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.
Minority Governments in India: The Puzzle of Elusive Majorities
1st Edition
By Csaba Nikolenyi
March 28, 2012
India's national parliamentary elections typically result in the election of majority parliaments and the formation of a single-party majority government. However, India’s national party system has changed beyond recognition since the parliamentary elections of 1989. The Congress Party has lost its...
NGOs in India: The challenges of women's empowerment and accountability
1st Edition
By Patrick Kilby
March 21, 2012
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. By ...
Regionalism in South Asia: Negotiating Cooperation, Institutional Structures
1st Edition
By Kishore C. Dash
March 21, 2012
The dramatic surge in regional integration schemes over the past two decades has been one of the most important developments in world politics. Virtually all countries are now members of at least one regional grouping. South Asia is no exception to this trend. In December 1985, seven South Asian ...
Culture and the Environment in the Himalaya
1st Edition
Edited
By Arjun Guneratne
March 02, 2012
This book is concerned with human-environment relations in the Himalaya. It explores how different populations and communities in the region understand or conceive of the concept of environment, how their concepts vary across lines of gender, class, age, status, and what this implies for policy ...
Economic and Human Development in Contemporary India: Cronyism and Fragility
1st Edition
By Debdas Banerjee
March 02, 2012
This book deals with issues in economic development in India. It highlights those factors that are indicative of India’s emergence in the global economy yet indicates negative "trickle down" effects, such as malnutrition, poverty, bonded labourers, high adult unemployment and the widespread use of ...
Himalayan Frontiers of India: Historical, Geo-Political and Strategic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Warikoo
February 21, 2012
The Himalaya, which is a great natural frontier for India, symbolises India’s spiritual and national consciousness. The Himalayan region displays wide diversity of cultural patterns, languages, ethnic identities and religious practices. Along the Himalayas converge the boundaries of South and ...
Maoism in India: Reincarnation of Ultra-Left Wing Extremism in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By Bidyut Chakrabarty, Rajat Kumar Kujur
February 21, 2012
The rise of Maoism as one of the organized political movement in India is the outcome of a historical situation. Both colonialism and the failure of the Indian state to implement land reforms more stringently in the aftermath of independence resulted in terrible sufferings of the marginalized, land...
India’s Energy Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Ligia Noronha, Anant Sudarshan
October 06, 2011
This book explores the multifaceted aspects of India’s energy security concerns. Bringing together a set of opinions and analysis from experts and policymakers, it sheds light on the context of India’s energy insecurity and explores its various dimensions, its nature and extent. Contributors ...
Labor, Democratization and Development in India and Pakistan
1st Edition
By Christopher Candland
October 06, 2011
In this first comparative study of organized labor in India and Pakistan, the author analyses the impact and role of organized labor in democratization and development. The study provides a unique comparative history of Indian and Pakistani labor politics. It begins in the early twentieth century, ...
The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Nepal: Democracy in the Margins
1st Edition
By Susan I. Hangen
October 06, 2011
The relationship between ethnic politics and democracy presents a paradox for scholars and policy makers: ethnic politics frequently emerge in new democracies, and yet are often presumed to threaten these new democracies. As ethnic politics is becoming increasingly central to Nepali politics, this ...
Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: Ethnic and Regional Dimensions
1st Edition
Edited
By Dennis B. McGilvray, Michele R. Gamburd
September 14, 2011
The Indian Ocean Tsunami, which devastated 70 percent of Sri Lanka’s coastline and killed an estimated 35,000 people, was remarkable both for the magnitude of the disaster and for the unprecedented scale of the relief and recovery operations mounted by national and international agencies. The ...
Bengali Cinema: 'An Other Nation'
1st Edition
By Sharmistha Gooptu
May 13, 2011
Covering the years spanning cinema’s emergence as a popular form in Bengal in the first half of the twentieth century, this book examines the main genres and trends produced by this cinema, and leads up to Bengali cinema’s last phase of transition in the 1980s. Arguing that Bengali cinema has been ...