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.
Health Communication and Sexual Health in India: Interpreting HIV and AIDS messages
1st Edition
By Ravindra Kumar Vemula
June 30, 2020
Over the past few years, ever since the advent of HIV and AIDS, there has been increasing discussion of the concept of sexual health. This upsurge is especially noticeable not only in the field of health education and promotion but also in academic sources. The recent discourse on sexual health is ...
Identity and Marginality in India: Settlement Experience of Afghan Migrants
1st Edition
By Anwesha Ghosh
June 30, 2020
Decades of conflict and war have forced millions of men, women and children to flee from their homes and seek refuge in other parts of the country or in foreign lands - Afghanistan is one such country.This book is a study of the displaced Afghan migrant population in India, in particular the ...
Land-Water Management and Sustainability in Bangladesh: Indigenous practices in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
1st Edition
By Ranjan Datta
June 30, 2020
Indigenous sustainability and environmental management cannot be understood apart from a community, its traditions, and ways of practices. Interest in Indigenous environmental sustainability has grown steadily in past years, reflecting traditional cultural perspectives about the environment and ...
New Perspectives on India and Turkey: Connections and Debates
1st Edition
Edited
By Smita Jassal, Halil Turan
June 30, 2020
India and Turkey, Asia Minor and the Subcontinent of Hindustan, and the Ottomans and Mughals have had shared histories of contact, engagement, and dialogue over the centuries. Much of northern India was under the control of rulers from Central Asia since at least the thirteenth century. Startling ...
The Rule of Law in Developing Countries: The Case of Bangladesh
1st Edition
Edited
By Chowdhury Ishrak Ahmed Siddiky
December 17, 2019
Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries in the world and second in South Asia, is known for its natural disasters, floods and political violence. However, the country plans to become a middle-income country by 2020 due to rapid economic growth led by strong and vibrant garments...
Culture, Health and Development in South Asia: Arsenic Poisoning in Bangladesh
1st Edition
By M. Islam
December 12, 2019
Recently, mass arsenic poisoning of groundwater has emerged as a disastrous public health concern in Bangladesh. Apart from hundreds of deaths that have already been reported, 85 million people are estimated to be at high risk of developing deadly arsenicosis symptoms. The severity and extent of ...
Death and Dying in India: Ageing and end-of-life care of the elderly
1st Edition
By Suhita Chopra Chatterjee, Jaydeep Sengupta
December 12, 2019
Most aged in India are experiencing a highly protracted death in hospitals, entangled in tubes and machines. Such ‘medicalised death’ entails huge psychological, social and financial costs for both patients and their caregivers. There are also many who are dying in abject neglect. However, ...
Documentary Film in India: An Anthropological History
1st Edition
By Giulia Battaglia
December 12, 2019
This book maps a hundred years of documentary film practices in India. It demonstrates that in order to study the development of a film practice, it is necessary to go beyond the classic analysis of films and filmmakers and focus on the discourses created around and about the practice in question. ...
India�s Approach to Development Cooperation
1st Edition
Edited
By Sachin Chaturvedi, Anthea Mulakala
December 12, 2019
India is emerging as a key player in the development cooperation arena, not only because of the increasing volume and reach of its south-south cooperation but more so because of its leadership and advocacy for the development of a distinctly southern development discourse and knowledge generation. ...
Media as Politics in South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Sahana Udupa, Stephen McDowell
December 12, 2019
The dramatic expansion of the media and communications sector since the 1990s has brought South Asia on the global scene as a major center for media production and consumption. This book is the first overview of media expansion and its political ramifications in South Asia during these years of ...
Migration of Labour in India: The squatter settlements of Delhi
1st Edition
By Himmat Ratnoo
December 12, 2019
Migration – both within and between countries – is increasingly one of the world's most important policy issues. The faster the Indian economy grows, the larger will be the geographical redistribution of the workforce from localities of low to those of high employment growth. Thus, territorial ...
Popular Hindi Cinema: Aesthetic Formations of the Seen and Unseen
1st Edition
By Ronie Parciack
December 12, 2019
The popular Hindi film industry is the largest in India and the most conspicuous film industry in the non-Western world. This book analyses the pivotal visual and narrative conventions employed in popular Hindi films through the combined prism of film studies and classical Indian philosophy and ...