South Asian Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Small and Medium Enterprises in India

   Infirmities and Asymmetries in Industrial Clusters

   By Satyaki Roy

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   Small and medium enterprises (SME) have attracted increasing interest in the last few years, and industrialization is no longer seen as a linear way of development. This book analyzes how SME clusters emerge in a developing economy. Using India as a case study, it addresses one central question: If...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
2. Dharavi

   From Mega-Slum to Urban Paradigm

   By Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky

   Series: Cities and the Urban Imperative

   Located in the heart of Mumbai, Dharavi is estimated to be the largest slum in Asia. Often referred to as ‘Little India’, it has been home to thousands of migrants from across the country providing opportunities for work and livelihood. As such, Dharavi presents a fascinating paradox: the...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge India
3. Spirals of Contention

   Why India was Partitioned in 1947

   By Satish Saberwal

   This study examines the social and psychological processes that led to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It recognizes the long-term continuities in the idiom of conflict (as well as cooperation), and shows that, by 1900, the conflicts and animosities were gathering a...

   Published December 30th 2012 by Routledge India
4. Routledge Handbook of Indian Politics

   Edited by Atul Kohli, Prerna Singh

   India’s growing economic and socio-political importance on the global stage has triggered an increased interest in the country. This Handbook is a reference guide, which surveys the current state of Indian politics and provides a basic understanding of the ways in which the world’s largest...

   Published December 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. Empire, Industry and Class

   The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940

   By Anthony Cox

   Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

   Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision, cultures of labour and class formation between two...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Emptiness Appraised

   A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy

   By David F. Burton

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal

   The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism

   By Will Tuladhar-Douglas

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism - Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies

   Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. He provides the basis for the historical study of Newar Buddhism as...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and Images of the Hindu Tradition

   The Song of the Lord

   By Catherine A. Robinson

   The Bhagavad-Gita is probably the most popular - and certainly the most frequently quoted and widely studied - work of the Hindu scriptures. This book investigates the relationship between the various interpretations of the Bhagavad-Gita and the Hindu tradition. Taking into account a range of...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad

   The Covert War in Kashmir, 1947-2004

   By Praveen Swami

   Series: Asian Security Studies

   India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad explores the history of jihadist violence in Kashmir, and argues that the violent conflict which exploded after 1990 was not a historical discontinuity, but, rather, an escalation of what was by then a five-decade old secret war. Praveen Swami&...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
10. State-Business Relations and Economic Development in Africa and India

    Edited by Kunal Sen

    Series: Routledge-ERIA Studies in Development Economics

    When the state and business interact effectively they can promote a more efficient allocation of scarce resources, appropriate industrial policy and a more effective and prioritised removal of key obstacles to growth, than when the two sides fail to co-operate or engage in harmful collusion. This...

    Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge