Routledge / Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Series
About the Book Series
This Routledge series is published in cooperation with the ASAA to promote outstanding work and innovative scholarship in the humanities, arts, and social sciences on South Asia, here understood to be work emerging from or dealing with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and the Indo-Pacific region. The series publishes excellent research on the countries, peoples, politics, literatures, and cultures of South Asia across a wide range of disciplines including history, politics and political economy, anthropology, geography, literature, sociology and the fields of cultural studies, communication studies, studies of religion and ethnicity, and women, gender, and sexuality studies, among others. We encourage interdisciplinary and comparative research, and the Co-Editors are also interested in unpublished manuscripts that stretch the interstices of area studies, identity studies, and technology studies in/ of South Asia into the 21st century.
Works in the series are published simultaneously in UK/ US and India editions, as well as in e-book format. Publications include single-authored monographs and edited volumes by authors based anywhere in the world.
The series welcomes new submissions!
Series Editors:
Rahul K. Gairola, Murdoch University, Australia
Please contact AnnaMary Goodall, Editor, Routledge with "ASAA South Asia series" in the subject line if you wish to submit a new proposal.
Email: [email protected] with a copy to [email protected]
International Editorial Advisory Board
Meera Ashar, Australian National University; Nandi Bhatia, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Chandan Bose, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India; Priya Chacko, University of Adelaide, Australia; Assa Doron, Australian National University; Bina Fernandez, The University of Melbourne, Australia; Rashmi Gaur, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India; Amanda Gilbertson, The University of Melbourne, Australia; Michael Gillan, University of Western Australia; Rachita Gulati, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India; Ramaswami Harindranath, UNSW Australia; Nalini Iyer, Seattle University, USA; Ritu Khanduri, University of Texas, Arlington, USA; Ketu Katrak, University of California, Irvine, USA; Suvir Kaul, University of Pennsylvania, USA; Kama Maclean, UNSW Australia; Irfan Nooruddin, Georgetown University, USA; Geeta Patel, University of Virginia, USA; Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University, USA; Dibyadyuti Roy, University of Leeds, UK; Debjani Sengupta, University of Delhi, India; Sunera Thobani, University of British Columbia, Canada; Asha Varadharajan, Queen’s University, Canada; Anand Yang, University of Washington, USA.
Citizenship in Dalit and Indigenous Australian Literatures
1st Edition
By Riya Mukherjee
January 30, 2025
Citizenship in Dalit and Indigenous Australian Literatures examines the difference in citizenship as experienced by the communities of Dalits in India and Aboriginals in Australia through an analysis of select literature by authors of these marginalised groups. Aligning the voices of two ...
South Asian Disability and Deaf Theatres
1st Edition
By Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren
January 28, 2025
South Asian Disability and Deaf Theatres investigates translocal intimacies in relation to twenty-first-century transnational South Asian disability theatres in order to lay out new possibilities for accessible theatres. The book provides a theoretical and methodological framework for thinking ...
Women’s Empowerment and Microcredit Programmes in India: The Possibilities and Limitations of Self-Help Groups
1st Edition
By Annabel Dulhunty
December 18, 2024
Women’s Empowerment and Microcredit Programs in India examines the value of microcredit-based self-help groups (SHGs) for women in India and provides an alternative model for women’s empowerment programming. The microcredit sector continues to boom globally - with private investors, governments ...
Occupational Mobility in Contemporary India: Beyond One Generation Into the Future
1st Edition
By Nawazuddin Ahmed, D.K. Nauriyal
November 28, 2024
This book analyses the magnitude of the relationship between family background and adult occupational and educational outcomes and provides a comprehensive view of intergenerational mobility in the context of religious and caste dynamics in India. Based on nationally representative data sets, the ...
Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal: The Making of a Moral Community
1st Edition
By Ananya Dasgupta
October 09, 2024
This book is a historical exploration of the social and cultural processes that led to the rise of the ideology of labor as a touchstone of Bengali Muslim politics in late colonial India. The book argues that the tremendous popularity of the Pakistan movement in Bengal is to be understood not just ...
The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas: From Desi to Brown
1st Edition
Edited
By Yasmin Jiwani, Arjun Tremblay, Mohita Bhatia
September 17, 2024
The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas explores the emancipatory potential and pitfalls of digital platforms and how well or how poorly they reflect intra-communal diversities within South Asian diasporic communities. This book brings together an international network of scholars, ...
Aid, Politics and the War of Narratives in the US-Pakistan Relations: A Case Study of Kerry Lugar Berman Act
1st Edition
By Hussain Nadim
August 26, 2024
This book analyses the aid, politics and the war of narratives between the US and Pakistan under the Kerry Lugar Berman Act (2009–2013), using the security-development nexus as a framing discourse and taking a decolonial approach to the subject. The book explores the politics of US foreign aid to ...
Children and NGOs in India: Development as Storytelling and Performance
1st Edition
By Annie McCarthy
January 09, 2023
This book is an ethnographic exploration of slum children’s participation in NGO programs that centres children’s narratives as key to understanding the lived experience of development in India where 50% of the population is under the age of 25. Weaving theoretical and methodological ...
Ahmadiyya Islam and the Muslim Diaspora: Living at the End of Days
1st Edition
By Marzia Balzani
August 29, 2022
This book is a study of the UK-based Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the context of the twentieth-century South Asian diaspora. Originating in late nineteenth-century Punjab, the Ahmadis are today a vibrant international religious movement; they are also a group that has been declared heretic by ...
Pakistan, Regional Security and Conflict Resolution: The Pashtun ‘Tribal’ Areas
1st Edition
By Farooq Yousaf
August 01, 2022
This book explains how colonial legacies and the postcolonial state of Pakistan negatively influenced the socio-political and cultural dynamics and the security situation in Pakistan’s Pashtun ‘tribal’ areas, formerly known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). It offers a local ...
Transitional Justice in Nepal: Interests, Victims and Agency
1st Edition
By Yvette Selim
August 14, 2020
The conflict in Nepal (1996 – 2006) resulted in an estimated 15,000 deaths, 1,300 disappearances, along with other serious human rights and humanitarian law violations. Demands for peace, democracy, accountability and development, have abounded in the post-conflict context. Although the conflict ...
Women and Domestic Violence in Bangladesh: Seeking A Way Out of the Cage
1st Edition
By Laila Ashrafun
August 14, 2020
After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has experienced large-scale transformations owing to national and international migration, urbanization, the development of many national and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and economic dynamism. Globalization and ...