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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The Guru in South Asia: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Jacob Copeman, Aya Ikegame
February 25, 2014
This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives...
Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean: Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders
1st Edition
By Satadru Sen
April 10, 2012
This book examines the social, political and ideological dimensions of the encounter between the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman islands, British colonizers and Indian settlers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The British-Indian penal settlements in the Andaman Islands – beginning ...
Gender and Sexuality in India: Selling Sex in Chennai
1st Edition
By Salla Sariola
February 21, 2012
India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world. HIV has remained associated with sex work, and large sums of money provided to fund public health interventions have come from global institutions such as UNAIDS, the World Bank and USAID. In the midst of these processes, however, ...