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.
Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India: Perspectives from a Feminist Ethnographic Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Deepanshu Mohan, Sakshi Chindaliya, Ashika Thomas
August 01, 2024
Mohan, Chindaliya, and Thomas offer an ethnographic critique of modern, neoliberal India from the perspective of studying the daily lives-livelihoods of marginalised, unsecured, informal vulnerable communities residing in the urban, peri-urban spaces across the nation. With case studies ranging ...
Gender Responsive Budgeting in South Asia: Experience of Bangladeshi Local Government
1st Edition
By Pranab Kumar Panday, Shuvra Chowdhury
January 29, 2024
This book analyzes the practice of local-level participatory planning and budgeting and its impact on gender responsive budgeting (GRB) in Bangladesh. The book offers a conceptual framework that brings into focus the contribution of successful participatory budgeting practice to ensure GRB – the ...
Reading Jhumpa Lahiri: Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora
1st Edition
By Nilanjana Chatterjee
January 29, 2024
This book is an innovative and rigorous study of Jhumpa Lahiri's Indian American female characters' lived and imagined diasporic house space, using domesticity and the house as an analytical tool to explore their hidden domestic spaces. The book explores how the house as a spatial construct, ...
Socio-Cultural Insights of Childbirth in South Asia: Stories of Women in the Himalayas
1st Edition
By Sabitra Kaphle
January 29, 2024
This book analyses the significant socio-cultural factors impacting childbirth experiences of women living in remote and complex social settings. This book challenges the notion that childbirth is a universal biological event which women experience in their reproductive lives and provides an ...
The Geopolitics of Energy in South Asia: Energy Security of Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Chowdhury Ishrak Ahmed Siddiky
January 29, 2024
This book examines the relation between energy and politics in South Asia and explores the geopolitics surrounding energy security in the region. Analyzing energy security and the scramble for resources in South Asia, the book highlights the important role of energy in light of the rapid economic ...
Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema: The Women in Satyajit Ray’s Films
1st Edition
By Devapriya Sanyal
September 25, 2023
This book analyses the role of women in the films of one of the leading filmmakers of the ‘Third World’ in the 1950s, Satyajit Ray, a national icon in filmmaking in India. The book explores the portrayal of women in the context of the creation of national culture after India became independent. ...
Nationalism in India: Texts and Contexts
1st Edition
Edited
By Debajyoti Biswas, John Charles Ryan
September 25, 2023
This book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on nationalism in India and examines the ways in which literary-textual representations intervene in debates regarding Hindu, Muslim and other forms of Indian nationalism. The book interrogates questions of nationalism and nationhood in relation to ...
Inside Afghanistan: Political Networks, Informal Order, and State Disruption
1st Edition
By Timor Sharan
May 31, 2023
This book maps out how political networks and centres of power, engaged in patronage, corruption, and illegality, effectively constituted the Afghan state, often with the complicity of the U.S.-led military intervention and the internationally directed statebuilding project. It argues that politics...
Transdisciplinary Ethnography in India: Women in the Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosa Maria Perez, Lina M. Fruzzetti
May 31, 2023
This book familiarises readers with a new way to treat the subject of gender, foregrounding the real voices of women, their experiences doing ethnographic work, and their courage in sharing their stories publicly for the first time in the context of India. A useful companion to more theory-based ...
Ethnic Inequality in the Northeastern Indian Borderlands: Social Structures and Symbolic Violence
1st Edition
By Anita Lama
January 09, 2023
Ethnic Inequality in the Northeastern Indian Borderlands analyses the relationship between symbolic violence, inequality and ethnicity, and addresses the question of unequal integration of small ethnic groups into state structures by using the Limbus of the Northeastern Indian borderlands as a case...
Globalising Everyday Consumption in India: History and Ethnography
1st Edition
Edited
By Bhaswati Bhattacharya, Henrike Donner
January 09, 2023
This book brings together historical and ethnographic perspectives on Indian consumer identities. Through an in-depth analysis of local, regional, and national histories of marketing, regulatory bodies, public and domestic practices, this interdisciplinary volume charts the emergence of Indian ...
The Bangladesh Garment Industry and the Global Supply Chain: Choices and Constraints of Management
1st Edition
By Shahidur Rahman
January 09, 2023
This book analyzes the choices and constraints of management within the Bangladesh garment industry and how management negotiates these challenges to ensure the global garment supply chain is sustainable. Exploring the international South Asian garment industry and using middle management and the ...