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Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
This book analyses Sikh communal identity as it was established in the Far East under the auspices of the British Empire. Focusing on Singapore with a comparative case study with Malaysia, where Sikh communities form a significant minority in terms of numbers and visibility and have had significant...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
This book discusses the role of popular Islam in structuring individual and collective identities in contemporary South Asia. It identifies similarities and differences between the worship of saints and the pattern of religious attendance to tombs and mausoleums in South Asian Sufism and Shi`ism....
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
This book charts important social and political transitions in Nepal through the lens of medicine. It engages with a range of issues - mission health care institutions, tuberculosis as a sight of ethnographic inquiry and medical intervention, the pharmaceuticalization of mental health and public...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
This book analyses the political economy of India’s economic reforms. It explains how changes in state-market relations in the context of liberalisation are redefining the conditions and modalities of economic governance (the institutions and actors who shape the economic and political processes...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
To Be Published January 4th 2014 by Routledge
The 1970s was a pivotal decade in the Indian social, cultural, political and economic landscape: the global oil crisis, wars with China and Pakistan in the previous decade, the Bangladesh war of 1971, labour and food shortages, widespread political corruption, and the declaration of the state of...
To Be Published January 12th 2014 by Routledge
This textbook provides a different approach to the History of India than previously advocated. It argues that there was constant interaction between peoples and cultures, and as such, the it presents the history of India in this fashion. This interactive, dialogic approach provides a more better...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
This introductory textbook provides students with a fundamental understanding of the politics of six South Asian countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. It adopts a broad theoretical framework and evaluates the opportunities and constraints facing South Asia’s...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Earthscan Conservation and Development
The Asian elephant is an endangered species and a cultural icon in both Asia and the West, while in India it is both deified and demonized. Human-elephant encounters and relationships are the focus of this book, which shows how these are politicized and pose challenges for rural development and...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
This book provides a comprehensive survey of cutting edge scholarship in the field of German-Indian and South Asian Studies. Combining transnational, post-colonial, and comparative approaches, it includes the entire twentieth century, from the First World War and Weimar Republic to the Third Reich...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
