s, economic and political relations between South and South-East Asia were minimal and often antagonistic. The situation changed considerably with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent reduction of the American forces in the region. There were fears in most ASEAN states of.a power vacuum that a politically and economically dynamic China could easily fill. India too faced growing concerns at the possibility of a potentially hegemonic China wanting to dominate the region. This shdfed perception, together with India's own liberalized economic policies compelled New Delhi to look East Frederic Grare is Director of the Centre de Sciences Humanies, New Delhi. Amitabh Mattoo is Director, Core Group for the Study of National Security and Associate Professor of International Relations at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. ISBN 81-7304-330-2 2001 DemySvo 248p. Rs. 500 MANOHAR PUBLISHERS & DISTRIBUTORS 2/6 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 110002 Phones: 3275162, 3284848 • Fax: 3265162 e-mail: MANBOOKS@GIASDL01.VSNLNET.IN