Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
About the Book Series
Founding Editor: Subrata K. Mitra, University of Heidelberg, Germany
South Asia, with its burgeoning, ethnically diverse population, soaring economies, and nuclear weapons, is an increasingly important region in the global context. The series, which builds on this complex, dynamic and volatile area, features innovative and original research on the region as a whole or on the countries. Its scope extends to scholarly works drawing on history, politics, development studies, sociology and economics of individual countries from the region as well those that take an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the area as a whole or to a comparison of two or more countries from this region. In terms of theory and method, rather than basing itself on any one orthodoxy, the series draws broadly on the insights germane to area studies, as well as the tool kit of the social sciences in general, emphasizing comparison, the analysis of the structure and processes, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods.
Works in the series are published simultaneously in UK/ US and India editions, as well as in e-book format. The series welcomes submissions from established authors in the field as well as from young authors who have recently completed their doctoral dissertations who wish to publish their first monograph under the care of the experienced Editorial Team.
If you wish to submit a proposal, please contact the series editor:
Rani D. Mullen, William and Mary, USA: [email protected]
and Dorothea Schaefter, Senior Editor, Routledge: [email protected]
Engaging Pakistan: The History of British and American Public Diplomacy in Troubled Times
1st Edition
By Ian Talbot
November 04, 2025
Engaging Pakistan examines the role of British and American Public Diplomacy in Pakistan. It focuses on case studies located in two periods (1955-64 and 2008-12) during which there was both intense public diplomacy activity and increasing public hostility particularly towards the US. Putting forth ...
Afghanistan and International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By William Maley, Ali Yawar Adili, Paul Lushenko
August 19, 2025
This book explores various dimensions of recent international relations scholarship, taking the case of Afghanistan as a point of departure for discussion of these different themes. Contributors investigate a broad range of topics, including international relations theory, the nature of global ...
Deconstructing India-Pakistan Relations: State Security and Colonial History
1st Edition
By Sanjeev Kumar H. M.
May 06, 2025
This book examines the complex dynamics of India-Pakistan relations, by situating the same in the postcolonial setting of the subcontinent. In pursuit of this, the book analyses the impact of the linkages between the postcolonial processes of state-making and the structuring of political ...
Pathways of Autocratization: The Tumultuous Journey of Bangladeshi Politics
1st Edition
By Ali Riaz
April 14, 2025
Pathways of Autocratization addresses one of the most important questions in contemporary global politics: how does a country regress from a democracy to an autocracy? This book offers a novel framework for understanding the processes that erode democracy and lead to autocracy and explains a ...
The Changing Dynamics of Civil Military Relations in Pakistan: Soldiers of Development
1st Edition
By Rabia Chaudhry
December 18, 2024
The Changing Dynamics of Civil Military Relations in Pakistan offers a unique insiders’ perspective on the political climate in the country, presenting the challenges established in boundaries of interaction between the state and its military. This book argues that the prospects of another ...
Faith and Politics in South Asia: Exegesis in International Relations
1st Edition
By Astha Chadha
November 18, 2024
This book explores the role of faith and politics in shaping the international relations of South Asia. Adopting a neoclassical realist framework and a discourse-historical approach to analyse how religious actors construct their political identities and interests through the interpretation of ...
Urban Development and Environmental History in Modern South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Talbot, Amit Ranjan
August 26, 2024
This book provides a pioneering study of the historical interaction between the city and the natural environment from the colonial to the contemporary era in South Asia. The book provides a multidisciplinary analysis examining the environmental history of the city and bringing together ...
Hindu Nationalism in South India: The Rise of Saffron in Kerala
1st Edition
Edited
By Nissim Mannathukkaren
July 31, 2024
Hindu Nationalism in South India engages with a range of factors that shapes the trajectory of Hindu nationalism in Kerala, the southern state of India. Until recently, Kerala was considered a socio-political exception which had no room for Hindu nationalism. This book questions such Panglossian ...
New Welfare Policy and Democratic Politics in India
1st Edition
By Prakash Sarangi
June 11, 2024
New Welfare Policy and Democratic Politics in India offers an analysis of India’s welfare policy during the last couple of decades. It looks at how welfare policy making is viewed as a function of party competition and voter mobilization, showing a gradual transformation of political clients into ...
India’s Grand Strategy and Foreign Policy: Strategic Pluralism and Subcultures
1st Edition
By Bernhard Beitelmair-Berini
January 09, 2023
The book explores the competing grand strategic worldviews shaping India’s foreign and security policies by analyzing the interaction between normative modern international relations theories and vernacular concepts of statecraft and strategy. To assess the diverse competing ideas which ...
Civil-Military Relations and Global Security Governance: Strategy, Hybrid Orders and the Case of Pakistan
1st Edition
By Cornelia Baciu
September 26, 2022
This book investigates the relationship between international security governance, democratic civil-military relations and the relevance of strategy, as well as of absolute and relative gains, in norms formation in hybrid orders. Highlighting caveats of the legacy of Huntington’s paradigm of ...
Perspectives on Contemporary Pakistan: Governance, Development and Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Ghulam Ali, Ejaz Hussain
August 01, 2022
This book analyses problems of governance, development and environment affecting contemporary Pakistan; issues that lie at the centre of federal and provincial policy deliberations, formulation and implementation. The book offers a comprehensive assessment of the policies, or lack thereof. Authors...