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.
Water, Democracy and Neoliberalism in India: The Power to Reform
1st Edition
By Vicky Walters
October 12, 2017
Since the early 1990s, the achievement of ‘good governance’ has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development. This book presents a critical challenge to the contemporary development paradigm of good governance. Based on original ethnographic fieldwork on urban water ...
Civil Society and Democratization in India: Institutions, Ideologies and Interests
1st Edition
By Sarbeswar Sahoo
June 16, 2017
Developing a distinctive theoretical framework on civil society, this book examines how Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) contribute towards democratization in India and what conditions facilitate or inhibit their contribution. It assesses three different kinds of politics within civil society ...
Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English: Idea, Nation, State
1st Edition
By Cara Cilano
June 16, 2017
Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and ...
Kashmir’s Right to Secede: A Critical Examination of Contemporary Theories of Secession
1st Edition
By Matthew J. Webb
June 16, 2017
A separatist conflict has been ongoing in India-administered Kashmir since 1989. Focusing on this region, this book critiques the existing normative theories of secession, and offers a comprehensive examination of the right of sub-groups to secede. The book looks at the different accounts of the ...
Regional Economic Integration in South Asia: Trapped in Conflict?
1st Edition
By Amita Batra
June 16, 2017
South Asia today is among the most unstable regions in the world, riddled by both intra- and inter-state conflict. This book presents a comprehensive technical analysis of the trade–conflict relationship within the region, and explores how South Asia demonstrates underperformance of its potential ...
Ritual and Recovery in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka
1st Edition
By Jane Derges
June 16, 2017
Following over twenty years of war, Sri Lanka’s longest cease-fire (2002-2006) provided a final opportunity for an inclusive peace settlement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). However, hostilities resumed with ever increasing desperation and ferocity...
Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka: The Trouser Under the Cloth
1st Edition
By Anoma Pieris
May 31, 2017
The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the ...
Religious Freedom in India: Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion
1st Edition
By Goldie Osuri
May 31, 2017
Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India’s religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious ...
Development–induced Displacement, Rehabilitation and Resettlement in India: Current Issues and Challenges
1st Edition
Edited
By Sakarama Somayaji, Smrithi Talwar
May 18, 2017
Compulsory land acquisition and involuntary displacement of communities for a larger public purpose captures the tension of development in the modern state, with the need to balance the interests of the majority while protecting the rights of the minority. In India, informal estimates of ...
Displacement and Resettlement in India: The Human Cost of Development
1st Edition
By Hari Mathur
May 18, 2017
In the past ten years or so, displacement by development projects has gone on almost untamed under the globalization pressures to meet the demand for land from local and increasingly foreign investors. Focusing on India, this book looks at the complex issue of resettling people who are displaced ...
Enterprise Culture in Neoliberal India: Studies in Youth, Class, Work and Media
1st Edition
Edited
By Nandini Gooptu
May 18, 2017
The promotion of an enterprise culture and entrepreneurship in India in recent decades has had far-reaching implications beyond the economy, and transformed social and cultural attitudes and conduct. This book brings together pioneering research on the nature of India’s enterprise culture, covering...
Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka: Up-country Tamil Identity Politics
1st Edition
By Daniel Bass
May 18, 2017
Focusing on notions of diaspora, identity and agency, this book examines ethnicity in war-torn Sri Lanka. It highlights the historical development and negotiation of a new identification of Up-country Tamil amidst Sri Lanka’s violent ethnic politics. Over the past thirty years, Up-country (Indian...