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Series: New International Relations
This book evaluates American foreign policy actions from the perspective of great power responsibility, with three case studies: Operation Iraqi Freedom, American drone strikes in Pakistan and the post- 9/11 practice of extraordinary rendition. This book argues that the US invasion of Iraq in 2003...
To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
This book investigates the identity issues of South Asians in the diaspora. It engages the theoretical and methodological debates concerning processes of culture and identity in the contemporary context of globalisation and transnationalism. It analyses the South Asian diaspora - a perfect route to...
To Be Published July 2nd 2013 by Routledge
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: Interventions
This work seeks to examine the event and concurrent transition that the inauguration of India and Pakistan as ‘postcolonial’ states in August 1947 constituted and effectuated. Analysing India and Pakistan together in a parallel and mutually dependant reading, and utilizing primary data and...
To Be Published July 11th 2013 by Routledge
How does gender relate to the making and challenging of politics based on religion? This book attempts to shed new light on the multi-faceted relationship gender in relation to religio-politics at the local, national and global levels. Bringing together an international group of scholars, this...
To Be Published July 11th 2013 by Routledge
Series: ThirdWorlds
This volume explores how difference is constructed, manifested, mobilised and obscured in socially uneven societies, particularly those fuelled by neoliberal economic growth in the recent years. The book approaches difference as a double edged concept that allows one to make sense of the...
To Be Published July 15th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Focusing on Sri Lanka, this book offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about nationalism in South Asia. It looks at the ‘capture’ of Buddhism by militant Sinhalese nationalism in the colonial and postcolonial periods, and the framing of subsequent key constitutional legal moments. The...
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Pathfinders
The book explores the various stages of Shyamji Krishnavarma’s life in India and abroad. Particular emphasis is placed on his role as cultural mediator who exerted a formative influence, on both the European view of India as well as the Indian reception of Western political thought....
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge India
This book critically engages with the idea of decentralization as empowering cities and their residents to act innovatively and creatively. The contributions thus highlight how the term ‘empowerment’ in the context of decentralization regimes masks a competing array of intentions and agendas. Who...
To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
Food security is one of the twenty-first century’s key global challenges, and lessons learned from India have particular significance worldwide. Not only does India account for approximately one quarter of the world’s under-nourished persons, it also provides a worrying case of how rapid economic...
To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
