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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, numbered RTT 95-10039 and dated October 1995, presents the proceedings of a conference held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored the conference. In it, academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials examined ethnic conflict by region, covering Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. The report also discusses what these conflicts mean for US policy. It does not deal with UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
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Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268 References Paul Brass. Ethnicity and Nationalism. Theory and Comparison. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1991. A penetrating analysis based primarily on the author’s abundant empirical research in India, with numerous comparisons to the Soviet Union and other areas. Breton, Roland J. L. Atlas geographique des langues et des ethnies de l’Inde et du subcontinent: Bang- ladesh, Pakistan. Sri Lanka. Nepal. Bhoutan. Sikkim. Quebec: Les Presses de l‘Universite Laval, 1976. Includes scores of ingenious maps and other graphics, treating census data on language diachronically and more completely than in any other work. Crane, Robert 1., ed., Regions and Regionalism in South Asian Studies: An Exploratory Study. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Program in Compar- ative Studies on Southern Asia, Monograph and Occa- sional Paper Series, Monograph Number Five, 1967. Studies from the disciplinary perspectives of geogra- phy, history, anthropology, sociology, and political science together with critical commentary. David, Kenneth, ed., The New Vlfind: Changing Identi- ties in South Asia. The Hague and Paris: Mouton Pub- lishers, 1977. The 17 papers in this anthology, all by anthropologists (including 10 from South Asia itself) are mainly theoretical and deal with identities in con- texts that, although generally not ethnic, nevertheless will provide numerous insights applicable to the study of ethnicity. Gleason, Henry Allan, Jr. Religious Communities in the Indias. -Fancy Gap, Virginia: 1946. An empirical study marked by historical depth and exceptionally detailed maps of individual religious groups in many regions of South and Southeast Asia. Grierson, Sir George Abraham. Linguistic Survey of India. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1967-68. ll vols. [lst ed. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendant of Gov- ernment Printing, I903-22]. Despite its early date and its largely technical nature, this pioneering and monu- mental study retains remarkable utility. Harrison, Selig S. India: The Most Dangerous Decades. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1960. A penetrating and prescient look at the political dynamics of the early period of Indian inde- pendence, focusing, inter alia on regional elites, caste lobbies, and various ethnically based stresses. Kothari, Rajni, -ed., Caste in Indian Politics. New Delhi: Orient Longman, Ltd., 1970. Includes nine case studies of caste movements and of'~the involvement of castes in specific political contexts from a wide vari- ety of regional contexts. Mahar, J. Michael, ed., The Untouchables in Contem- porary India. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, I972. An excellent anthology providing a diversity of views and empirical studies relating to the formerly untouchable castes of India. Maloney, Clarence. Peoples of South Asia. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1974. Written as a textbook, this work provides a very balanced, easy to comprehend overview of the many factors that con- tribute to South Asian identities. Mandelbaum, David G. Societv in India. vol. I, Conti- nuity and Change and vol. 2, Change and Continuity. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1970. This work covers much the same ground as that of Maloney but in greater depth and with more emphasis on changes over time. Raza, Moonis and Ahmad, Aijazudduin. An Atlas of Tribal India, Vlfith Computed Tables of District Level Data and Its Geographical Interpretation. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, 1990. Mapping of data on tribal population from the 1961 and 1971 censuses of India, throwing much light on the distribution and social and economic status of tribal populations. Risley, Sir Herbert Hope. The People of India. 2nd edition, ed. by W. Crooke. Delhi: Oriental Books 142 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268
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