About the Book :   Improvisation is the fundamental principle and primary tool for the elaboration of the raaga, the melodic concept peculiar only to Indian Classical music and this book endeavours to explore and explain, besides its technical formulations...

Moken Sea-Gypsies of the Andaman Sea, Post-war Chronicles By Jacques Ivanoff (Author) The book contains accounts of the nomads who live in the Mergui Archipelago of southern Burma and adjacent Thai territories. This minority of the northern branch of the...

Thailand's Rice Bowl (PB) | By Molle, Francois (Author) | White Lotus Perspectives on Agricultural and Social Change in the Chao Phraya Delta: Studies in Contemporary Thailand No. 12 This is a collection of papers by several researchers describing the...

Land Conflicts in Southeast Asia Indigenous People (PB) | By Magallanes, Catherine J. Iorns (Author) | White Lotus This book deals with the competing pressures being placed on land and resources worldwide as the world’s population grows. Within states, these...

Knowledge Management in Academic Libraries in India (HB) | By S. Sudarshan Rao (Author) | MLBD Publications The book is intended to create awareness and understanding of the importance and need for the implementation of Knowledge Management in academic institutions...

Environmental Identity Towards Sustainable Development with Indigenous Australians (PB) | By Nakanishi, Nao (Author) | White Lotus. The book examines the different concepts of a unified environment including living things as well as the natural surroundings like forests, rivers, rocks,...

Beyond the Beach: An Ethnography of Modern Travellers in Asia (PB) | By Westerhausen, Klaus (Author) | White Lotus. This work examines drifter-style tourism, a sanitized and institutionalized tourism alternative, in Asia. Over the last thirty years drifter tourism has...