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 NGOs in Bangladesh: Development, Piety and Neoliberal governmentality
1st Edition
By Mohammad Musfequs Salehin
August 14, 2018
NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) have emerged in both a development and aid capacity in Bangladesh, providing wide-reaching public services to the country’s population living in extreme poverty. However, resistance to and limitations of NGO-led development - which in conjunction with ...
State and Nation-Building in Pakistan: Beyond Islam and Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger D. Long, Gurharpal Singh, Yunas Samad, Ian Talbot
August 14, 2018
Religion, violence, and ethnicity are all intertwined in the history of Pakistan. The entrenchment of landed interests, operationalized through violence, ethnic identity, and power through successive regimes has created a system of ‘authoritarian clientalism.’ This book offers comparative, ...
Devotional Islam in Contemporary South Asia: Shrines, Journeys and Wanderers
1st Edition
Edited
By Michel Boivin, Remy Delage
June 28, 2018
The Muslim shrine is at the crossroad of many processes involving society and culture. It is the place where a saint – often a Sufi - is buried, and it works as a main social factor, with the power of integrating or rejecting people and groups, and as a mirror reflecting the intricacies of a ...
Epigraphy and Islamic Culture: Inscriptions of the Early Muslim Rulers of Bengal (1205-1494)
1st Edition
By Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq
June 28, 2018
Architectural inscriptions are a fascinating aspect of Islamic cultural heritage because of their rich and diverse historical contents and artistic merits. These inscriptions help us understand the advent of Islam and its gradual diffusion in Bengal, which eventually resulted in a Muslim majority ...
Ethnic Subnationalist Insurgencies in South Asia: Identities, Interests and Challenges to State Authority
1st Edition
By Jugdep S. Chima
June 28, 2018
This book provides a micro-historical analysis of the emergence and contemporary dynamics of recent ethnic sub-nationalist insurgencies in South Asia. Using comparative case studies, it discusses the causes of each insurgency, analyses the trajectory and dynamics of each including attempts at ...
Political Economy of Development in India: Indigeneity in Transition in the State of Kerala
1st Edition
By Darley Kjosavik, Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam
June 28, 2018
In the Global South, indigenous people have been continuously subjected to top-down, and often violent, processes of post-colonial state and nation building. This book examines the development dilemmas of the indigenous people (adivasis) of the Indian state of Kerala. It explores the different ...
Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: A Freedom Incomplete
1st Edition
By Srimati Mukherjee
June 08, 2018
Historically, Indian cinema has positioned women at the intersection of tradition and a more evolving culture, portraying contradictory attitudes which affect women’s roles in public and private spheres. Examining the work of three directors from West Bengal, this book addresses the juxtaposition ...
Writing the City in British Asian Diasporas
1st Edition
Edited
By Sean McLoughlin, William Gould, Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Emma Tomalin
June 01, 2018
In 1962, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act hastened the process of South Asian migration to postcolonial Britain. Half a decade later, now is an opportune moment to revisit the accumulated writing about the diasporas formed through subsequent settlement, and to probe the ways in which the South Asian...
Social Movements and the Indian Diaspora
1st Edition
By Movindri Reddy
April 17, 2018
With the elevation of Islam and Muslim transnational networks in international affairs, from the rise of Al Qaeda to the revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East, the study of Diasporas and transnational identities has become more relevant. Using case studies from Fiji, Mauritius, Trinidad ...
Subaltern Movements in India: Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development
1st Edition
By Manisha Desai
April 17, 2018
Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies. Based ...
The Bengal Diaspora: Rethinking Muslim migration
1st Edition
By Claire Alexander, Joya Chatterji, Annu Jalais
April 17, 2018
India’s partition in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 saw the displacement and resettling of millions of Muslims and Hindus, resulting in profound transformations across the region. A third of the region’s population sought shelter across new borders, almost all of them resettling in the...
Indian Capitalism in Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Harriss-White, Judith Heyer
January 24, 2018
Recognising the different ways that capitalism is theorised, this book explores various aspects of contemporary capitalism in India. Using field research at a local level to engage with larger issues, it raises questions about the varieties and processes of capitalism, and about the different roles...