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.
Nationalism in India: Texts and Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Debajyoti Biswas, John Charles Ryan
September 25, 2023
This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on nationalism in India and examines the ways in which literary-textual representations intervene in debates regarding Hindu, Muslim and other forms of Indian nationalism. The book interrogates questions of nationalism and nationhood in relation to ...
Inside Afghanistan: Political Networks, Informal Order, and State Disruption
1st Edition
By Timor Sharan
May 31, 2023
This book maps out how political networks and centres of power, engaged in patronage, corruption, and illegality, effectively constituted the Afghan state, often with the complicity of the U.S.-led military intervention and the internationally directed statebuilding project. It argues that politics...
Transdisciplinary Ethnography in India: Women in the Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosa Maria Perez, Lina M. Fruzzetti
May 31, 2023
This book familiarises readers with a new way to treat the subject of gender, foregrounding the real voices of women, their experiences doing ethnographic work, and their courage in sharing their stories publicly for the first time in the context of India. A useful companion to more theory-based ...
Ethnic Inequality in the Northeastern Indian Borderlands: Social Structures and Symbolic Violence
1st Edition
By Anita Lama
January 09, 2023
Ethnic Inequality in the Northeastern Indian Borderlands analyses the relationship between symbolic violence, inequality and ethnicity, and addresses the question of unequal integration of small ethnic groups into state structures by using the Limbus of the Northeastern Indian borderlands as a case...
Globalising Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography
1st Edition
Edited
By Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Henrike Donner
January 09, 2023
This book brings together historical and ethnographic perspectives on Indian consumer identities. Through an in-depth analysis of local, regional, and national histories of marketing, regulatory bodies, public and domestic practices, this interdisciplinary volume charts the emergence of Indian ...
The Bangladesh Garment Industry and the Global Supply Chain: Choices and Constraints of Management
1st Edition
By Shahidur Rahman
January 09, 2023
This book analyzes the choices and constraints of management within the Bangladesh garment industry and how management negotiates these challenges to ensure the global garment supply chain is sustainable. Exploring the international South Asian garment industry and using middle management and the ...
Terrorism and the US Drone Attacks in Pakistan: Killing First
1st Edition
By Imdad Ullah
September 26, 2022
This book analyses the US drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan to assess whether the ‘pre-emptive’ use of combat drones to kill terrorists is ever legally justified. Exploring the doctrinal discourse of pre-emption vis-à-vis the US drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan, the book ...
Bangladesh and International Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohammad Shahabuddin
August 29, 2022
This book is the first-ever comprehensive analysis of international law from Global South perspectives with specific reference to Bangladesh. The book not only sheds new light on classical international law concepts, such as statehood, citizenship, and self-determination, but also covers more ...
Kashmir and the Future of South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal
August 01, 2022
This book uses an innovative people-centered approach to the Kashmir problem to shed new light on why postcolonial partitions remain unfinished and why the wounds of postcolonial nation-state formation in South Asia continue to fester. "Kashmir" is viewed as a metaphor for the permanent internal ...
Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia: Bangladesh after Rana Plaza
1st Edition
Edited
By Sanchita Saxena
June 30, 2021
This book argues that larger flaws in the global supply chain must first be addressed to change the way business is conducted to prevent factory owners from taking deadly risks to meet clients’ demands in the garment industry in Bangladesh.Using the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster as a departure point, ...
Education and Society in Bhutan: Tradition and modernisation
1st Edition
By Chelsea M. Robles
March 31, 2021
Bhutan's education sector has attracted international attention for recent reforms driven by the national development philosophy of Gross National Happiness, which aspires to balance change with the continuity of tradition. This book traces the history of education in Bhutan and reveals that, as ...
Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re-imagining Rights in India
1st Edition
By Maya Unnithan
March 31, 2021
Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state, caste and kin groups. Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years among poor Hindu and ...