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.
Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia: Craftspeople and Performers
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Morcom, Neelam Raina
May 22, 2026
This book explores the crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood. It brings to light little-researched angles of social and political economies of culture and the ways in which they have shifted and changed in different historical eras and different political...
Marginalised Groups in India: Historiography, Politics, and Policies
1st Edition
Edited
By Kunal Debnath, Souvik Chatterjee
May 22, 2026
This book intersects marginality, politics, and policies by focusing on the narratives of selective marginalised groups within India. Encouraging inclusive government policies that consider the diverse identities of individuals and groups within India, this book is a systematic documentation of the...
Empowering Marginalised Women in Remote Indian Villages: An Impact Study
1st Edition
By Udoy Saikia, Jim Chalmers, Dency Michael, Janice Orrell
December 26, 2025
Saikia, Chalmers, Michael and Orrell explore the impact of social education on gender inequalities in rural Tamil Nadu where highland women’s lives are damaged by discrimination, marginalisation and deprivation. Social education refers to agent-oriented learning experiences focused on power ...
Foreign Aid and Bangladesh: Donor Relations and Realpolitik
1st Edition
By Mohammad Mizanur Rahman
December 26, 2025
Foreign Aid and Bangladesh offers a rich combination of aid history – from the evolution of aid as a global agenda after WWII to the rise of different multilateral, bilateral, and emerging donors and their policy shifts – and a nuanced perspective of aid partnerships at the country level. ...
Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India: Perspectives from a Feminist Ethnographic Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Deepanshu Mohan, Sakshi Chindaliya, Ashika Thomas
December 26, 2025
Mohan, Chindaliya, and Thomas offer an ethnographic critique of modern, neoliberal India from the perspective of studying the daily lives-livelihoods of marginalised, unsecured, informal vulnerable communities residing in the urban, peri-urban spaces across the nation. With case studies ranging ...
Pakistan and International Law: Dynamics of Identity and State Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Ahmad Ghouri
October 23, 2025
Pakistan and International Law: Dynamics of Identity and State Practice offers a pioneering exploration of Pakistan’s evolving relationship with international law. Framed through the lens of state identity, this volume critically examines how Pakistan, as a post-colonial and Muslim-majority ...
Challenge, Continuity, and Change in Pakistan
1st Edition
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By Amit Ranjan, Ian Talbot
October 14, 2025
This book brings a multi-disciplinary approach to studying Pakistan’s contemporary political, social and environmental challenges. It offers insights from various disciplines to show the interconnectedness of many of Pakistan’s problems and their historical roots. The analysis includes issues of ...
The Subject of the Nation and his 'Others' in Hindi Cinema: Gender, Religious, Caste, and Ethnic Identity as Difference
1st Edition
By MK Raghavendra
September 17, 2025
This book analyzes the representations of the subjects of Hindi cinema as a way of gaining insights into the hegemony of the upper-caste Hindu male in narratives of nationhood. Given that Hindi cinema has narrativized the nation after 1947, the book examines how these subjects were chosen and ...
E-Government in Bangladesh: Governance and Public Service Delivery
1st Edition
By Jannatul Ferdous
August 01, 2025
This book examines the background and impact of e-government in rural Bangladesh. Focusing on the Union Digital Centers (UDCs), established by the Union Parishad, this book analyzes how such centers influence rural communities. The UDCs were created to afford electronic access to a wide range of ...
Urban Mobility Development in Northeast India: Sustainable City with Green and Inclusive Transportation
1st Edition
By Tumbenthung Y. Humtsoe
June 27, 2025
Urban Mobility Development in Northeast India theoretically and empirically explores the interrelationship between and among city, transportation, economic growth and environment to contribute towards engendering green urbanization for green growth. In a time of aggravating environmental crisis, ...
Fifty Years of Bangladesh: Economy, Politics, Society and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Rounaq Jahan, Rehman Sobhan
May 06, 2025
Fifty Years of Bangladesh portrays the multi-faceted dimensions of Bangladesh’s development journey, its economic and social transformation and political and cultural contestations. The book presents new empirical data supplemented with critical analysis of processes, actors and actions that have ...
Civil Society and Pakistan's Economy: Robber Barons and Meritocracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Fayyaz Baqir
October 09, 2024
This book analyses the paradoxes of Pakistan’s economy, meritocratic domestic policy, and the role of the state and the civil society. It argues that the transition in the county’s foreign policy from geo-politics to geo-economic depends on a fundamental domestic policy transition from kleptocracy ...