Book Series in Asian Studies
Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
New & Published Titles:
The Construction of History and Nationalism in India
Textbooks, Controversies and Politics
Most studies on nations and nationalism argue that history, or more precisely a 'common past', is crucial for the process of national identity building. However,…
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Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age
Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age examines the construction of a Sikh national identity in post-colonial India and the diaspora and explores the…
read moreApril 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58610-8 (Routledge)
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The Tibetan Government-in-Exile
Politics at Large
This book provides a detailed account of the structure and political strategies of the Tibetan government-in exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), in northern India.…
read moreApril 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-58612-2 (Routledge)
Dispossession and Resistance in India
The River and the Rage
This book deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams, with a particular focus on the Narmada Valley projects in India. Based on…
read moreMarch 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55864-8 (Routledge)
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The Politics of Social Exclusion in India
Democracy at the Crossroads
Social exclusion and inclusion remain issues of fundamental importance to democracy. Both exclusion and inclusion relate to the access to participation in the public realm,…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55357-5 (Routledge)
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Party System Change in South India
Political Entrepreneurs, Patterns and Processes
This book provides a systematic exploration of party system change. By applying the concept of political entrepreneurship and using a detailed case study of the…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40131-9 (Routledge)
Starvation and India’s Democracy
This book analyzes India’s impressive efforts in responding to sensational and easily visible disasters in contrast to the ‘silent emergency’ of drought-induced under nutrition and…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54465-8 (Routledge)
Military Control in Pakistan
The Parallel State
This volume examines the role of the military, the most influential actor in Pakistan, and challenges conventional wisdom on the causes of political instability in…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54474-0 (Routledge)
Political Mobilisation and Democracy in India
States of Emergency
This book addresses the paradox of political mobilization and the failings of governance in India, with reference to the conflict between secularism and Hindu nationalism,…
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India's Nuclear Bomb and National Security
India’s Nuclear Bomb and National Security gives an analytic account of the dynamics of India's nuclear build up. It puts forward a new comprehensive model,…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54448-1 (Routledge)
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Series Details:
South Asia, with its burgeoning, ethnically diverse population, soaring economies, and nuclear weapons, is an increasingly important region in the global context. The series, which builds on this complex, dynamic and volatile area, features innovative and original research on the region as a whole or on the countries. Its scope extends to scholarly works drawing on history, politics, development studies, sociology and economics of individual countries from the region as well those that take an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the area as a whole or to a comparison of two or more countries from this region. In terms of theory and method, rather than basing itself on any one orthodoxy, the series draws broadly on the insights germane to area studies, as well as the tool kit of the social sciences in general, emphasizing comparison, the analysis of the structure and processes, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods. The series welcomes submissions from established authors in the field as well as from young authors who have recently completed their doctoral dissertations.
Forthcoming Titles:
Sufism and Saint Veneration in Contemporary Bangladesh: The Maijbhandaris of Chittagong
By Hans Harder
To be published January 31st 2011
New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party
By Sebastian Schwecke
To be published December 1st 2010
Political Survival in Pakistan: Beyond Ideology
By Anas Malik
To be published September 1st 2010