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.
Challenge, Continuity, and Change in Pakistan
1st Edition
Edited
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 ...
Bollywood and the First Decade of Independence: Seven Directors in Search of a Nation
1st Edition
By Devapriya Sanyal
July 03, 2025
This book focuses on the cinema of the 1950s in India and analyzes the work of seven filmmakers from mainstream Hindi cinema and how they responded to the independent Indian nation after 1947. The selection of key filmmakers instead of cinema in general shows individual trajectories within cinema. ...
Local Governance Transformation and Citizen Engagement in Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Pranab Kumar Panday, Abdullah- Al-Maruf
June 27, 2025
Local Governance Transformation and Citizen Engagement in Bangladesh offers a thorough investigation of grassroots democratic practices and citizen engagement in local governance in the country and situates Bangladesh's experience within the larger framework of developing countries. With an eye ...
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, ...
Identity, Dispossession and Resilience of the Subaltern: A Study of Marginalised Communities in Kashmir
1st Edition
By Khalid Wasim Hassan, Deepanshu Mohan, Ishfaq Ahmad Wani, Najam Us Saqib
June 06, 2025
Khalid Wasim Hassan, Deepanshu Mohan, Ishfaq Ahmad Wani and Najam Us Saqib examine the processes of marginality and ‘othering’ which the subaltern groups in Kashmir face due to their attribution to a particular social caste, ethnicity, language or status of their citizenship. They further explore ...
Political and Social Change in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas: Understanding Pashtun Youth
1st Edition
By Naveed Ahmad Shinwari
May 27, 2025
This book analyses agency and place of youth within the Pashtun tribal social order in Pakistan. It looks at Pashtun youth as a separate social category, analysing their changing trends of political leadership in Pakistan's former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Presenting an in-depth ...
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 ...
Bangladesh’s Quest for Inclusive Development: Challenges and Pathways
1st Edition
By Mustafa K. Mujeri, Neaz Mujeri
August 26, 2024
The book provides a comprehensive conceptual understanding covering major challenges and pathways to progressively promote inclusive development in Bangladesh. Since independence in 1971, Bangladesh has achieved significant economic growth and social progress, but the benefits have not been shared...
Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture: Can Wellness be Far Behind?
1st Edition
Edited
By Anindita Chatterjee, Nilanjana Chatterjee
August 26, 2024
This book is a cultural exploration of health and wellness, with a focus on impacts of Covid-19 on the population of India. The chapters in this book present original research, systematic reviews, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, encompassing multidisciplinary, inter- and intra-disciplinary...