Pakistan's Stability Paradox

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• Pakistan, with the second largest Muslim population in the world, is a crucial country in the international system. This book identifies the factors t... Lees meer

Political Economy of Development in India

Darley Kjosavik, Nadarajah Shanmugaratnam

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• In the Global South, indigenous people have been continuously subjected to top-down, and often violent, processes of post-colonial state and nation bu... Lees meer

Culture, Health and Development in South Asia

M Islam

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• Recently, mass arsenic poisoning of groundwater has emerged as a disastrous public health concern in Bangladesh. Apart from hundreds of deaths that ha... Lees meer

The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Nepal

Susan I Hangen

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia | nr. 25
• This book argues that ethnic politics have the potential to strengthen rather than destabilize democracy. It studies one of Nepal's most significant s... Lees meer

The Geopolitics of Energy in South Asia

Chowdhury Ishrak Ahmed Siddiky

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• This book examines the relation between energy and politics in South Asia and explores the geo-politics surrounding energy security in the region. Lees meer

Reading Jhumpa Lahiri

Nilanjana Chatterjee

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• This book is an innovative and rigorous study of Jhumpa Lahiri's Indian American female characters' lived and imagined diasporic house space, using do... Lees meer

Water Policy Processes in India

Vandana Asthana

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• Water Policy Processes in India covers a critical gap in the literature by analyzing the process through which policies in India are developed and imp... Lees meer

Microcredit and Women's Empowerment

Aminul Faraizi, Taskinur Rahman, Jim McAllister

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• Using the case study of Bangladesh and based on a long term participatory observation method, this book investigates the claims of the success of micr... Lees meer

Socio-Cultural Insights of Childbirth in South Asia

Sabitra Kaphle

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• This book analyses the significant socio-cultural factors impacting childbirth experiences of women living in remote and complex social settings. This... Lees meer

Gendered Modernity and Indian Cinema

Devapriya Sanyal

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• This book analyses the role of women in the films one of the leading filmmakers of the 'Third World' in the 1950s, Satyajit Ray, a national icon in fi... Lees meer

Minority Governments in India

Csaba Nikolenyi

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• This book offers an explanation for the recurrence of hung parliaments and minority governments in India. The Indian case study provides lessons for t... Lees meer

Twenty-First Century Bollywood

Ajay Gehlawat

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• Key changes have emerged in Bollywood in the new millennium. Twenty-First Century Bollywood traces the emerging shifts in both the content and form of... Lees meer

The Judicialization of Politics in Pakistan

Waris Husain

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• This book analyses the Pakistani judiciary through the important lens of comparative politics. It uses the counter-examples of India and the United St... Lees meer

Ethics in Governance in India

Bidyut Chakrabarty

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• Governance and ethics are intertwined. A government functions within certain broad moral and ethical parameters, integrally linked with the sociologic... Lees meer

Water, Democracy and Neoliberalism in India

Vicky Walters

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• Since the early 1990s, the achievement of 'good governance' has been a dominant discourse in the pursuit of social and economic development. This book... Lees meer

Terrorism and the US Drone Attacks in Pakistan

Imdad Ullah

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• This book analyses the US drone attacks against terrorists in Pakistan to assess whether the 'pre-emptive' use of combat drones to kill terrorists is ... Lees meer

Explaining Pakistan's Foreign Policy

Aparna Pande

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• Pakistan has over the decades become a hotbed for the terrorist ideology often referred to as Jihadism. This book investigates the underlying principl... Lees meer

Being Bengali

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• Bengal has long been one of the key centres of civilisation and culture in the Indian subcontinent. However, Bengal identity - "Bengaliness" - is comp... Lees meer

The Multiplex in India

Adrian Athique, Douglas Hill

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• This book provides the reader with a comprehensive account of the new leisure infrastructure arising at the intersection between contemporary trends i... Lees meer

The Politics of Belonging in India

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• Since the 1990s, the Indigenous movement worldwide has become increasingly relevant to research in India, re-shaping the terms of engagement with Adiv... Lees meer

Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka

Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• Nation, Constitutionalism and Buddhism in Sri Lanka offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka... Lees meer

Islamic Banking in Pakistan

Feisal Khan

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• This book analyses the push to Islamize Pakistan and its financial system by Islamic revivalists. It offers extensive interviews with Pakistani Islami... Lees meer

Madrasas in South Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia | nr. 4
• This book discusses the educational system of madrasas in South Asia. It gives a balanced and contextual account on different facets of madrasa educat... Lees meer

National Identities in Pakistan

Cara Cilano

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Contemporary South Asia
• In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the... Lees meer