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Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics
India's explosive economic growth and emerging power status make it a key country of interest for policymakers, researchers and scholars within South Asia and around the world. But while many of India's threats and conflicts are strategized and discussed extensively within the confines of security...
To Be Published August 25th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Development, Mobilities and Migration
In the era of globalization many minority populations are subject to marginalization and expulsion from their traditional habitats due to rapid economic restructuring and changing politico-spatial relations. This book presents an analytical framework for understanding how mobility is an inherent...
To Be Published August 28th 2013 by Routledge
Now available in paperback, the Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics examines key issues in politics of the five independent states of the South Asian region: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Written by experts in their respective areas, this Handbook introduces the reader...
To Be Published August 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
Suicide protest as actions done by social movement participants that are intended to knowingly result in their own death. These actions are undertaken to demand a particular previously articulated political outcome. This book examines the history and impact of suicide protest, which has...
To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
South Asia’s diaspora is among the world’s largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially. It is estimated that over 25 million persons of Indian descent live abroad; and many more millions have roots in other countries of the subcontinent, in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. There...
To Be Published September 2nd 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
Series: Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
Partition and post-colonial migrations – sometimes voluntary, often forced – have created borders in South Asia that serve to oppress rather than protect. Migrants and refugees feel their real home lies beyond the border, and liberation struggles continue the quest for freedoms that have proven to...
To Be Published September 11th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
The Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition is famous for its depth of devotion to Krishna, the blue-hued Deity. Chaitanya Vaishnavas are known for having refined the practice and aesthetics of devotion into a sophisticated science. This imposing devotional edifice was constructed upon a solid foundation of...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
There is a steady and growing scholarly, as well as popular interest in Hindu religion – especially devotional (bhakti) traditions as forms of spiritual practice and expressions of divine embodiment. Associated with this is the attention to sacred images and their worship. Attending Krishna's...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
In Indian philosophy and theology, the ideology of Vedanta occupies an important position. Hindu religious sects accept the Vedantic soteriology, which believes that there is only one conscious reality, Brahman from which the entire creation, both conscious and non-conscious, emanated. Madhusudana...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
