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.
Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services
1st Edition
By Amrita Bagchi
August 26, 2024
This book analyses the development of private healthcare in post-Independence Kolkata, India, and the rapid expansion of private nursing homes and hospitals from a historical and sociological perspective. It offers an examination of the changing pattern of the entire health care sector, which over ...
Identity, Nationhood and Bangladesh Independent Cinema
1st Edition
By Fahmidul Haq, Brian Shoesmith
August 26, 2024
This book analyses how independent filmmakers from Bangladesh have represented national identity in their films. The focus of this book is on independent and art house filmmakers and how cinema plays a vital role in constructing national and cultural identity. The authors examine post-2000 films ...
Indian Literatures in Diaspora
1st Edition
Edited
By Sireesha Telugu
August 26, 2024
This book analyses diasporic literatures written in Indian languages written by authors living outside their homeland and contextualize the understanding of migration and migrant identities. Examining diasporic literature produced in Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Indian Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Marathi,...
Media Discourse in Contemporary India: A Study of Television News
1st Edition
By Sudeshna Devi
August 26, 2024
This book examines the historical trajectory of the growth of the television news and critically analyzes the role of private television news in framing the nature of public discourse in contemporary India. Set in the context of a transformed media landscape, the book attempts to understand and ...
Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka: Counter-history as War after the Tamil Tigers
1st Edition
By A.R. Rajah
August 26, 2024
This book examines Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka and provides insights on how Tamil nationalism has survived the destruction of the Tamil Tigers after May 2009 and continues to thrive, despite the absence of a charismatic leadership to lead it or a centralised organisation to mobilise the Tamils ...
Gender Responsive Budgeting in South Asia: Experience of Bangladeshi Local Government
1st Edition
By Pranab Kumar Panday, Shuvra Chowdhury
January 29, 2024
This book analyzes the practice of local-level participatory planning and budgeting and its impact on gender responsive budgeting (GRB) in Bangladesh. The book offers a conceptual framework that brings into focus the contribution of successful participatory budgeting practice to ensure GRB – the ...
Reading Jhumpa Lahiri: Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora
1st Edition
By Nilanjana Chatterjee
January 29, 2024
This book is an innovative and rigorous study of Jhumpa Lahiri's Indian American female characters' lived and imagined diasporic house space, using domesticity and the house as an analytical tool to explore their hidden domestic spaces. The book explores how the house as a spatial construct, ...
Socio-Cultural Insights of Childbirth in South Asia: Stories of Women in the Himalayas
1st Edition
By Sabitra Kaphle
January 29, 2024
This book analyses the significant socio-cultural factors impacting childbirth experiences of women living in remote and complex social settings. This book challenges the notion that childbirth is a universal biological event which women experience in their reproductive lives and provides an ...
The Geopolitics of Energy in South Asia: Energy Security of Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Chowdhury Ishrak Ahmed Siddiky
January 29, 2024
This book examines the relation between energy and politics in South Asia and explores the geopolitics surrounding energy security in the region. Analyzing energy security and the scramble for resources in South Asia, the book highlights the important role of energy in light of the rapid economic ...
Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema: The Women in Satyajit Ray’s Films
1st Edition
By Devapriya Sanyal
September 25, 2023
This book analyses the role of women in the films of one of the leading filmmakers of the ‘Third World’ in the 1950s, Satyajit Ray, a national icon in filmmaking in India. The book explores the portrayal of women in the context of the creation of national culture after India became independent. ...
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...