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.
Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation
1st Edition
By Megan Adamson Sijapati
May 07, 2013
This book draws on extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal to examine the local and global factors that shape contemporary Muslim identity and the emerging Islamic revival movement based in the Kathmandu valley. Nepal's Muslims are active participants in the larger global movement of Sunni ...
Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan: Violence and Transformation in the Karachi Conflict
1st Edition
By Nichola Khan
July 20, 2012
Synthesizing political, anthropological and psychological perspectives, this book addresses the everyday causes and appeal of long-term involvement in extreme political violence in urban Pakistan. Taking Pakistan’s ethno nationalist Mohajir party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) as a case study,...
The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Revolution in the Twenty-first Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Mahendra Lawoti, Anup Kumar Pahari
April 30, 2012
The book deals with the dynamics and growth of a violent 21st century communist rebellion initiated in Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) – CPN(M). It contextualizes and explains why and how a violent Maoist insurgency grew in Nepal after the end of the Cold War, in contrast to the ...
The State in India after Liberalization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Akhil Gupta, Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan
April 30, 2012
This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. It is clear that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in dramatic increases in productivity and ...
Development, Democracy and the State: Critiquing the Kerala Model of Development
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Ravi Raman
April 10, 2012
The Indian state of Kerala is known for its high social model of development and social democratic governance. This book presents the most comprehensive analysis of the Kerala Model of Social Development to date. The model has often been identified as one worth emulating because it is seen to have ...
Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India
1st Edition
By Ravi Raman
March 29, 2012
This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. The author focuses on labour and economic development problems ...
Water Policy Processes in India: Discourses of Power and Resistance
1st Edition
By Vandana Asthana
March 29, 2012
The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically-liberalizing India. Since the 1990s, large social groups across India's diverse and disparate peoples have been re-negotiating their cultural relationships with each other as to whether they support or oppose ...
Minority Governments in India: The Puzzle of Elusive Majorities
1st Edition
By Csaba Nikolenyi
March 28, 2012
India's national parliamentary elections typically result in the election of majority parliaments and the formation of a single-party majority government. However, India’s national party system has changed beyond recognition since the parliamentary elections of 1989. The Congress Party has lost its...
NGOs in India: The challenges of women's empowerment and accountability
1st Edition
By Patrick Kilby
March 21, 2012
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. By ...
Regionalism in South Asia: Negotiating Cooperation, Institutional Structures
1st Edition
By Kishore C. Dash
March 21, 2012
The dramatic surge in regional integration schemes over the past two decades has been one of the most important developments in world politics. Virtually all countries are now members of at least one regional grouping. South Asia is no exception to this trend. In December 1985, seven South Asian ...
Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya
1st Edition
Edited
By Arjun Guneratne
March 02, 2012
This book is concerned with human-environment relations in the Himalaya. It explores how different populations and communities in the region understand or conceive of the concept of environment, how their concepts vary across lines of gender, class, age, status, and what this implies for policy ...
Economic and Human Development in Contemporary India: Cronyism and Fragility
1st Edition
By Debdas Banerjee
March 02, 2012
This book deals with issues in economic development in India. It highlights those factors that are indicative of India’s emergence in the global economy yet indicates negative "trickle down" effects, such as malnutrition, poverty, bonded labourers, high adult unemployment and the widespread use of ...