Anisur Rahman is currently Professor and Director, UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He holds master’s in two disciplines—economics (AMU) and sociology, M. Phil and Ph.D. (JNU). Before he joined Jamia Millia Islamia in 1999, he worked at the Institute of Applied Manpower Research, Planning Commission, Government of India. His area of interest includes South Asian Migration and Diaspora, Gulf Social Demography, and Issues of Higher Education and Minorities. He has published 5 books and over 50 research papers in journals in India and abroad including his contributions as chapters in edited books by well-known scholars. Niharika Tiwari, Ph.D.,  is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Govt. P.G. College Saidabad, Prayagraj, UP, India.

• Part I: Social and Economic Development.- Analysing the Status of Human Development in South Asia.- Repositioning South Asian States: Reinforcing Human Development.- Debt, Deficit and Economic Growth in South Asia: A Comparative Analysis.- Promoting South Asian Migration to the Gulf: Reducing Poverty and Inequality as the Strategy.- Skills for Employability and Development in South Asia: A Comparative Analysis.- Part-II: Governance and Human Rights.- Governance and Capability: Contemporary Issues for Citizens and governments.- Shrinking Space of Minorities in South Asia: A Comparative Study of India and Pakistan.- Corporate Governance in South Asian Countries: An Overview.- Good Governance and Human Rights: A South Asian Perspective.- Nuclear Weapons and Regional Cooperation in South Asia.- Part III: Media and Literature.- Role of Media in Conflict Management: A Case Study of 2016 Kashmir Unrest.- The Development Narratives in South Asia: A Case Study of Print Media.- Urdu Historiography, a Field of Urdu Literature in South Asia.- Contribution of Arabian Nepali Literature to ‘New Nepal’ Building.- Representation of Literature through Media: A Comparative Study of Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man and Mehta’s Earth.- Part IV: Gender and Development.- Gendered Demonology: Women as Witches.- Masculinizing’ the Women: Strategic De/Reconstruction of Gender in the Fiction of South Asian Women Writers.- The “Third space” of Feminist Sensibility in South Asia Diaspora Literature.- Sharing the Destiny: Women’ Political Representation in India in the South Asian Perspective.

Anisur Rahman is currently Professor and Director, UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He holds master’s in two disciplines—economics (AMU) and sociology, M. Phil and Ph.D. (JNU). Before he joined Jamia Millia Islamia in 1999, he worked at the Institute of Applied Manpower Research, Planning Commission, Government of India. His area of interest includes South Asian Migration and Diaspora, Gulf Social Demography, and Issues of Higher Education and Minorities. He has published 5 books and over 50 research papers in journals in India and abroad including his contributions as chapters in edited books by well-known scholars. Niharika Tiwari, Ph.D.,  is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Govt. P.G. College Saidabad, Prayagraj, UP, India.

• Part I: Social and Economic Development.- Analysing the Status of Human Development in South Asia.- Repositioning South Asian States: Reinforcing Human Development.- Debt, Deficit and Economic Growth in South Asia: A Comparative Analysis.- Promoting South Asian Migration to the Gulf: Reducing Poverty and Inequality as the Strategy.- Skills for Employability and Development in South Asia: A Comparative Analysis.- Part-II: Governance and Human Rights.- Governance and Capability: Contemporary Issues for Citizens and governments.- Shrinking Space of Minorities in South Asia: A Comparative Study of India and Pakistan.- Corporate Governance in South Asian Countries: An Overview.- Good Governance and Human Rights: A South Asian Perspective.- Nuclear Weapons and Regional Cooperation in South Asia.- Part III: Media and Literature.- Role of Media in Conflict Management: A Case Study of 2016 Kashmir Unrest.- The Development Narratives in South Asia: A Case Study of Print Media.- Urdu Historiography, a Field of Urdu Literature in South Asia.- Contribution of Arabian Nepali Literature to ‘New Nepal’ Building.- Representation of Literature through Media: A Comparative Study of Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man and Mehta’s Earth.- Part IV: Gender and Development.- Gendered Demonology: Women as Witches.- Masculinizing’ the Women: Strategic De/Reconstruction of Gender in the Fiction of South Asian Women Writers.- The “Third space” of Feminist Sensibility in South Asia Diaspora Literature.- Sharing the Destiny: Women’ Political Representation in India in the South Asian Perspective.