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Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
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...
To Be Published July 10th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
The rhetoric of armed social welfare has become prominent in military and counterinsurgency circuits with profound consequences for the meanings of democracy, citizenship, and humanitarianism in conflict zones. By focusing on the border district of Kargil, the site of India and Pakistan’s fourth...
To Be Published September 4th 2013 by Routledge
Religious identity constitutes a key element in the formation, development and sustenance of South Asian diasporic communities. Through studies of South Asian communities situated in multiple locales, this book explores the role of religious identity in the social and political organization of the...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
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...
To Be Published November 26th 2013 by Routledge
Sociological research on Indian families has largely focused on questions of household form and structure, to the exclusion of not only the more nebulous dimensions of family life and relationships but also the discursive and imagined aspects of our familial worlds such as may be accessed through...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
Cultural norms have a significant influence on marital expectations and quality of marriage. India, the emerging prominent South Asian nation continues to retain the historical tradition of arranged marriages in the 21st century. Exploring individual, contextual, and interactional predictors to...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Looking at the discourse of otherism and issue of otherness in South Asian religion, literature and film, this book examines cultural questions related to the human condition of being the ‘other’, of the process of ‘othering’ and of the representation of ‘otherness’ and its religion, cultural and...
To Be Published December 4th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics
This study provides a detailed description of the Kanniyakumari dialect of Tamil within the theoretical framework of Lexical Phonology. This work, which includes a careful analysis of the segments, syllables, morphemes, and noun and verb morphology, remains one of the very few accounts of a spoken...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
The book examine why and how Gandhi and his ideas continue to matter. It captures what it is that makes the Mahatma challenge, puzzle, and exasperate, to discover how he continues to be relevant, even contemporary, and to define what saves him from simply fading into oblivion. It analyses Gandhi’s...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Recent decades have witnessed the growth of a new interest, both scholarly and political, in migration and diaspora. This book focuses on three groups of Muslim Bengali migrants. One group had migrated across international borders after partition and settled in Britain; the second had crossed...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
