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1. 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
2. Architecture and Nationalism in Sri Lanka

   The Trouser Under the Cloth

   By Anoma Pieris

   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
3. Bollywood and Globalization

   The Global Power of Popular Hindi Cinema

   Edited by David Schaefer, Kavita Karan

   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
4. Ritual and Recovery in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka

   By Jane Derges

   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
5. Religious Freedom in India

   Sovereignty and (Anti) Conversion

   By Goldie Osuri

   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
6. Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal

   Identities and Mobilization after 1990

   Edited by Mahendra Lawoti, Susan Hangen

   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
7. Islam and Higher Education

   Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities

   By Marodsilton Muborakshoeva

   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
8. Everyday Ethnicity in Sri Lanka

   Up-country Tamil Identity Politics

   By Daniel Bass

   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
9. The Maoist Insurgency in Nepal

   Revolution in the Twenty-first Century

   Edited by Mahendra Lawoti, Anup Kumar Pahari

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The book deals with the dynamics and growth of a violent 21st century communist rebellion initiated in Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) – CPN(M). It contextualizes and explains why and how a violent Maoist insurgency grew in Nepal after the end of the Cold War, in contrast to the...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
10. The State in India after Liberalization

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Akhil Gupta, Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan

    Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

    This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. It is clear that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in dramatic increases in productivity and...

    Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge