Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

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1. The Culturalization of Caste in India

   Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age

   By Balmurli Natrajan

   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 May 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Water, Democracy and Neoliberalism in India

   The Power to Reform

   By Vicky Walters

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Since the early 1990s, the achievement of ‘good governance’ has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development. This book presents a critical challenge to the contemporary development paradigm of good governance. Based on original ethnographic fieldwork on urban water...

   Published May 26th 2013 by Routledge
3. Displacement and Resettlement in India

   The Human Cost of Development

   By Hari Mathur

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   In the past ten years or so, displacement by development projects has gone on almost untamed under the globalization pressures to meet the demand for land from local and increasingly foreign investors. Focusing on India, this book looks at the complex issue of resettling people who are displaced...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
4. Islamic Revival in Nepal

   Religion and a New Nation

   By Megan Adamson Sijapati

   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 May 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia

   By Bina D’Costa

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   This book gives a detailed political analysis of nationbuilding processes and how these are closely linked to statebuilding and to issues of war crime, gender and sexuality, and marginalization of minority groups. With a focus on the Indian subcontinent, the author demonstrates how the state...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. Capitalist Development in India's Informal Economy

   By Elisabetta Basile

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   This book explores the economy and society of Provincial India in the post-Green Revolution period. It argues that the low 'quality' of capital development in India's villages and small towns is the joint outcome of the informal economic organisation, that is strongly biased in favour of...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
7. Transitional Justice in South Asia

   A Study of Afghanistan and Nepal

   By Tazreena Sajjad

   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
8. Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English

   Idea, Nation, State

   By Cara Cilano

   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
9. Civil Society and Democratization in India

   Institutions, Ideologies and Interests

   By Sarbeswar Sahoo

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   Developing a distinctive theoretical framework on civil society, this book examines how Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) contribute towards democratization in India and what conditions facilitate or inhibit their contribution. It assesses three different kinds of politics within civil society...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
10. Regional Economic Integration in South Asia

    Trapped in Conflict?

    By Amita Batra

    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