A. S. Bhalla

A.S. Bhalla (M.A. Cant, Ph.D. Manchester) is a former fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge UK and former Special Adviser to the President of International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Ottawa. Dr Bhalla has held academic positions at Cambridge, Oxford, Yale and Manchester. His other historical books are Royal Tombs of India (Mapin, 2009); Buddhist Art in Asia (Austin Macauley, 2014); Glimpses of Medieval Switzerland (Austin Macauley, 2015) and Monuments, Power and Poverty in India: From Ashoka to the Raj (I.B. Tauris, 2015). He has written extensively on various other subjects. He is the (co) author of Poverty and Exclusion of Minorities in China and India (PalgraveMacmillan, 2017); Poverty among Immigrant Children in Europe (PalgraveMacmillan, 2009); Poverty and Exclusion in a Global World (PalgraveMacmillan, 2004) and Uneven Development in the Third World (Macmillan (1995) among other publications.