Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of South Asia.
Ritual and Recovery in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka
1st Edition
By Jane Derges
June 16, 2017
Following over twenty years of war, Sri Lanka’s longest cease-fire (2002-2006) provided a final opportunity for an inclusive peace settlement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). However, hostilities resumed with ever increasing desperation and ferocity...
Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The Trouser Under the Cloth
1st Edition
By Anoma Pieris
May 31, 2017
The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the ...
Religious Freedom in India: Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion
1st Edition
By Goldie Osuri
May 31, 2017
Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India’s religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious ...
Development–induced Displacement, Rehabilitation and Resettlement in India: Current Issues and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Sakarama Somayaji, Smrithi Talwar
May 18, 2017
Compulsory land acquisition and involuntary displacement of communities for a larger public purpose captures the tension of development in the modern state, with the need to balance the interests of the majority while protecting the rights of the minority. In India, informal estimates of ...
Displacement and Resettlement in India: The Human Cost of Development
1st Edition
By Hari Mathur
May 18, 2017
In the past ten years or so, displacement by development projects has gone on almost untamed under the globalization pressures to meet the demand for land from local and increasingly foreign investors. Focusing on India, this book looks at the complex issue of resettling people who are displaced ...
Enterprise Culture in Neoliberal India: Studies in Youth, Class, Work and Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Nandini Gooptu
May 18, 2017
The promotion of an enterprise culture and entrepreneurship in India in recent decades has had far-reaching implications beyond the economy, and transformed social and cultural attitudes and conduct. This book brings together pioneering research on the nature of India’s enterprise culture, covering...
Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka: Up-country Tamil Identity Politics
1st Edition
By Daniel Bass
May 18, 2017
Focusing on notions of diaspora, identity and agency, this book examines ethnicity in war-torn Sri Lanka. It highlights the historical development and negotiation of a new identification of Up-country Tamil amidst Sri Lanka’s violent ethnic politics. Over the past thirty years, Up-country (Indian...
Islam and Higher Education: Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
By Marodsilton Muborakshoeva
May 18, 2017
This book is the first study to qualitatively explore the concepts of higher education in Muslim contexts. It examines the different concepts of ‘a university’ and the way they shape practice in Muslim contexts, with a particular focus on the Islamic republic of Pakistan. Contributing to ...
Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan: Traversing the Margins
1st Edition
By Chad Haines
May 18, 2017
The Karakoram Highway was constructed by the Pakistani state in the 1970s as a major development project that furthered the national interest and solidified state control over the disputed region of northern Pakistan. Focusing on this highway, this book provides a unique analysis of the ...
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal: Identities and Mobilization after 1990
1st Edition
Edited
By Mahendra Lawoti, Susan Hangen
May 18, 2017
Identity movements, based on ethnicity, caste, language, religion and regional identity, have become increasingly significant in Nepal, reshaping debates on the definition of the nation, nationalism and the structure of the state. This book analyzes the rapid rise in ethnic and nationalist ...
Non-discrimination and Equality in India: Contesting Boundaries of Social Justice
1st Edition
By Vidhu Verma
May 18, 2017
Social Justice is a concept familiar to most Indians but one whose meaning is not always understood as it signifies a variety of government strategies designed to enhance opportunities for underprivileged groups. By tracing the trajectory of social justice from the colonial period to the present, ...
Being Bengali: At Home and in the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Mridula Nath Chakraborty
December 08, 2016
Bengal has long been one of the key centres of civilisation and culture in the Indian subcontinent. However, Bengali identity – "Bengaliness" – is complicated by its long history of evolution, the fact that Bengal is now divided between India and Bangladesh, and by virtue of a very large ...