Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
About the Book Series
This series is published in association with the Centre for South Asian Studies, Edinburgh University - one of the leading centres for South Asian Studies in the UK with a strong interdisciplinary focus. It presents research monographs and high-quality edited volumes as well as textbook on topics concerning the Indian subcontinent from the modern period to contemporary times. It aims to advance understanding of the key issues in the study of South Asia, and contributions include works by experts in the social sciences and the humanities. In accordance with the academic traditions of Edinburgh, we particularly welcome submissions which emphasise the social in South Asian history, politics, sociology and anthropology, based upon thick description of empirical reality, generalised to provide original and broadly applicable conclusions.
The series welcomes new submissions from young researchers as well as established scholars working on South Asia, from any disciplinary perspective.
Please contact Dorothea Schaefter, Senior Editor, Routledge with "Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series" in the subject line if you wish to submit a new proposal.
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Postcolonial Theory and the Making of Hindu Nationalism: The Wages of Unreason
1st Edition
By Meera Nanda
June 06, 2025
This book tells the story of two strange bedfellows, the Postcolonial Left and the Hindu Right. It argues that the Postcolonial Left’s relentless attacks on the “epistemic violence” of Western norms of rationality and modernity are providing the conceptual vocabulary for the Hindu Right’s project ...
Authenticity, Legitimacy and the Transglobal Yoga Industry: A Sociological Analysis of Shanti Mandir
1st Edition
By Patrick S.D. McCartney
March 26, 2025
This book is a sociological study of knowledge and knowers and explores the production and perceived value of ‘yogic knowledge,’ how distinction is curated, and how access to this knowledge is gained. The book focuses on the organization Shanti Mandir (SM) in India, a new religious movement,...
Sex Work and Social Movement in India: Mobilizing in the Time of Pandemics
1st Edition
By Toorjo Ghose
December 11, 2024
This book examines and theorizes about the emergence, growth, impact, collapse, and rejuvenation of a sex worker movement in India, exploring the manner in which the two pandemics – HIV and COVID-19 – bookended a feminist movement through more than a quarter of a century, shaping its trajectory ...
Democracy and Transparency in the Indian State: The Making of the Right to Information Act
1st Edition
By Prashant Sharma
January 24, 2018
The enactment of the national Right to Information (RTI) Act in 2005 has been produced, consumed, and celebrated as an important event of democratic deepening in India both in terms of the process that led to its enactment (arising from a grassroots movement) and its outcome (fundamentally altering...
The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka: Transnational Commitments to Social Change
1st Edition
By Eva Gerharz
October 26, 2017
Sri Lanka’s conflict and peace processes have gained global attention during recent years. This book presents a comprehensive insight into the politics of reconstruction and development in Sri Lanka, focussing on the ceasefire which was negotiated between the Government of Sri Lanka and the ...
Transnational Pakistani Connections: Marrying ‘Back Home’
1st Edition
By Katharine Charsley
October 23, 2017
Since restrictions on commonwealth labour immigration to Britain in the 1960s, marriage has been the dominant form of migration between Pakistan and the UK. Most transnational Pakistani marriages are between cousins or other more distant relatives, lending a particular texture to this transnational...
Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life after Terror
1st Edition
By Dhana Hughes
October 12, 2017
Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the ...
Development and Public Health in the Himalaya: Reflections on healing in contemporary Nepal
1st Edition
By Ian Harper
May 25, 2017
Engaging with a range of public health issues, this book charts important social and political transitions in Nepal through the lens of medicine and health development. It focuses on mission health care institutions, tuberculosis control programmes as a site of medical intervention, the "...
Princely India Re-imagined: A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the present
1st Edition
By Aya Ikegame
May 18, 2017
India’s Princely States covered nearly 40 per cent of the Indian subcontinent at the time of Indian independence, and they collapsed after the departure of the British. This book provides a chronological analysis of the Princely State in colonial times and its post-colonial legacies. Focusing on ...
Empire, Nationalism and the Postcolonial World: Rabindranath Tagore's Writings on History, Politics and Society
1st Edition
By Michael Collins
October 12, 2015
By presenting a new interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore’s English language writings, this book places the work of India’s greatest Nobel Prize winner and cultural icon in the context of imperial history and thereby bridges the gap between Tagore studies and imperial/postcolonial historiography. ...
Empire, Industry and Class: The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940
1st Edition
By Anthony Cox
July 16, 2015
Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision, cultures of labour and class formation between two ...
Sovereignty and Social Reform in India: British Colonialism and the Campaign against Sati, 1830-1860
1st Edition
By Andrea Major
May 21, 2015
The British prohibition of sati (the funeral practice of widow immolation) in 1829 has been considered an archetypal example of colonial social reform. It was not the end of the story, however, as between 1830 and 1860, British East India Company officials engaged in a debate with the Indian rulers...