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.
The Judicialization of Politics in Pakistan: A Comparative Study of Judicial Restraint and its Development in India, the US and Pakistan
1st Edition
By Waris Husain
August 14, 2020
Since 2007, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has emerged as a dominant force in Pakistani politics through its hyper-active use of judicial review, or the power to overrule Parliament’s laws and the Prime Minister’s acts. This hyper-activism was on display during the Supreme Court’s unilateral ...
Bangladesh’s Maritime Policy: Entwining Challenges
1st Edition
By Abul Kalam
June 30, 2020
Following successive international legal verdicts, Bangladesh is now an accredited maritime state. Possessing a spacious territorial sea and an extended continental shelf, with a maritime zone almost equalling its land borders, a ‘window of opportunity’ has opened for the country to realise its ...
Contemporary Literature from Northeast India: Deathworlds, Terror and Survival
1st Edition
By Amit Baishya
June 30, 2020
The Northeast Indian borderlands, a cultural crossroads between South, Southeast and East Asia, constitute an important post-colonial exception to the narratives of nation, troubling the common perception of India as an ostensibly liberal regime. This book is the first to consider the ...
Dalits, Subalternity and Social Change in India
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashok K. Pankaj, Ajit K. Pandey
June 30, 2020
The linguistic origin of the term Dalit is Marathi, and pre-dates the militant-intellectual Dalit Panthers movement of the 1970s. It was not in popular use till the last quarter of the 20th century, the origin of the term Dalit, although in the 1930s, it was used as Marathi-Hindi translation of the...
Health Communication and Sexual Health in India: Interpreting HIV and AIDS messages
1st Edition
By Ravindra Kumar Vemula
June 30, 2020
Over the past few years, ever since the advent of HIV and AIDS, there has been increasing discussion of the concept of sexual health. This upsurge is especially noticeable not only in the field of health education and promotion but also in academic sources. The recent discourse on sexual health is ...
Identity and Marginality in India: Settlement Experience of Afghan Migrants
1st Edition
By Anwesha Ghosh
June 30, 2020
Decades of conflict and war have forced millions of men, women and children to flee from their homes and seek refuge in other parts of the country or in foreign lands - Afghanistan is one such country.This book is a study of the displaced Afghan migrant population in India, in particular the ...
Land-Water Management and Sustainability in Bangladesh: Indigenous practices in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
1st Edition
By Ranjan Datta
June 30, 2020
Indigenous sustainability and environmental management cannot be understood apart from a community, its traditions, and ways of practices. Interest in Indigenous environmental sustainability has grown steadily in past years, reflecting traditional cultural perspectives about the environment and ...
New Perspectives on India and Turkey: Connections and Debates
1st Edition
Edited
By Smita Jassal, Halil Turan
June 30, 2020
India and Turkey, Asia Minor and the Subcontinent of Hindustan, and the Ottomans and Mughals have had shared histories of contact, engagement, and dialogue over the centuries. Much of northern India was under the control of rulers from Central Asia since at least the thirteenth century. Startling ...
The Rule of Law in Developing Countries: The Case of Bangladesh
1st Edition
Edited
By Chowdhury Ishrak Ahmed Siddiky
December 17, 2019
Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries in the world and second in South Asia, is known for its natural disasters, floods and political violence. However, the country plans to become a middle-income country by 2020 due to rapid economic growth led by strong and vibrant garments...
Culture, Health and Development in South Asia: Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh
1st Edition
By M. Islam
December 12, 2019
Recently, mass arsenic poisoning of groundwater has emerged as a disastrous public health concern in Bangladesh. Apart from hundreds of deaths that have already been reported, 85 million people are estimated to be at high risk of developing deadly arsenicosis symptoms. The severity and extent of ...
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. ...