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 Politics of Economic Restructuring in India: Economic Governance and State Spatial Rescaling
1st Edition
By Loraine Kennedy
October 23, 2017
State re-scaling is the central concept mobilized in this book to interpret the political processes that are producing new economic spaces in India. In the quarter century since economic reforms were introduced, the Indian economy has experienced strong growth accompanied by extensive sectoral and ...
International Migration and Development in South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Md Rahman, Tan Tai Yong
October 13, 2017
In migration studies, the nexus between migration and development in the global South has been meticulously debated. However, a unanimous resolution to this debate has not been found, due to the ever-changing nature of international migration. This book advances knowledge on the global debate on ...
Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan: Spies and "Terrorists"
1st Edition
By Cara Cilano
October 13, 2017
As the events of 11 September 2001 and their aftermath influence new developments in spy fiction as a popular genre, an examination of these literary narratives concerned with espionage and terrorism can reshape our approach to non-fictive representations of the same concerns. Post-9/11 Espionage ...
Capitalist Development in India's Informal Economy
1st Edition
By Elisabetta Basile
October 12, 2017
This book explores the economy and society of Provincial India in the post-Green Revolution period. It argues that the low 'quality' of capital development in India's villages and small towns is the joint outcome of the informal economic organisation, that is strongly biased in favour of ...
Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka
1st Edition
By Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne
October 12, 2017
Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka. In this book de Silva Wijeyeratne argues forcefully that ‘Sinhalese Buddhism’ in the period prior to its engagement with the British colonial State...
Water, Democracy and Neoliberalism in India: The Power to Reform
1st Edition
By Vicky Walters
October 12, 2017
Since the early 1990s, the achievement of ‘good governance’ has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development. This book presents a critical challenge to the contemporary development paradigm of good governance. Based on original ethnographic fieldwork on urban water ...
Civil Society and Democratization in India: Institutions, Ideologies and Interests
1st Edition
By Sarbeswar Sahoo
June 16, 2017
Developing a distinctive theoretical framework on civil society, this book examines how Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) contribute towards democratization in India and what conditions facilitate or inhibit their contribution. It assesses three different kinds of politics within civil society ...
Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English: Idea, Nation, State
1st Edition
By Cara Cilano
June 16, 2017
Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and ...
Kashmir’s Right to Secede: A Critical Examination of Contemporary Theories of Secession
1st Edition
By Matthew J. Webb
June 16, 2017
A separatist conflict has been ongoing in India-administered Kashmir since 1989. Focusing on this region, this book critiques the existing normative theories of secession, and offers a comprehensive examination of the right of sub-groups to secede. The book looks at the different accounts of the ...
Regional Economic Integration in South Asia: Trapped in Conflict?
1st Edition
By Amita Batra
June 16, 2017
South Asia today is among the most unstable regions in the world, riddled by both intra- and inter-state conflict. This book presents a comprehensive technical analysis of the trade–conflict relationship within the region, and explores how South Asia demonstrates underperformance of its potential ...
Ritual and Recovery in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka
1st Edition
By Jane Derges
June 16, 2017
Following over twenty years of war, Sri Lanka’s longest cease-fire (2002-2006) provided a final opportunity for an inclusive peace settlement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). However, hostilities resumed with ever increasing desperation and ferocity...
Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The Trouser Under the Cloth
1st Edition
By Anoma Pieris
May 31, 2017
The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the ...