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.
Himalayan Frontiers of India: Historical, Geo-Political and Strategic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Warikoo
February 21, 2012
The Himalaya, which is a great natural frontier for India, symbolises India’s spiritual and national consciousness. The Himalayan region displays wide diversity of cultural patterns, languages, ethnic identities and religious practices. Along the Himalayas converge the boundaries of South and ...
Maoism in India: Reincarnation of Ultra-Left Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By Bidyut Chakrabarty, Rajat Kumar Kujur
February 21, 2012
The rise of Maoism as one of the organized political movement in India is the outcome of a historical situation. Both colonialism and the failure of the Indian state to implement land reforms more stringently in the aftermath of independence resulted in terrible sufferings of the marginalized, land...
India’s Energy Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Ligia Noronha, Anant Sudarshan
October 06, 2011
This book explores the multifaceted aspects of India’s energy security concerns. Bringing together a set of opinions and analysis from experts and policymakers, it sheds light on the context of India’s energy insecurity and explores its various dimensions, its nature and extent. Contributors ...
Labor, Democratization and Development in India and Pakistan
1st Edition
By Christopher Candland
October 06, 2011
In this first comparative study of organized labor in India and Pakistan, the author analyses the impact and role of organized labor in democratization and development. The study provides a unique comparative history of Indian and Pakistani labor politics. It begins in the early twentieth century, ...
The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Nepal: Democracy in the Margins
1st Edition
By Susan I. Hangen
October 06, 2011
The relationship between ethnic politics and democracy presents a paradox for scholars and policy makers: ethnic politics frequently emerge in new democracies, and yet are often presumed to threaten these new democracies. As ethnic politics is becoming increasingly central to Nepali politics, this ...
Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: Ethnic and Regional Dimensions
1st Edition
Edited
By Dennis B. McGilvray, Michele R. Gamburd
September 14, 2011
The Indian Ocean Tsunami, which devastated 70 percent of Sri Lanka’s coastline and killed an estimated 35,000 people, was remarkable both for the magnitude of the disaster and for the unprecedented scale of the relief and recovery operations mounted by national and international agencies. The ...
Bengali Cinema: 'An Other Nation'
1st Edition
By Sharmistha Gooptu
May 13, 2011
Covering the years spanning cinema’s emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century, this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema, and leads up to Bengali cinema’s last phase of transition in the 1980s. Arguing that Bengali cinema has been ...
Globalisation and the Middle Classes in India: The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms
1st Edition
By Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Timothy J. Scrase
October 15, 2010
This book fills an important gap in the existing literature on economic liberalization and globalisation in India by providing much needed ethnographic data from those affected by neoliberal globalisation. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, it reveals the complexity of the ...
The South Asian Diaspora: Transnational networks and changing identities
1st Edition
Edited
By Rajesh Rai, Peter Reeves
September 10, 2010
The South Asian Diaspora numbers just under 30 million people worldwide, and it is recognized as the most widely dispersed diaspora. It is, moreover, one which of late has seen phenomenal growth, both due to natural increase and the result of a continued movement of professionals and labourers in ...
India’s Open-Economy Policy: Globalism, Rivalry, Continuity
1st Edition
By Jalal Alamgir
April 08, 2010
This book is the first major exploration of Indian political economy using a constructivist approach. Arguing that India’s open-economy policy was made, justified, and continued on the basis of the idea of openness more than its tangible effect, the book explains what sustained the idea of openness...
Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh: A Complex Web
1st Edition
By Ali Riaz
April 08, 2010
In an unprecedented show of force, organization and skill, two proscribed Islamist militant organizations exploded more than 450 bombs within a span of less than an hour throughout Bangladesh on 17 August 2005 sending a strong message that they were a force to be reckoned with. This ...
Indian Literature and Popular Cinema: Recasting Classics
1st Edition
Edited
By Heidi R.M. Pauwels
December 10, 2009
This book is about the popular cinema of North India ("Bollywood") and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses questions about the interface of film and literature, such as how Bollywood movies rework literary themes, offer different (broader or narrower) interpretations, shift plots, ...