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.
Religion and Modernity in the Himalaya
1st Edition
Edited
By Megan Adamson Sijapati, Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz
December 12, 2019
Religion has long been a powerful cultural, social, and political force in the Himalaya. Increased economic and cultural flows, growth in tourism, and new forms of governance and media, however, have brought significant changes to the religious traditions of the region in the twentieth and ...
Sri Lanka's Global Factory Workers: (Un) Disciplined Desires and Sexual Struggles in a Post-Colonial Society
1st Edition
By Sandya Hewamanne
December 12, 2019
In Sri Lanka, the Free Trade Zone (FTZ) employs thousands of unmarried rural women, and their migration has aroused deep anxieties over female morality and ideal conduct. This book focuses on the global factory workers based in the FTZ, and analyzes intersections of gender, class and sexuality by ...
Ethics in Governance in India
1st Edition
By Bidyut Chakrabarty
May 14, 2019
Governance and ethics are intertwined. A government functions within certain broad moral and ethical parameters, integrally linked with the sociological foundation of the polity in which it is articulated. The importance of ethics in governance has acquired a significant place in contemporary ...
The Indian Partition in Literature and Films: History, Politics, and Aesthetics
1st Edition
Edited
By Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
May 14, 2019
This book presents an examination of fictional representations, in books and films, of the 1947 Partition that led to the creation of the sovereign nation-states of India and Pakistan. While the process of representing the Partition experience through words and images began in the late 1940s, it is...
Islamic Banking in Pakistan: Shariah-Compliant Finance and the Quest to make Pakistan more Islamic
1st Edition
By Feisal Khan
February 04, 2019
Islamic Banking and Finance (IBF) has become a growing force over the past three decades, with Pakistan being one of the IBF pioneers by converting to an ‘interest-free’ banking system in 1985. However, since independence in 1947, there has been continual tension over Pakistan’s essential character...
Gender, Nation and Popular Film in India: Globalizing Muscular Nationalism
1st Edition
By Sikata Banerjee
August 23, 2018
Interpretations of manhood have unfolded in India within a middle class cultural milieu shaped by an assertive self-confidence fuelled by liberalisation, a process by which India has been integrated into the global political economy and the prominence of Hindutva or Hindu nationalist politics. ...
Islamic NGOs in Bangladesh: Development, Piety and Neoliberal governmentality
1st Edition
By Mohammad Musfequs Salehin
August 14, 2018
NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) have emerged in both a development and aid capacity in Bangladesh, providing wide-reaching public services to the country’s population living in extreme poverty. However, resistance to and limitations of NGO-led development - which in conjunction with ...
State and Nation-Building in Pakistan: Beyond Islam and Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger D. Long, Gurharpal Singh, Yunas Samad, Ian Talbot
August 14, 2018
Religion, violence, and ethnicity are all intertwined in the history of Pakistan. The entrenchment of landed interests, operationalized through violence, ethnic identity, and power through successive regimes has created a system of ‘authoritarian clientalism.’ This book offers comparative, ...
Devotional Islam in Contemporary South Asia: Shrines, Journeys and Wanderers
1st Edition
Edited
By Michel Boivin, Remy Delage
June 28, 2018
The Muslim shrine is at the crossroad of many processes involving society and culture. It is the place where a saint – often a Sufi - is buried, and it works as a main social factor, with the power of integrating or rejecting people and groups, and as a mirror reflecting the intricacies of a ...
Epigraphy and Islamic Culture: Inscriptions of the Early Muslim Rulers of Bengal (1205-1494)
1st Edition
By Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq
June 28, 2018
Architectural inscriptions are a fascinating aspect of Islamic cultural heritage because of their rich and diverse historical contents and artistic merits. These inscriptions help us understand the advent of Islam and its gradual diffusion in Bengal, which eventually resulted in a Muslim majority ...
Ethnic Subnationalist Insurgencies in South Asia: Identities, Interests and Challenges to State Authority
1st Edition
By Jugdep S. Chima
June 28, 2018
This book provides a micro-historical analysis of the emergence and contemporary dynamics of recent ethnic sub-nationalist insurgencies in South Asia. Using comparative case studies, it discusses the causes of each insurgency, analyses the trajectory and dynamics of each including attempts at ...
Political Economy of Development in India: Indigeneity in Transition in the State of Kerala
1st Edition
By Darley Kjosavik, Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam
June 28, 2018
In the Global South, indigenous people have been continuously subjected to top-down, and often violent, processes of post-colonial state and nation building. This book examines the development dilemmas of the indigenous people (adivasis) of the Indian state of Kerala. It explores the different ...