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.
Scholar Intellectuals in Early Modern India: Discipline, Sect, Lineage and Community
1st Edition
Edited
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...
Gender and Masculinities: Histories, Texts and Practices in India and Sri Lanka
1st Edition
Edited
By Assa Doron, Alex Broom
July 22, 2015
Gender persists as a key site of social inequality globally, and within contemporary south Asian contexts, the cultural practices which make up ‘masculinities’ remain vital for understanding everyday life and social relations. Yet masculinities, and their discontents, are an understudied and often ...
Minority Nationalisms in South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Tanweer Fazal
November 10, 2014
South Asia is the theatre of myriad experimentations with nationalisms of various kinds - religious, linguistic, religio-linguistic, composite, plural and exclusivist. In all the region’s major states, officially promulgated nationalism at various times has been fiercely contested by minority ...
Religious Cultures in Early Modern India: New Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Rosalind O'Hanlon, David Washbrook
June 19, 2014
Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious ...
South Asian Transnationalisms: Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Babli Sinha
April 22, 2014
South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and political exchanges between artists and intellectuals of South Asia with counterparts in the United ...
Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia: Critical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Assa Doron, Alex Broom
May 31, 2013
Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides ...
Gujarat Beyond Gandhi: Identity, Society and Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Nalin Mehta, Mona G. Mehta
December 05, 2012
The birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and the land that produced Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, Gujarat has been at the centre-stage of South Asia’s political iconography for more than a century. As Gujarat, created as a separate state in 1960, celebrates its golden jubilee this ...