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.
The Politics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Bangladesh
1st Edition
Edited
By Saimum Parvez, Mohammad Sajjadur Rahman
August 26, 2024
This book examines contemporary issues and debates of terrorism in Bangladesh, including national and transnational terrorist outfits operating within the country, their narratives and counternarratives, ideologues, women and the youth, media representation, counterterrorism laws, and challenges. ...
The Rise and Decline of the Insurgency in Pakistan’s FATA
1st Edition
By Shahzad Akhtar
August 26, 2024
This book analyzes the emergence, rise, and decline of insurgency by the Pakistani Taliban in Pakistan’s North-Western region, also known as Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). It provides a detailed account of the rise and decline of the FATA insurgency and also examines aftereffects of ...
Islam and Democracy in the Maldives: Interrogating Reformist Islam’s Role in Politics
1st Edition
By Azim Zahir
September 25, 2023
This book examines Islam’s relationship to democratization in the Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives. It explores how and why an electoral democracy based in a constitution that has many liberal features but also Islam-based limitations, especially lack of religious freedom, emerged in the country...
Political Theory and South Asian Counter-Narratives
1st Edition
By Maidul Islam
September 25, 2023
This book evaluates the promise of human progress and secularism in grand political narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, comparing counter-narratives of South Asia within the context of a fast-changing twenty-first century. The book embraces a broad range of sources and theoretical...
Electoral Politics and Hindu Nationalism in India: The Bharatiya Jana Sangh, 1951–1971
1st Edition
By Koushiki Dasgupta
January 21, 2023
This book analyses the rise and growth of the Hindu nationalist party Bharatiya Jana Sangh in post independent India, tracking the electoral journey of the party from 1951 to 1971. Offering a comprehensive analysis of the party Bharatiya Jana Sangh - its origin, ideas and electoral performances in ...
Democratic Governance in Bangladesh: Dilemmas of Governing
1st Edition
By Nizam Ahmed
December 07, 2022
This book explores the role of government in the governing process of Bangladesh. It primarily focuses on the dilemmas and constraints faced by the successive democratic governments elected since the early 1990s. Bangladesh has had a new democratic beginning since the early 1990s and formally ...
Pakistan’s National Security Approach and Post-Cold War Security: Uneasy Co-existence
1st Edition
By Arshad Ali
September 26, 2022
This book analyzes the paradox that despite being a national security state, Pakistan has become even more insecure in the post-Cold War era. It provides an in-depth analysis of Pakistan’s foreign and security policies and their implications for the overall state and society. The book identifies ...
Pakistan’s Security and the India–US Strategic Partnership: Nuclear Politics and Security Competition
1st Edition
By Syed Shahid Hussain Bukhari
September 16, 2022
This book explores the relationship between the developing India–US strategic Partnership and Pakistan’s security. It assesses India and the US's areas of cooperation to show that the partnership will bring drastic changes for India’s military capabilities and modernization of its forces. The ...
Gender and Hindu Nationalism: Understanding Masculine Hegemony
1st Edition
By Prem Kumar Vijayan
August 29, 2022
This book presents an innovative approach to gender, nationalism, and the relations between them, and analyses the broader social base of Hindu nationalist organisation to understand the growth of 'Hindutva', or Hindu nationalism, in India.Arguing that Hindu nationalist thought and predilections ...
Government and NGOs in South Asia: Local Collaboration in Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Mohammad Jahangir Hossain Mojumder, Pranab Kumar Panday
August 29, 2022
This book analyses efforts of Bangladeshi government and NGOs to strengthen local governance, and identifies the challenges posed by collaboration with NGOs. Presenting a dominantly qualitative study, the analysis explores whether engagement between the Sharique project to strengthen local ...
Parliaments in South Asia: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
1st Edition
By Nizam Ahmed
August 29, 2022
This book explores the development, decline and resurgence of parliaments in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Although the three parliaments formally have a common origin and follow almost similar rules and procedures, substantial variations can be observed in their behavior. By analyzing the nature...
Hindu Nationalism in India: Ideology and Politics
1st Edition
By Bidyut Chakrabarty, Bhuwan Jha
June 30, 2021
This book offers an in-depth study of right-wing politics in India by analysing the shifting ideologies of Hindu nationalism and its evolution in the late nineteenth century through to twenty-first century. The authors provide a thorough overview of the chronological evolution of Hindu nationalist ...