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.
Terrorism and the US Drone Attacks in Pakistan: Killing First
1st Edition
By Imdad Ullah
September 26, 2022
This book analyses the US drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan to assess whether the ‘pre-emptive’ use of combat drones to kill terrorists is ever legally justified. Exploring the doctrinal discourse of pre-emption vis-à-vis the US drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan, the book ...
Bangladesh and International Law
1st Edition
Edited
By Mohammad Shahabuddin
August 29, 2022
This book is the first-ever comprehensive analysis of international law from Global South perspectives with specific reference to Bangladesh. The book not only sheds new light on classical international law concepts, such as statehood, citizenship, and self-determination, but also covers more ...
Kashmir and the Future of South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal
August 01, 2022
This book uses an innovative people-centered approach to the Kashmir problem to shed new light on why postcolonial partitions remain unfinished and why the wounds of postcolonial nation-state formation in South Asia continue to fester. "Kashmir" is viewed as a metaphor for the permanent internal ...
Labor, Global Supply Chains, and the Garment Industry in South Asia: Bangladesh after Rana Plaza
1st Edition
Edited
By Sanchita Saxena
June 30, 2021
This book argues that larger flaws in the global supply chain must first be addressed to change the way business is conducted to prevent factory owners from taking deadly risks to meet clients’ demands in the garment industry in Bangladesh.Using the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster as a departure point, ...
Education and Society in Bhutan: Tradition and modernisation
1st Edition
By Chelsea M. Robles
March 31, 2021
Bhutan's education sector has attracted international attention for recent reforms driven by the national development philosophy of Gross National Happiness, which aspires to balance change with the continuity of tradition. This book traces the history of education in Bhutan and reveals that, as ...
Fertility, Health and Reproductive Politics: Re-imagining Rights in India
1st Edition
By Maya Unnithan
March 31, 2021
Set in the context of the processes and practices of human reproduction and reproductive health in Northern India, this book examines the institutional exercise of power by the state, caste and kin groups. Drawing on ethnographic research over the past eighteen years among poor Hindu and ...
Political Transformations in Nepal: Dalit Inequality and Social Justice
1st Edition
By Mom Bishwakarma
September 30, 2020
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the interrelationship between long-standing caste discrimination in Nepal, its vicious circle of impact upon the Dalit groups and the changes brought by the recent political transformations. It explores the links between identity politics, Dalit struggle and...
Employment, Poverty and Rights in India
1st Edition
By Dayabati Roy
August 14, 2020
In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is ...
The Judicialization of Politics in Pakistan: A Comparative Study of Judicial Restraint and its Development in India, the US and Pakistan
1st Edition
By Waris Husain
August 14, 2020
Since 2007, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has emerged as a dominant force in Pakistani politics through its hyper-active use of judicial review, or the power to overrule Parliament’s laws and the Prime Minister’s acts. This hyper-activism was on display during the Supreme Court’s unilateral ...
Bangladesh’s Maritime Policy: Entwining Challenges
1st Edition
By Abul Kalam
June 30, 2020
Following successive international legal verdicts, Bangladesh is now an accredited maritime state. Possessing a spacious territorial sea and an extended continental shelf, with a maritime zone almost equalling its land borders, a ‘window of opportunity’ has opened for the country to realise its ...
Contemporary Literature from Northeast India: Deathworlds, Terror and Survival
1st Edition
By Amit Baishya
June 30, 2020
The Northeast Indian borderlands, a cultural crossroads between South, Southeast and East Asia, constitute an important post-colonial exception to the narratives of nation, troubling the common perception of India as an ostensibly liberal regime. This book is the first to consider the ...
Dalits, Subalternity and Social Change in India
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashok K. Pankaj, Ajit K. Pandey
June 30, 2020
The linguistic origin of the term Dalit is Marathi, and pre-dates the militant-intellectual Dalit Panthers movement of the 1970s. It was not in popular use till the last quarter of the 20th century, the origin of the term Dalit, although in the 1930s, it was used as Marathi-Hindi translation of the...