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.
Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia: Craftspeople and Performers
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Morcom, Neelam Raina
December 18, 2024
This book explores the crafts and performing arts of South Asia through a focus on labour and livelihood. It brings to light little-researched angles of social and political economies of culture and the ways in which they have shifted and changed in different historical eras and different political...
Marginalised Groups in India: Historiography, Politics, and Policies
1st Edition
Edited
By Kunal Debnath, Souvik Chatterjee
November 18, 2024
This book intersects marginality, politics, and policies by focusing on the narratives of selective marginalised groups within India. Encouraging inclusive government policies that consider the diverse identities of individuals and groups within India, this book is a systematic documentation of the...
Civil Society and Pakistan's Economy: Robber Barons and Meritocracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Fayyaz Baqir
October 09, 2024
This book analyses the paradoxes of Pakistan’s economy, meritocratic domestic policy, and the role of the state and the civil society. It argues that the transition in the county’s foreign policy from geo-politics to geo-economic depends on a fundamental domestic policy transition from kleptocracy ...
Foreign Aid and Bangladesh: Donor Relations and Realpolitik
1st Edition
By Mohammad Mizanur Rahman
August 28, 2024
Foreign Aid and Bangladesh offers a rich combination of aid history – from the evolution of aid as a global agenda after WWII to the rise of different multilateral, bilateral, and emerging donors and their policy shifts – and a nuanced perspective of aid partnerships at the country level. ...
Bangladesh’s Quest for Inclusive Development: Challenges and Pathways
1st Edition
By Mustafa K. Mujeri, Neaz Mujeri
August 26, 2024
The book provides a comprehensive conceptual understanding covering major challenges and pathways to progressively promote inclusive development in Bangladesh. Since independence in 1971, Bangladesh has achieved significant economic growth and social progress, but the benefits have not been shared...
Covid-19 in India, Disease, Health and Culture: Can Wellness be Far Behind?
1st Edition
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By Anindita Chatterjee, Nilanjana Chatterjee
August 26, 2024
This book is a cultural exploration of health and wellness, with a focus on impacts of Covid-19 on the population of India. The chapters in this book present original research, systematic reviews, theoretical and conceptual frameworks, encompassing multidisciplinary, inter- and intra-disciplinary...
Healthcare in Post-Independence India: Kolkata and the Crisis of Private Healthcare Services
1st Edition
By Amrita Bagchi
August 26, 2024
This book analyses the development of private healthcare in post-Independence Kolkata, India, and the rapid expansion of private nursing homes and hospitals from a historical and sociological perspective. It offers an examination of the changing pattern of the entire health care sector, which over ...
Identity, Nationhood and Bangladesh Independent Cinema
1st Edition
By Fahmidul Haq, Brian Shoesmith
August 26, 2024
This book analyses how independent filmmakers from Bangladesh have represented national identity in their films. The focus of this book is on independent and art house filmmakers and how cinema plays a vital role in constructing national and cultural identity. The authors examine post-2000 films ...
Indian Literatures in Diaspora
1st Edition
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By Sireesha Telugu
August 26, 2024
This book analyses diasporic literatures written in Indian languages written by authors living outside their homeland and contextualize the understanding of migration and migrant identities. Examining diasporic literature produced in Bengali, Hindi, Malayalam, Indian Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Marathi,...
Media Discourse in Contemporary India: A Study of Television News
1st Edition
By Sudeshna Devi
August 26, 2024
This book examines the historical trajectory of the growth of the television news and critically analyzes the role of private television news in framing the nature of public discourse in contemporary India. Set in the context of a transformed media landscape, the book attempts to understand and ...
Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka: Counter-history as War after the Tamil Tigers
1st Edition
By A.R. Rajah
August 26, 2024
This book examines Tamil nationalism in Sri Lanka and provides insights on how Tamil nationalism has survived the destruction of the Tamil Tigers after May 2009 and continues to thrive, despite the absence of a charismatic leadership to lead it or a centralised organisation to mobilise the Tamils ...
Empowering Marginalised Women in Remote Indian Villages: An Impact Study
1st Edition
By Udoy Saikia, Jim Chalmers, Dency Michael, Janice Orrell
August 13, 2024
Saikia, Chalmers, Michael and Orrell explore the impact of social education on gender inequalities in rural Tamil Nadu where highland women’s lives are damaged by discrimination, marginalisation and deprivation. Social education refers to agent-oriented learning experiences focused on power ...