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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Partition, Belonging, and the Birth of Bangladesh
1st Edition
Edited
By Subho Basu, Sandeep Banerjee
April 01, 2026
This book traces the cultural and political economic roots through which an independent Bangladesh was created, exploring the social, cultural and political strands that informed and influenced the experience of Bengali-speaking people in the region from 1947 to 1971 and beyond. Featuring cutting ...
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 ...
Migrant Health Professionals and the Global Labour Market: The Dreams and Traps of Nepali Nurses
1st Edition
By Radha Adhikari
August 29, 2022
This book offers a fresh perspective on gender debates in Nepal and analyses how the international migration of the first generation of professional female Nepali nurses has been a catalyst for social change.With unprecedented access to study participants in Nepal (the source country), ...
Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization: Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony
1st Edition
By Sandeep Banerjee
March 31, 2021
The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagine the British Indian colony as the postcolony in diverse and contested ways. Focusing on the literary field of South Asia between, largely, the 1860s ...
Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Carol Upadhya, Mario Rutten, Leah Koskimaki
August 14, 2020
The movement of people from small towns and villages of India to places outside the country raises a number of questions– about the networks that enable their mobility, the aspirations that motivate them, what they give back to their home regions, and how their provincial home worlds engage with ...
Urban Marginalisation in South Asia: Waste Pickers in Calcutta
1st Edition
By Nandini Sen
August 14, 2020
The community of waste pickers in Calcutta stands on its own against the hostile outside which comprises the state, elites and mainstream society. The residents of this unique world continuously try to escape the ‘ideal’ world of uniform homogeneity of legally legitimate profession, shelter, ...
Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India: The Life and Landscapes of Dreams
1st Edition
By Michael Heneise
June 30, 2020
The Nagas of Northeast India give great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although British colonialism, Christian missions, and political conflict have resulted in sweeping cultural and political transformations in the Indo-Myanmar ...
Global Health Governance and Commercialisation of Public Health in India: Actors, Institutions and the Dialectics of Global and Local
1st Edition
Edited
By Anuj Kapilashrami, Rama V. Baru
June 30, 2020
Global health governance has been the subject of wide scholarship, more recently brought to the fore by priorities for global health defined by the Sustainable Development Agenda. The health landscape itself has changed dramatically in the last two decades, shaped by cross-border flows of capital, ...
Activism and Agency in India: Nurturing Resistance in the Tea Plantations
1st Edition
By Supurna Banerjee
December 12, 2019
During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation, framed by conflict and turbulence.This book is an interdisciplinary and intersectional work examining the nature of victimhood and agency among women workers on tea plantations...
Everyday State and Politics in India: Government in the Backyard in Kalahandi
1st Edition
By Sailen Routray
December 12, 2019
The Kalahandi district in the state of Odisha in Eastern India is regarded as an iconic region of underdevelopment, and is often perceived to be the ‘Somalia’ of the country. It is also the site of a large number of governmental interventions.This book focuses on processes of governance in Odisha, ...