Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics
About the Book Series
This series is concerned with recent political developments in the region. It will have a range of different approaches and include both single authored monographs and edited volumes covering issues such as international relations, foreign intervention, security, democracy, political economy, ideology and public policy.
Violence and Resistance in Pakistan: Spectral States, Fragmented Borderlands, and Women’s Agency
1st Edition
By Faryal Leghari
October 01, 2025
This book examines violence and political developments in the western borderland communities of Pakistan, a postcolonial militarist state in the Global South, through the lens of gendered experiences of insecurity. It provides a fresh perspective on comprehending the perception and experience of ...
Nepal’s Federalism and the Pursuit of Deliberative Democracy
1st Edition
By Vishnu Kumari Tandon
August 29, 2025
This book identifies the factors that either encourage or discourage participation and deliberation, thereby demonstrating the potential and reality of deliberative democracy in Nepal at the local level. Focusing on the local level planning process in two municipalities, Buddhabhumi and ...
Authoritarian Populism and Bovine Political Economy in Modi’s India
1st Edition
By Jostein Jakobsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen
June 27, 2025
Authoritarian Populism and Bovine Political Economy in Modi’s India analyses how the twin forces of Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism unfold in India’s bovine economy, revealing their often-devastating material and economic impact on the country’s poor. This book is a rare, in-depth study of ...
Administration in India: Challenges and Innovations
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Iva Ashish Srivastava
April 14, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the administration in India from independence to date. It examines the major transformation in the administrative service initiated by the ‘Minimum Government and Maximum Governance’ initiative of the Government of India in 2014. In spite of enormous ...
Security of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): Counterinsurgency in Balochistan
1st Edition
By Khurram Siddiqui
April 14, 2025
This book analyses the strategic and economic significance of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), with a particular focus on the region of Balochistan. Given the history of multiple insurgencies that the Pakistani Military has confronted in Balochistan, the book examines the region’s ...
US-India Partnership in the Indo-Pacific: Implications for China
1st Edition
By Tayyaba Jaffery
March 31, 2025
This book discusses the partnership between the US and India in the Indo-Pacific region, which also serves as an engine for the Quad alliance of the US, India, Japan, and Australia. It investigates the multilateral efforts taken by the Quad and its effects on changing, reforming, or establishing a ...
Germany and Pakistan: Past, Present, Future
1st Edition
By Rajendra K. Jain
February 19, 2025
This book explores Germany’s political, economic, defence, nuclear and cultural relations as well as defence cooperation with and arms transfers to Pakistan from 1949 to the present day. Pakistan shares a multidimensional relationship with the Federal Republic of Germany, which is its largest ...
South Asia from the Margins: Transformations in the Political Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Asad ur Rehman, Muhammad Shoaib Pervez
February 19, 2025
This edited volume brings together a group of scholars examining the effects of social change on the politics in South Asia. It cobbles an inductive analytical framework of South Asian margins to comparatively study the political transformations across the region. This book envisages politics ...
Insurgency in India's Northeast: Identity Formation, Postcolonial Nation/State-Building, and Secessionist Resistance
1st Edition
By Jugdep Chima, Pahi Saikia
December 18, 2024
Insurgency in India’s Northeast provides a systematic analysis of every major secessionist group and insurgency in the region within a unified and original explanatory framework, focusing primarily on the postcolonial period. This book presents a parsimonious analytic narrative involving a rich ...
Politics of Socio-Spatial Transformation in Pakistan: Leaders and Constituents in Punjab
1st Edition
By Asad Rehman
December 18, 2024
Politics of Socio-Spatial Transformation in Pakistan analyses the relationship between socio-spatial transformation, styles of leadership and nature of constituents in Pakistan. It examines the way social change influences politics and leadership in its most populated province. Offering a unique ...
India and Central Asia in the Post-Cold War Era: Security, Economic and Socio-Cultural Dimensions
1st Edition
By Saroj Kumar Aryal
November 29, 2024
This book analyses the evolution of India’s foreign policy towards Central Asia after the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the development of India’s foreign policy towards Central Asia between 1991 and 2020, this book investigates the explanatory and intervening variables of the policy towards the...
Punjab River Waters Dispute in South Asia: Historical Legacies, Political Competition, and Peasant Interests
1st Edition
By Kuldip Singh
October 31, 2024
This book examines the Punjab river waters controversy in South Asia, a major defining feature of Punjab politics. It also studies the difficult situation relating to the waters at the intersectionality of Punjab, the rural Sikh community, the neighboring state of Haryana, and the Indian ...