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]
The Construction of History and Nationalism in India: Textbooks, Controversies and Politics
1st Edition
By Sylvie Guichard
March 29, 2012
Most studies on nations and nationalism argue that history, or more precisely a 'common past', is crucial for the process of national identity building. However, the existence of one or more concurrent narratives for the construction of this identity is often not accounted for, and there are cases ...
The Politics of Social Exclusion in India: Democracy at the Crossroads
1st Edition
Edited
By Harihar Bhattacharyya, Partha Sarkar, Angshuman Kar
March 28, 2012
Social exclusion and inclusion remain issues of fundamental importance to democracy. Both exclusion and inclusion relate to the access to participation in the public realm, public goods and services for certain groups of people who are minorities, marginalized and deprived. Democratization has led ...
Parliamentary Control and Government Accountability in South Asia: A Comparative Analysis of Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka
1st Edition
By Taiabur Rahman
March 21, 2012
Parliaments or legislatures are the keystone of democratic governance and they are critical in securing government accountability. This book presents a comparative analysis of the role of parliamentary committees in securing government accountability in the three largest and most important ...
Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage
1st Edition
By Alf Gunvald Nilsen
February 21, 2012
This book deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams, with a particular focus on the Narmada Valley projects in India. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and research, the author draws on Marxist theory to craft a detailed analysis of how local demands for ...
Party System Change in South India: Political Entrepreneurs, Patterns and Processes
1st Edition
By Andrew Wyatt
February 20, 2012
This book provides a systematic exploration of party system change. By applying the concept of political entrepreneurship and using a detailed case study of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, it demonstrates how party leaders can exercise their agency and drive party system change. Recent ...
War and Nationalism in South Asia: The Indian State and the Nagas
1st Edition
By Marcus Franke
October 05, 2011
This book presents and analyses the oldest sub-national war of postcolonial South Asia, between the Indian state and the Nagas of Northeast India. It offers a serious and thorough political history on the Naga region over three periods, pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial. Drawing on a wealth...
Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age
1st Edition
By Giorgio Shani
April 08, 2010
Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age examines the construction of a Sikh national identity in post-colonial India and the diaspora and explores the reasons for the failure of the movement for an independent Sikh state: Khalistan. Based on a decade of research, it is argued that the failure...
The Tibetan Government-in-Exile: Politics at Large
1st Edition
By Stephanie Roemer
April 08, 2010
This book provides a detailed account of the structure and political strategies of the Tibetan government-in exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), in northern India. Since its founding in 1959, it has been led by the 14th Dalai Lama who struggles to regain the Tibetan homeland. Based on ...
India's Nuclear Bomb and National Security
1st Edition
By Karsten Frey
April 29, 2009
India’s Nuclear Bomb and National Security gives an analytic account of the dynamics of India's nuclear build up. It puts forward a new comprehensive model, which goes beyond the classic strategic model of accepting motives of arming behaviour, and incorporates the dynamics in India’s nuclear ...
Military Control in Pakistan: The Parallel State
1st Edition
By Mazhar Aziz
April 29, 2009
This volume examines the role of the military, the most influential actor in Pakistan, and challenges conventional wisdom on the causes of political instability in this geographically important nuclear state. It rejects views that ethnic and religious cleavages and perceived economic or political ...
Political Mobilisation and Democracy in India: States of Emergency
1st Edition
By Vernon Hewitt
April 29, 2009
This book addresses the paradox of political mobilization and the failings of governance in India, with reference to the conflict between secularism and Hindu nationalism, authoritarianism and democracy. It demonstrates how the Internal Emergency of 1975 led to increased support of groups such as ...
Starvation and India’s Democracy
1st Edition
By Dan Banik
April 29, 2009
This book analyzes India’s impressive efforts in responding to sensational and easily visible disasters in contrast to the ‘silent emergency’ of drought-induced under nutrition and starvation deaths. Building on Amartya Sen’s famous claim that no famine has ever occurred in a democratic country, it...