Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka

Rajesh Venugopal

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences | nr. 5
• This book examines the relationship between ethnic conflict and economic development in modern Sri Lanka. Drawing on a historically informed political... Lees meer

South Asian Governmentalities

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences | nr. 6
• This volume analyses the ways in which the works of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault, have been rece... Lees meer

Development After Statism

Adnan Naseemullah

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences
• How can industrial production be managed without the guidance of the state? Adnan Naseemullah discusses industrial development in a new era of drastic... Lees meer

Colossus

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences | nr. 15
• The National Capital Region of Delhi is a diverse and unequal space. Its more than 30 million people are sharply differentiated by economic class, rel... Lees meer

When Ideas Matter

Bilal A Baloch

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences | nr. 16
• Comparativist scholarship conventionally gives unbridled primacy to external, material interests-chiefly votes and rents-as proximately shaping politi... Lees meer

New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences
• This volume makes a major intervention in the debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dyna... Lees meer

Politics of the Poor

Indrajit Roy

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences | nr. 4
• This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor eng... Lees meer

An Uneasy Hegemony

Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences | nr. 19
• Sri Lanka has been regarded as a model democracy among former British colonies. It was lauded for its impressive achievement in terms of human develop... Lees meer

Deceptive Majority

Joel Lee

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences | nr. 14
• The idea that India is a Hindu majority nation rests on the assumption that the vast swath of its population stigmatized as 'untouchable' is, and alwa... Lees meer

Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal

Ina Zharkevich

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences | nr. 8
• By providing a rich ethnography of wartime social processes in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book explores how the Maoist People's War (1... Lees meer

Bureaucratic Archaeology

Ashish Avikunthak

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences | nr. 17
• Bureaucratic Archaeology is a multi-faceted ethnography of quotidian practices of archaeology, bureaucracy and science in postcolonial India, concentr... Lees meer

The Odds Revisited

K A S Murshid

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences | nr. 18
• This book looks at Bangladesh at and beyond its fifty years since its formation in 1971. A comprehensive, holistic narrative is constructed to track k... Lees meer

In Search of Home

Kaveri Haritas

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences | nr. 15
• In Search of Home explores a new yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing for the displaced poor, which increasingly dots the... Lees meer

Founding Mothers of the Indian Republic

Achyut Chetan

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences | nr. 17
• The book begins with the momentous task of demolishing the prejudices attached with the phrase 'founding fathers' that has held an immense sway over c... Lees meer

Freedom in Captivity

Radhika Gupta

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences
• How do borderland dwellers living along militarised frontiers negotiate regimes of state security and their geopolitical location in everyday life? Wh... Lees meer

Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters

Shandana Khan Mohmand

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences | nr. 8
• How does democracy empower marginalized voters under conditions of inequality? The author probes into this question grounding her research in the cont... Lees meer

Development After Statism

Adnan Naseemullah

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences
• How can industrial production be managed without the guidance of the state? Adnan Naseemullah discusses industrial development in a new era of drastic... Lees meer

When Ideas Matter

Bilal A Baloch

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia in the Social Sciences
• Comparativist scholarship conventionally gives unbridled primacy to external, material interests-chiefly votes and rents-as proximately shaping politi... Lees meer