Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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Reshaping City Governance
London, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
It is well recognised that while India is a rising power, poised to emerge into the front rank of global economies, the pace and scale of India’s urbanisation calls for more effective metropolitan management if that growth is not to be constrained by gathering urban crisis. Three of the greatest...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Post-9/11 Espionage Fiction in the US and Pakistan
Spies and Fundamentalists
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Through an analysis of a variety of US and Pakistani novels and films since 9/11 Cara Cilano focuses on how such fictions construct an understanding of history through the portrayal of two stock characters in the espionage genre: the spy and the spy’s nemesis, who, in this context, is the religious...
To Be Published April 29th 2014 by Routledge
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Islamic Banking in Pakistan
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Pakistan was one of the pioneers of Islamic Banking and Finance (IBF) as it converted to an interest-free banking system in 1985. This book critically analyzes the experience of Pakistan with IBF. Drawing on first-hand experience of the Pakistani banking environment and practices, the...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
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The Bengal Diaspora
Muslim Migrants in Britain, India and Bangladesh
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
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Being Bengali
At Home and in the World
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Bengal has long been one of the key centres of civilisation and culture in the Indian subcontinent. However, Bengal identity – "Bengaliness" – is complicated by the fact that Bengal is now divided between India and Bangladesh, and by the fact that there is a very large international diaspora from...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Transitional Justice in South Asia
A Study of Afghanistan and Nepal
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
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Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English
Idea, Nation, State
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
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Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka
The Trouser Under the Cloth
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
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Politics of Development in Pakistan
Living Village
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Pakistan, sixth most populous country in the world, has not gone through systematic and effective land or agrarian reforms in sixty-three years of its existence. Almost 67 per cent of its 167 million inhabitants still live in rural areas and directly or indirectly rely on agriculture for their...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity
In Search of the Modern?
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
This book analyses the relationship between cinema and modernity in Bangladesh. It investigates the roles of a non-western ‘national’ film industry in Asia in constructing nationhood and identity within colonial and postcolonial predicaments. The political and economic forces and the cultural...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Regional Economic Integration in South Asia
Trapped in Conflict?
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
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Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka
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 a highly fetishsised form of Sinhalese nationalism in the colonial and postcolonial periods, and the framing of subsequent key constitutional...
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Renewable Energy Policies in South Asia
Making Solar Lighting Work
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
The World Bank’s ‘Design Principles’ for successful renewable energy interventions are cost management, good governance and a choice of technology that meets local needs. Focusing on solar lighting and drawing on case studies in Bangladesh and India, this book problematicises the underpinning...
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Bollywood and Globalization
The Global Power of Popular Hindi Cinema
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
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Writing the City in British-Asian Diasporas
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
This book revisits the study of South Asians in Britain and beyond. It looks at the concept of diaspora by probing the ways in which the South Asian diaspora could be re-conceptualised as comprising communities whose identity, on both individual and collective levels, is grounded in a sense of...
To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Ritual and Recovery in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Following over twenty years of war, Sri Lanka’s longest cease-fire (2002-2006) provided a final opportunity for an inclusive peace settlement between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). However, hostilities resumed with ever increasing desperation and ferocity...
Published September 5th 2012 by Routledge
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Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka
Up-country Tamil Identity Politics
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Focusing on notions of diaspora, identity and agency, this book examines ethnicity in war-torn Sri Lanka. It highlights the historical development and negotiation of a new identification of Up-country Tamil amidst Sri Lanka’s violent ethnic politics. Over the past thirty years, Up-country (Indian...
Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
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Religious Freedom in India
Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Drawing on the critical and theoretical concepts of sovereignty, biopolitics, and necropolitics, this book examines how a normative liberal and secular understanding of India’s religious identity is translatable by Hindu nationalists into discrimination and violence against minoritized religious...
Published August 30th 2012 by Routledge
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The Economics of Urban Migration in India
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Presenting new research on rural-urban migration in developing countries, this book combines novel economic theories with empirics, and focuses on the social dimensions of such movement. Centering on the movement from villages to cities in South Asia, and in India in particular, the book argues the...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Islam and Higher Education
Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
This book is the first study to qualitatively explore the concepts of higher education in Muslim contexts. It examines the different concepts of ‘a university’ and the way they shape practice in Muslim contexts, with a particular focus on the Islamic republic of Pakistan. Contributing to...
Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal
Identities and Mobilization after 1990
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Identity movements, based on ethnicity, caste, language, religion and regional identity, have become increasingly significant in Nepal, reshaping debates on the definition of the nation, nationalism and the structure of the state. This book analyzes the rapid rise in ethnic and nationalist...
Published August 15th 2012 by Routledge
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The Politics of Ethnicity in Pakistan
The Baloch, Sindhi and Mohajir Ethnic Movements
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
In order to understand the Pakistani state and government’s treatment of non-dominant ethnic groups after the failure of the military operation in East Pakistan and the independence of Bangladesh, this book looks at the ethnic movements that were subject to a military operation after 1971: the...
Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
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Bollywood Travels
Culture, Diaspora and Border Crossings in Popular Hindi Cinema
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Using an interdisciplinary framework, this book offers a fresh perspective on the issues of diaspora culture and border crossings in the films, popular cultures, and media and entertainment industries from the popular Hindi cinema of India. It analyses and discusses a range of key contemporary...
Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
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Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan
Traversing the Margins
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
The Karakoram Highway was constructed by the Pakistani state in the 1970s as a major development project that furthered the national interest and solidified state control over the disputed region of northern Pakistan. Focusing on this highway, this book provides a unique analysis of the...
Published March 6th 2012 by Routledge
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Kashmir’s Right to Secede
A Critical Examination of Contemporary Theories of Secession
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
A separatist conflict has been ongoing in India-administered Kashmir since 1989. Focusing on this region, this book critiques the existing normative theories of secession, and offers a comprehensive examination of the right of sub-groups to secede. The book looks at the different accounts of the...
Published February 15th 2012 by Routledge
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South Asian Security
21st Century Discourses
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
The South Asian security complex refers to security interdependencies between the states in the region, and also includes the effect that powerful external actors, such as China, the US and Russia, and geopolitical interests have on regional dynamics. This book focuses on the national securities of...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
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Being Middle-class in India
A Way of Life
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Hailed as the beneficiary, driving force and result of globalisation, India’s middle-class is puzzling in its diversity, as a multitude of traditions, social formations and political constellations manifest contribute to this project. This book looks at Indian middle-class lifestyles through a...
Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
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Non-discrimination and Equality in India
Contesting Boundaries of Social Justice
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Social Justice is a concept familiar to most Indians but one whose meaning is not always understood as it signifies a variety of government strategies designed to enhance opportunities for underprivileged groups. By tracing the trajectory of social justice from the colonial period to the present,...
Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge
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Pakistan's Stability Paradox
Domestic, Regional and International Dimensions
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Pakistan, with the second largest Muslim population in the world, is a crucial country in the international system. It is an ally of the United States in the global ‘war on terror’ but is also regarded as a major bastion of some of the most active jihadist organisations. This book highlights and...
Published September 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Transforming Urban Water Supplies in India
The Role of Reform and Partnerships in Globalization
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
The absence of water supply infrastructure is a critical issue that affects the sustainability of cities in the developing world and the quality of life of millions of people living in these cities. Urban India has probably the largest concentration of people in the world lacking safe access to...
Published September 13th 2011 by Routledge
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Education and Inequality in India
A Classroom View
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India. This book looks at the reproduction of social inequalities within the educational system in India, and how this is contested in different ways. It examines whether the concept of `education for all’ is just a...
Published August 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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The Culturalization of Caste in India
Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age
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 July 19th 2011 by Routledge
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Islamic Revival in Nepal
Religion and a New Nation
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 June 29th 2011 by Routledge
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Corporate Social Responsibility in India
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Presenting an analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India, this book looks at the unique roots of the concept in India. It examines Gandhi’s philosophical moorings that inform India’s approach to CSR, and the role of civil society in setting an agenda for championing the rights of...
Published June 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Development–induced Displacement, Rehabilitation and Resettlement in India
Current Issues and Challenges
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Compulsory land acquisition and involuntary displacement of communities for a larger public purpose captures the tension of development in the modern state, with the need to balance the interests of the majority while protecting the rights of the minority. In India, informal estimates of...
Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
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The Politics of Belonging in India
Becoming Adivasi
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Since the 1990s, the Indigenous movement worldwide has become increasingly relevant to research in India, re-shaping the terms of engagement with Adivasi (Indigenous/tribal) peoples and their pasts. This book responds to the growing need for an inter-disciplinary re-assessment of Tribal studies in...
Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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South Asia in the New World Order
The Role of Regional Cooperation
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Rapid changes have taken place in the structure of the global economy, and this book looks at how South Asia can take advantage of these changes. The author argues that the developing global economy will be more complex than originally thought, that instead of a bipolar model with two countries,...
Published March 21st 2011 by Routledge
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Explaining Pakistan’s Foreign Policy
Escaping India
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
Pakistan has over the decades become a hotbed for the terrorist ideology often referred to as Jihadism. This book investigates the underlying principles of Pakistan’s foreign policy from 1947 until the present day, and explains the rise of Jihadism as an offshoot of Pakistan’s security concerns....
Published March 8th 2011 by Routledge