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.
Education and Inequality in India: A Classroom View
1st Edition
By Manabi Majumdar, Jos Mooij
July 22, 2015
Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India. This book looks at the reproduction of social inequalities within the educational system in India, and how this is contested in different ways. It examines whether the concept of `education for all’ is just a ...
Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India: From Warfare to Welfare?
1st Edition
By Mona Bhan
July 16, 2015
The rhetoric of armed social welfare has become prominent in military and counterinsurgency circuits with profound consequences for the meanings of democracy, citizenship, and humanitarianism in conflict zones. By focusing on the border district of Kargil, the site of India and Pakistan’s fourth ...
The Labour Movement in the Global South: Trade Unions in Sri Lanka
1st Edition
By S. Janaka Biyanwila
May 21, 2015
Based on extensive original research, this book examines the challenges confronting trade unions in the global South, by focusing on trade union struggles in Sri Lanka under neo-liberal globalisation. It centres on movement politics of unions; explains union capacities to mobilise workers as a part...
National Identities in Pakistan: The 1971 war in contemporary Pakistani fiction
1st Edition
By Cara Cilano
February 27, 2015
In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the remaining four western provinces to comprise a truncated Pakistan. This book examines how literature by those who remained Pakistanis acts as a ...
Bollywood Travels: Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema
1st Edition
By Rajinder Dudrah
September 11, 2014
Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the popular Hindi cinema of India. It analyses and discusses a range of key contemporary ...
Microcredit and Women's Empowerment: A Case Study of Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Aminul Faraizi, Taskinur Rahman, Jim McAllister
September 11, 2014
Using a case study of Bangladesh, and based on a long term participatory observation method, this book investigates claims of the success of microcredit, as well as the critiques of it, in the context of women’s empowerment. It confronts the distinction between women’s increasing wealth as a ...
Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Lau, Ana Cristina Mendes
September 11, 2014
Orientalism refers to the imitation of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West, and was devised in order to have authority over the Orient. The concept of Re-Orientalism maintains the divide between the Orient and the West. However, where Orientalism is based on how the West constructs the East, ...
The Multiplex in India: A Cultural Economy of Urban Leisure
1st Edition
By Adrian Athique, Douglas Hill
August 12, 2014
During the decade of its existence in India, the multiplex cinema has been very much a sign of the times – both a symptom and a symbol of new social values. Indicative of a consistent push to create a ‘globalised’ consuming middle class and a new urban environment, multiplex theatres have thus ...
Explaining Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: Escaping India
1st Edition
By Aparna Pande
March 27, 2014
Pakistan has over the decades become a hotbed for the terrorist ideology often referred to as Jihadism. This book investigates the underlying principles of Pakistan’s foreign policy from 1947 until the present day, and explains the rise of Jihadism as an offshoot of Pakistan’s security concerns. ...
South Asia in the New World Order: The Role of Regional Cooperation
1st Edition
By Shahid Javed Burki
March 19, 2014
Rapid changes have taken place in the structure of the global economy, and this book looks at how South Asia can take advantage of these changes. The author argues that the developing global economy will be more complex than originally thought, that instead of a bipolar model with two countries, ...
Being Middle-class in India: A Way of Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Henrike Donner
November 08, 2013
Hailed as the beneficiary, driving force and result of globalisation, India’s middle-class is puzzling in its diversity, as a multitude of traditions, social formations and political constellations manifest contribute to this project. This book looks at Indian middle-class lifestyles through a ...
Building Bangalore: Architecture and urban transformation in India’s Silicon Valley
1st Edition
By John Stallmeyer
November 08, 2013
Examining spatial transformations in Bangalore, one of India's fastest growing cities, this book highlights the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) development on the city. Focusing on the production of urban space and the processes that inform such production, the author ...