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Routledge Series on South Asian Culture

About the Book Series

The series addresses important questions related to South Asian culture including, but not limited to, the literary, religious and visual cultures of South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. Books included cover a variety of topics and a variety of approaches. Special attention will be given to issues of globalization, diaspora, nationalism, climate change, gender, marginality, othering and identity (religious, ethnic, cultural, sexual), and the growing interest in emotions in religion, culture, literature/film. The series considers monographs and edited books by established and new scholars in the field and welcomes new proposals.

Editorial Board: Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University Chicago, USA; Nandi Bhatia, The University of Western Ontario, Canada; Tatiana Oranskaia, University of Hamburg, Germany

To submit a proposal, please contact the Routledge editor, Dorothea Schaefter: [email protected].

5 Series Titles


Muslim Identity in Hindi Cinema Poetics and Politics of Genre and Representation

Muslim Identity in Hindi Cinema: Poetics and Politics of Genre and Representation

1st Edition

By Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
February 04, 2025

This book examines the representation of Muslim identity in Hindi films by focusing on different aspects of Muslim identity - historical, cultural, and linguistic - and their realisation in cinematic form. The book assesses the changing perceptions of Muslim identity, beginning from the historical ...

The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production Signifying Colonial Trauma

The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production: Signifying Colonial Trauma

1st Edition

By Babli Sinha
November 28, 2024

The Bengal Famine and Cultural Production: Signifying Colonial Trauma analyses the various modes of representation used by Anglophone authors and artists in response to the Bengal Famine of 1943.  Official imperial narratives blamed the famine on natural disaster, war, exploitation by merchants, ...

Identity in Northeast Indian Literature Rereading Select Writings from Meghalaya

Identity in Northeast Indian Literature: Rereading Select Writings from Meghalaya

1st Edition

By Dustin Lalkulhpuia
September 19, 2024

This book provides an in-depth analysis and critical examination of the representation of ethnic, sexual, cultural, and individual identities in selected literary works by contemporary writers from Northeast India. The book explores the complex dynamics of identity construction, sexuality, ...

Regional perspectives on India's Partition Shifting the Vantage Points

Regional perspectives on India's Partition: Shifting the Vantage Points

1st Edition

Edited By Anjali Gera Roy, Nandi Bhatia
May 04, 2023

This book expands the scope of understanding of the vast, albeit uneven, experience of the 1947 Partition of India by including localities and life stories from and beyond the regions of Punjab and Bengal. Building on existing research on Partition, the chapters present and analyse the consequences...

Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions

Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions

1st Edition

Edited By Diana Dimitrova
August 01, 2022

This book analyses cultural questions related to representations of the body in South Asian traditions, human perceptions and attitudes toward the body in religious and cultural contexts, as well as the processes of interpreting notions of the body in religious and literary texts. Utilising an ...

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