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.
Pakistan and International Law: Dynamics of Identity and State Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Ahmad Ghouri
October 23, 2025
Pakistan and International Law: Dynamics of Identity and State Practice offers a pioneering exploration of Pakistan’s evolving relationship with international law. Framed through the lens of state identity, this volume critically examines how Pakistan, as a post-colonial and Muslim-majority state, ...
Challenge, Continuity, and Change in Pakistan
1st Edition
Edited
By Amit Ranjan, Ian Talbot
September 30, 2025
This book brings a multi-disciplinary approach to studying Pakistan’s contemporary political, social and environmental challenges. It offers insights from various disciplines to show the interconnectedness of many of Pakistan’s problems and their historical roots. The analysis includes issues of ...
The Subject of the Nation and his 'Others' in Hindi Cinema: Gender, Religious, Caste, and Ethnic Identity as Difference
1st Edition
By MK Raghavendra
September 17, 2025
This book analyses the representations of the subjects of Hindi cinema as a way of gaining insights into the hegemony of the upper-caste Hindu male in narratives of nationhood. Given that Hindi cinema has narrativised the nation after 1947, the book examines how these subjects were chosen and ...
E-Government in Bangladesh: Governance and Public Service Delivery
1st Edition
By Jannatul Ferdous
August 01, 2025
This book examines the background and impact of e-government in rural Bangladesh. Focusing on the Union Digital Centers (UDCs), established by the Union Parishad, this book analyzes how such centers influence rural communities. The UDCs were created to afford electronic access to a wide range of ...
Bollywood and the First Decade of Independence: Seven Directors in Search of a Nation
1st Edition
By Devapriya Sanyal
July 03, 2025
This book focuses on the cinema of the 1950s in India and analyzes the work of seven filmmakers from mainstream Hindi cinema and how they responded to the independent Indian nation after 1947. The selection of key filmmakers instead of cinema in general shows individual trajectories within cinema. ...
Local Governance Transformation and Citizen Engagement in Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Pranab Kumar Panday, Abdullah- Al-Maruf
June 27, 2025
Local Governance Transformation and Citizen Engagement in Bangladesh offers a thorough investigation of grassroots democratic practices and citizen engagement in local governance in the country and situates Bangladesh's experience within the larger framework of developing countries. With an eye ...
Urban Mobility Development in Northeast India: Sustainable City with Green and Inclusive Transportation
1st Edition
By Tumbenthung Y. Humtsoe
June 27, 2025
Urban Mobility Development in Northeast India theoretically and empirically explores the interrelationship between and among city, transportation, economic growth and environment to contribute towards engendering green urbanization for green growth. In a time of aggravating environmental crisis, ...
Identity, Dispossession and Resilience of the Subaltern: A Study of Marginalised Communities in Kashmir
1st Edition
By Khalid Wasim Hassan, Deepanshu Mohan, Ishfaq Ahmad Wani, Najam Us Saqib
June 06, 2025
Khalid Wasim Hassan, Deepanshu Mohan, Ishfaq Ahmad Wani and Najam Us Saqib examine the processes of marginality and ‘othering’ which the subaltern groups in Kashmir face due to their attribution to a particular social caste, ethnicity, language or status of their citizenship. They further explore ...
Political and Social Change in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas: Understanding Pashtun Youth
1st Edition
By Naveed Ahmad Shinwari
May 27, 2025
This book analyses agency and place of youth within the Pashtun tribal social order in Pakistan. It looks at Pashtun youth as a separate social category, analysing their changing trends of political leadership in Pakistan's former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Presenting an in-depth ...
Fifty Years of Bangladesh: Economy, Politics, Society and Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Rounaq Jahan, Rehman Sobhan
May 06, 2025
Fifty Years of Bangladesh portrays the multi-faceted dimensions of Bangladesh’s development journey, its economic and social transformation and political and cultural contestations. The book presents new empirical data supplemented with critical analysis of processes, actors and actions that have ...
Public Health and Menstrual Hygiene Practices in India: Practices, Costs, and Equity Issues
1st Edition
By Smruti Bulsari, Kiran Pandya, Anil Gumber
April 14, 2025
This book examines the equity issues regarding practices of menstrual hygiene and affordability of menstrual products by the lower socioeconomic class in India. By discussing a novel and detailed methodology of estimating the cost of menstrual hygiene, the authors identify various components of ...
Everyday State and Development in Northeast India
1st Edition
By Biswaranjan Tripura
February 19, 2025
This book examines the everyday state from the perspective of the lived experiences of peripheralized Indigenous tribal peoples in contemporary Tripura, Northeast India. Building on discussions in the anthropology of the state and development literature and based on rich ethnography data, this book...