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.
Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka: Caught in the Peace Trap?
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Goodhand, Benedikt Korf, Jonathan Spencer
November 08, 2013
The period between 2001 and 2006 saw the rise and fall of an internationally supported effort to bring a protracted violent conflict in Sri Lanka to a peaceful resolution. A ceasefire agreement, signed in February 2002, was followed by six rounds of peace talks, but growing political violence, ...
The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel J. Rycroft, Sangeeta Dasgupta
November 08, 2013
Since the 1990s, the Indigenous movement worldwide has become increasingly relevant to research in India, re-shaping the terms of engagement with Adivasi (Indigenous/tribal) peoples and their pasts. This book responds to the growing need for an inter-disciplinary re-assessment of Tribal studies in ...
Pakistan's Stability Paradox: Domestic, Regional and International Dimensions
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashutosh Misra, Michael E. Clarke
October 25, 2013
Pakistan, with the second largest Muslim population in the world, is a crucial country in the international system. It is an ally of the United States in the global ‘war on terror’ but is also regarded as a major bastion of some of the most active jihadist organisations. This book highlights and ...
Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia
1st Edition
By Bina D'Costa
June 07, 2013
This book gives a detailed political analysis of nationbuilding processes and how these are closely linked to statebuilding and to issues of war crime, gender and sexuality, and marginalization of minority groups. With a focus on the Indian subcontinent, the author demonstrates how the state ...
The Culturalization of Caste in India: Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age
1st Edition
By Balmurli Natrajan
May 31, 2013
In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions of how caste survives the ...
Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation
1st Edition
By Megan Adamson Sijapati
May 07, 2013
This book draws on extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal to examine the local and global factors that shape contemporary Muslim identity and the emerging Islamic revival movement based in the Kathmandu valley. Nepal's Muslims are active participants in the larger global movement of Sunni ...
Mohajir Militancy in Pakistan: Violence and Transformation in the Karachi Conflict
1st Edition
By Nichola Khan
July 20, 2012
Synthesizing political, anthropological and psychological perspectives, this book addresses the everyday causes and appeal of long-term involvement in extreme political violence in urban Pakistan. Taking Pakistan’s ethno nationalist Mohajir party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) as a case study,...
The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Revolution in the Twenty-first Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Mahendra Lawoti, Anup Kumar Pahari
April 30, 2012
The book deals with the dynamics and growth of a violent 21st century communist rebellion initiated in Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) – CPN(M). It contextualizes and explains why and how a violent Maoist insurgency grew in Nepal after the end of the Cold War, in contrast to the ...
The State in India after Liberalization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Akhil Gupta, Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan
April 30, 2012
This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. It is clear that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in dramatic increases in productivity and ...
Development, Democracy and the State: Critiquing the Kerala Model of Development
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Ravi Raman
April 10, 2012
The Indian state of Kerala is known for its high social model of development and social democratic governance. This book presents the most comprehensive analysis of the Kerala Model of Social Development to date. The model has often been identified as one worth emulating because it is seen to have ...
Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India
1st Edition
By Ravi Raman
March 29, 2012
This book presents a historical account of plantations in India in the context of the modern world economy. It brings history up to the present, thereby showing how history can assist in explaining contemporary conditions and trends. The author focuses on labour and economic development problems ...
Water Policy Processes in India: Discourses of Power and Resistance
1st Edition
By Vandana Asthana
March 29, 2012
The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically-liberalizing India. Since the 1990s, large social groups across India's diverse and disparate peoples have been re-negotiating their cultural relationships with each other as to whether they support or oppose ...