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.
Death and Dying in India: Ageing and end-of-life care of the elderly
1st Edition
By Suhita Chopra Chatterjee, Jaydeep Sengupta
December 12, 2019
Most aged in India are experiencing a highly protracted death in hospitals, entangled in tubes and machines. Such ‘medicalised death’ entails huge psychological, social and financial costs for both patients and their caregivers. There are also many who are dying in abject neglect. However, ...
Documentary Film in India: An Anthropological History
1st Edition
By Giulia Battaglia
December 12, 2019
This book maps a hundred years of documentary film practices in India. It demonstrates that in order to study the development of a film practice, it is necessary to go beyond the classic analysis of films and filmmakers and focus on the discourses created around and about the practice in question. ...
India�s Approach to Development Cooperation
1st Edition
Edited
By Sachin Chaturvedi, Anthea Mulakala
December 12, 2019
India is emerging as a key player in the development cooperation arena, not only because of the increasing volume and reach of its south-south cooperation but more so because of its leadership and advocacy for the development of a distinctly southern development discourse and knowledge generation. ...
Media as Politics in South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Sahana Udupa, Stephen McDowell
December 12, 2019
The dramatic expansion of the media and communications sector since the 1990s has brought South Asia on the global scene as a major center for media production and consumption. This book is the first overview of media expansion and its political ramifications in South Asia during these years of ...
Migration of Labour in India: The squatter settlements of Delhi
1st Edition
By Himmat Ratnoo
December 12, 2019
Migration – both within and between countries – is increasingly one of the world's most important policy issues. The faster the Indian economy grows, the larger will be the geographical redistribution of the workforce from localities of low to those of high employment growth. Thus, territorial ...
Popular Hindi Cinema: Aesthetic Formations of the Seen and Unseen
1st Edition
By Ronie Parciack
December 12, 2019
The popular Hindi film industry is the largest in India and the most conspicuous film industry in the non-Western world. This book analyses the pivotal visual and narrative conventions employed in popular Hindi films through the combined prism of film studies and classical Indian philosophy and ...
Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya
1st Edition
Edited
By Megan Adamson Sijapati, Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz
December 12, 2019
Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya. Increased economic and cultural flows, growth in tourism, and new forms of governance and media, however, have brought significant changes to the religious traditions of the region in the twentieth and ...
Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers: (Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society
1st Edition
By Sandya Hewamanne
December 12, 2019
In Sri Lanka, the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) employs thousands of unmarried rural women, and their migration has aroused deep anxieties over female morality and ideal conduct. This book focuses on the global factory workers based in the FTZ, and analyzes intersections of gender, class and sexuality by ...
Ethics in Governance in India
1st Edition
By Bidyut Chakrabarty
May 14, 2019
Governance and ethics are intertwined. A government functions within certain broad moral and ethical parameters, integrally linked with the sociological foundation of the polity in which it is articulated. The importance of ethics in governance has acquired a significant place in contemporary ...
The Indian Partition in Literature and Films: History, Politics, and Aesthetics
1st Edition
Edited
By Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
May 14, 2019
This book presents an examination of fictional representations, in books and films, of the 1947 Partition that led to the creation of the sovereign nation-states of India and Pakistan. While the process of representing the Partition experience through words and images began in the late 1940s, it is...
Islamic Banking in Pakistan: Shariah-Compliant Finance and the Quest to make Pakistan more Islamic
1st Edition
By Feisal Khan
February 04, 2019
Islamic Banking and Finance (IBF) has become a growing force over the past three decades, with Pakistan being one of the IBF pioneers by converting to an ‘interest-free’ banking system in 1985. However, since independence in 1947, there has been continual tension over Pakistan’s essential character...
Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India: Globalizing Muscular Nationalism
1st Edition
By Sikata Banerjee
August 23, 2018
Interpretations of manhood have unfolded in India within a middle class cultural milieu shaped by an assertive self-confidence fuelled by liberalisation, a process by which India has been integrated into the global political economy and the prominence of Hindutva or Hindu nationalist politics. ...