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.
South Asian Security: 21st Century Discourses
1st Edition
Edited
By Sagarika Dutt, Alok Bansal
July 31, 2015
The South Asian security complex refers to security interdependencies between the states in the region, and also includes the effect that powerful external actors, such as China, the US and Russia, and geopolitical interests have on regional dynamics. This book focuses on the national securities of...
The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan: The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir Ethnic Movements
1st Edition
By Farhan Hanif Siddiqi
July 31, 2015
In order to understand the Pakistani state and government’s treatment of non-dominant ethnic groups after the failure of the military operation in East Pakistan and the independence of Bangladesh, this book looks at the ethnic movements that were subject to a military operation after 1971: the ...
Transforming Urban Water Supplies in India: The Role of Reform and Partnerships in Globalization
1st Edition
By Govind Gopakumar
July 31, 2015
The absence of water supply infrastructure is a critical issue that affects the sustainability of cities in the developing world and the quality of life of millions of people living in these cities. Urban India has probably the largest concentration of people in the world lacking safe access to ...
Transitional Justice in South Asia: A Study of Afghanistan and Nepal
1st Edition
By Tazreena Sajjad
July 31, 2015
Offering a comparative case study of transitional justice processes in Afghanistan and Nepal, this book critically evaluates the way the "local" is consulted in post-conflict efforts toward peace and reconciliation. It argues that there is a tendency in transitional justice efforts to contain the ...
Corporate Social Responsibility in India
1st Edition
By Bidyut Chakrabarty
July 22, 2015
Presenting an analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India, this book looks at the unique roots of the concept in India. It examines Gandhi’s philosophical moorings that inform India’s approach to CSR, and the role of civil society in setting an agenda for championing the rights of ...
Education and Inequality in India: A Classroom View
1st Edition
By Manabi Majumdar, Jos Mooij
July 22, 2015
Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India. This book looks at the reproduction of social inequalities within the educational system in India, and how this is contested in different ways. It examines whether the concept of `education for all’ is just a ...
Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India: From Warfare to Welfare?
1st Edition
By Mona Bhan
July 16, 2015
The rhetoric of armed social welfare has become prominent in military and counterinsurgency circuits with profound consequences for the meanings of democracy, citizenship, and humanitarianism in conflict zones. By focusing on the border district of Kargil, the site of India and Pakistan’s fourth ...
The Labour Movement in the Global South: Trade Unions in Sri Lanka
1st Edition
By S. Janaka Biyanwila
May 21, 2015
Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains union capacities to mobilise workers as a part...
National Identities in Pakistan: The 1971 war in contemporary Pakistani fiction
1st Edition
By Cara Cilano
February 27, 2015
In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the remaining four western provinces to comprise a truncated Pakistan. This book examines how literature by those who remained Pakistanis acts as a ...
Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema
1st Edition
By Rajinder Dudrah
September 11, 2014
Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the popular Hindi cinema of India. It analyses and discusses a range of key contemporary ...
Microcredit and Women's Empowerment: A Case Study of Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Aminul Faraizi, Taskinur Rahman, Jim McAllister
September 11, 2014
Using a case study of Bangladesh, and based on a long term participatory observation method, this book investigates claims of the success of microcredit, as well as the critiques of it, in the context of women’s empowerment. It confronts the distinction between women’s increasing wealth as a ...
Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Lau, Ana Cristina Mendes
September 11, 2014
Orientalism refers to the imitation of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West, and was devised in order to have authority over the Orient. The concept of Re-Orientalism maintains the divide between the Orient and the West. However, where Orientalism is based on how the West constructs the East, ...