Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

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1. Islamic Revival in Nepal

   Religion and a New Nation

   By Megan Adamson Sijapati

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   This book draws on extensive fieldwork among Muslims in Nepal to examine the local and global factors that shape contemporary Muslim identity and the emerging Islamic revival movement based in the Kathmandu valley. Nepal's Muslims are active participants in the larger global movement of Sunni...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia

   By Bina D’Costa

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   This book gives a detailed political analysis of nationbuilding processes and how these are closely linked to statebuilding and to issues of war crime, gender and sexuality, and marginalization of minority groups. With a focus on the Indian subcontinent, the author demonstrates how the state...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Capitalist Development in India's Informal Economy

   By Elisabetta Basile

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   This book explores the economy and society of Provincial India in the post-Green Revolution period. It argues that the low 'quality' of capital development in India's villages and small towns is the joint outcome of the informal economic organisation, that is strongly biased in favour of...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Culturalization of Caste in India

   Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age

   By Balmurli Natrajan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions of how caste survives the...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
5. Transitional Justice in South Asia

   A Study of Afghanistan and Nepal

   By Tazreena Sajjad

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Offering a comparative case study of transitional justice processes in Afghanistan and Nepal, this book critically evaluates the way the "local" is consulted in post-conflict efforts toward peace and reconciliation. It argues that there is a tendency in transitional justice efforts to contain the...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
6. Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English

   Idea, Nation, State

   By Cara Cilano

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. Civil Society and Democratization in India

   Institutions, Ideologies and Interests

   By Sarbeswar Sahoo

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Developing a distinctive theoretical framework on civil society, this book examines how Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) contribute towards democratization in India and what conditions facilitate or inhibit their contribution. It assesses three different kinds of politics within civil society...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. Regional Economic Integration in South Asia

   Trapped in Conflict?

   By Amita Batra

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   South Asia today is among the most unstable regions in the world, riddled by both intra- and inter-state conflict. This book presents a comprehensive technical analysis of the trade–conflict relationship within the region, and explores how South Asia demonstrates underperformance of its potential...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
9. Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka

   The Trouser Under the Cloth

   By Anoma Pieris

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The role of the home, the domestic sphere and the intimate, ethno-cultural identities that are cultivated within it, are critical to understanding the polemical constructions of country and city; tradition and modernity; and regionalism and cosmopolitanism. The home is fundamental to ideas of the...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
10. Bollywood and Globalization

    The Global Power of Popular Hindi Cinema

    Edited by David Schaefer, Kavita Karan

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    The field of Bollywood studies has remained predominantly critical, theoretical and historical in focus. This book brings together qualitative and quantitative approaches to tackle empirical questions focusing on the relationship between soft power, hybridity, cinematic texts, and audiences....

    Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge