Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
About the Book Series
This books series offers a forum that will provide an integrated perspective on the field at large. It brings together research on South Asia in the humanities and social sciences, and provides scholars with a platform covering, but not restricted to, their particular fields of interest and specialization. Such an approach is critical to any expanding field of study, for the development of more informed and broader perspectives, and of more overarching theoretical conceptions.
The idea is to try to achieve a truly multidisciplinary forum for the study of South Asia under the aegis of which the established disciplines (e.g. history, politics, gender studies) and more recent fields (e.g. sport studies, sexuality studies) will enmesh with each other. A focus is also to make available to a broader readership new research on film, media, photography, medicine and the environment, which have to date remained more specialized fields of South Asian studies.
A significant concern for series is to focus across the whole of the region known as South Asia, and not simply on India, as most ‘South Asia' forums inevitably tend to do. The series is most conscious of this gap in South Asian studies and works to bring into focus more scholarship on and from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and other parts of South Asia.
Western Popular Music and Indian Modernity
1st Edition
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By Biswarup Sen
March 18, 2026
From the beginning of the colonial period, western musical forms and practices have travelled to the subcontinent, interacted with domestic sound cultures, and played a significant role in the making of Indian modernity. As the contributions in the volume show, it would be popular western styles ...
Wondrous Screens in India: Cinema Halls, Place, Public, and Cinephilia
1st Edition
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By Madhuja Mukherjee, Kaushik Bhaumik
March 18, 2026
This book brings together fifteen chapters involving extraordinary primary material, evidences, and experiences of the rapidly shrinking single-screen spaces and transforming viewing cultures in the big cities and towns across India. It emphasizes on the material history of cinema – a history of ...
The Dancing Body: Labour, Livelihood and Leisure
1st Edition
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By Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Aishika Chakraborty
October 27, 2025
This book, with its focus on the dancing body, is the first of its kind within the larger context of dance in India. The Dancing Body is a body that exists, survives, inhabits and performs in multiple space and time, by moving, laboring, migrating and straddling across geographic, ...
Between History and Literature: Essays for Dipesh Chakrabarty
1st Edition
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By Siddharth Satpathy, Girish D. Pawar
June 30, 2025
This book explores the value of bhasa literature through the lens of Dipesh Chakrabarty's scholarship, offering a nuanced perspective on his passionate engagement with literature at large and with Bengali literature, in particular. These essays, dedicated to Chakrabarty, in different ways extend ...
Popular Cinema in Bengal: Genre, Stars, Public Cultures
1st Edition
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By Madhuja Mukherjee, Kaustav Bakshi
October 14, 2024
Popular Cinema in Bengal marks a decisive turn in studies of Bengali language cinema by shifting the focus from auteur and text-based studies to exhaustive readings of the film industry. The book covers a wide range of themes and issues, including: generic tropes (like comedy and action);...
Television at Large in South Asia
1st Edition
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By Aswin Punathambekar, Shanti Kumar
October 14, 2024
This book explores the empirical and theoretical significance of understanding television as a dynamic technology, a creative industry, and a vibrant cultural form that is "at large" in South Asia. Bringing together prominent scholars who have shaped television studies in South Asia, as well as ...
Narrating Africa in South Asia
1st Edition
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By Mahmood Kooria
October 09, 2024
The coastal belts and hinterlands of East Africa and South Asia have historically shared a number of cultural traits, commodities and cosmologies circulated on the wings of the monsoon winds. The forced and voluntary migrations of Asians and Africans across the Indian Ocean littoral over several ...
Communities and Courts: Religion and Law in Modern India
1st Edition
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By Manisha Sethi
January 29, 2024
The entanglement of law and religion is reiterated on a daily basis in India. Communities and groups turn to the courts to seek positive recognition of their religious identities or sentiments, as well as a validation of their practices. Equally, courts have become the most potent site of the play ...
Children and Knowledge: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives from India
1st Edition
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By Zazie Bowen, Jessica Hinchy
June 30, 2021
Children and Knowledge sheds light on what it is to be a child in India in the contemporary moment and in history. While acknowledging the ways Indian children are situated within structures of power, this volume foregrounds innovative methodologies for conducting research into childhood and ...
Mind, Soul and Consciousness: Religion, Science and the Psy-Disciplines in Modern South Asia (With a Foreword by J.N. Mohanty)
1st Edition
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By Soumen Mukherjee, Christopher Harding
September 30, 2020
This comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia.It focuses on the burgeoning ‘psy-disciplines’ – psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy – and their links with religion, science, philosophy, and modern notions of the ...
South Asian Folklore in Transition: Crafting New Horizons
1st Edition
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By Frank J. Korom, Leah K. Lowthorp
June 30, 2020
The Indian Subcontinent has been at the centre of folklore inquiry since the 19th century, yet, while much attention was paid to India by early scholars, folkloristic interest in the region waned over time until it virtually disappeared from the research agendas of scholars working in the ...
Scholar Intellectuals in Early Modern India: Discipline, Sect, Lineage and Community
1st Edition
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By Rosalind O'Hanlon, Christopher Minkowski, Anand Venkatkrishnan
April 13, 2017
In recent years, scholars from a wide range of disciplines have examined the revival in intellectual and literary cultures that took place during India’s ‘early modern’ centuries. This was both a revival as well as a period of intense disputation and critical engagement. It took in the relationship...