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.
Microcredit and Women's Empowerment: A Case Study of Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Aminul Faraizi, Taskinur Rahman, Jim McAllister
September 11, 2014
Using a case study of Bangladesh, and based on a long term participatory observation method, this book investigates claims of the success of microcredit, as well as the critiques of it, in the context of women’s empowerment. It confronts the distinction between women’s increasing wealth as a ...
Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Lau, Ana Cristina Mendes
September 11, 2014
Orientalism refers to the imitation of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West, and was devised in order to have authority over the Orient. The concept of Re-Orientalism maintains the divide between the Orient and the West. However, where Orientalism is based on how the West constructs the East, ...
The Multiplex in India: A Cultural Economy of Urban Leisure
1st Edition
By Adrian Athique, Douglas Hill
August 12, 2014
During the decade of its existence in India, the multiplex cinema has been very much a sign of the times – both a symptom and a symbol of new social values. Indicative of a consistent push to create a ‘globalised’ consuming middle class and a new urban environment, multiplex theatres have thus ...
Explaining Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: Escaping India
1st Edition
By Aparna Pande
March 27, 2014
Pakistan has over the decades become a hotbed for the terrorist ideology often referred to as Jihadism. This book investigates the underlying principles of Pakistan’s foreign policy from 1947 until the present day, and explains the rise of Jihadism as an offshoot of Pakistan’s security concerns. ...
South Asia in the New World Order: The Role of Regional Cooperation
1st Edition
By Shahid Javed Burki
March 19, 2014
Rapid changes have taken place in the structure of the global economy, and this book looks at how South Asia can take advantage of these changes. The author argues that the developing global economy will be more complex than originally thought, that instead of a bipolar model with two countries, ...
Being Middle-class in India: A Way of Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Henrike Donner
November 08, 2013
Hailed as the beneficiary, driving force and result of globalisation, India’s middle-class is puzzling in its diversity, as a multitude of traditions, social formations and political constellations manifest contribute to this project. This book looks at Indian middle-class lifestyles through a ...
Building Bangalore: Architecture and urban transformation in India’s Silicon Valley
1st Edition
By John Stallmeyer
November 08, 2013
Examining spatial transformations in Bangalore, one of India's fastest growing cities, this book highlights the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) development on the city. Focusing on the production of urban space and the processes that inform such production, the author ...
Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka: Caught in the Peace Trap?
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Goodhand, Benedikt Korf, Jonathan Spencer
November 08, 2013
The period between 2001 and 2006 saw the rise and fall of an internationally supported effort to bring a protracted violent conflict in Sri Lanka to a peaceful resolution. A ceasefire agreement, signed in February 2002, was followed by six rounds of peace talks, but growing political violence, ...
The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel J. Rycroft, Sangeeta Dasgupta
November 08, 2013
Since the 1990s, the Indigenous movement worldwide has become increasingly relevant to research in India, re-shaping the terms of engagement with Adivasi (Indigenous/tribal) peoples and their pasts. This book responds to the growing need for an inter-disciplinary re-assessment of Tribal studies in ...
Pakistan's Stability Paradox: Domestic, Regional and International Dimensions
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashutosh Misra, Michael E. Clarke
October 25, 2013
Pakistan, with the second largest Muslim population in the world, is a crucial country in the international system. It is an ally of the United States in the global ‘war on terror’ but is also regarded as a major bastion of some of the most active jihadist organisations. This book highlights and ...
Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia
1st Edition
By Bina D'Costa
June 07, 2013
This book gives a detailed political analysis of nationbuilding processes and how these are closely linked to statebuilding and to issues of war crime, gender and sexuality, and marginalization of minority groups. With a focus on the Indian subcontinent, the author demonstrates how the state ...
The Culturalization of Caste in India: Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age
1st Edition
By Balmurli Natrajan
May 31, 2013
In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions of how caste survives the ...