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Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies


About the Series

Founding Editor: Subrata K. Mitra, University of Heidelberg, Germany

South Asia, with its burgeoning, ethnically diverse population, soaring economies, and nuclear weapons, is an increasingly important region in the global context. The series, which builds on this complex, dynamic and volatile area, features innovative and original research on the region as a whole or on the countries. Its scope extends to scholarly works drawing on history, politics, development studies, sociology and economics of individual countries from the region as well those that take an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to the area as a whole or to a comparison of two or more countries from this region. In terms of theory and method, rather than basing itself on any one orthodoxy, the series draws broadly on the insights germane to area studies, as well as the tool kit of the social sciences in general, emphasizing comparison, the analysis of the structure and processes, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods.

Works in the series are published simultaneously in UK/ US and India editions, as well as in e-book format. The series welcomes submissions from established authors in the field as well as from young authors who have recently completed their doctoral dissertations who wish to publish their first monograph under the care of the experienced Editorial Team.

If you wish to submit a proposal, please contact the series editor:

Rani D. Mullen, College of William and Mary, USA: [email protected]

and Dorothea Schaefter, Senior Editor, Routledge: [email protected]

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Party System Change in South India Political Entrepreneurs, Patterns and Processes

Party System Change in South India: Political Entrepreneurs, Patterns and Processes

1st Edition

By Andrew Wyatt
February 20, 2012

This book provides a systematic exploration of party system change. By applying the concept of political entrepreneurship and using a detailed case study of the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, it demonstrates how party leaders can exercise their agency and drive party system change. Recent ...

War and Nationalism in South Asia The Indian State and the Nagas

War and Nationalism in South Asia: The Indian State and the Nagas

1st Edition

By Marcus Franke
October 05, 2011

This book presents and analyses the oldest sub-national war of postcolonial South Asia, between the Indian state and the Nagas of Northeast India. It offers a serious and thorough political history on the Naga region over three periods, pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial. Drawing on a wealth...

Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age

Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age

1st Edition

By Giorgio Shani
April 08, 2010

Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age examines the construction of a Sikh national identity in post-colonial India and the diaspora and explores the reasons for the failure of the movement for an independent Sikh state: Khalistan. Based on a decade of research, it is argued that the failure...

The Tibetan Government-in-Exile Politics at Large

The Tibetan Government-in-Exile: Politics at Large

1st Edition

By Stephanie Roemer
April 08, 2010

This book provides a detailed account of the structure and political strategies of the Tibetan government-in exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), in northern India. Since its founding in 1959, it has been led by the 14th Dalai Lama who struggles to regain the Tibetan homeland. Based on ...

India's Nuclear Bomb and National Security

India's Nuclear Bomb and National Security

1st Edition

By Karsten Frey
April 29, 2009

India’s Nuclear Bomb and National Security gives an analytic account of the dynamics of India's nuclear build up. It puts forward a new comprehensive model, which goes beyond the classic strategic model of accepting motives of arming behaviour, and incorporates the dynamics in India’s nuclear ...

Military Control in Pakistan The Parallel State

Military Control in Pakistan: The Parallel State

1st Edition

By Mazhar Aziz
April 29, 2009

This volume examines the role of the military, the most influential actor in Pakistan, and challenges conventional wisdom on the causes of political instability in this geographically important nuclear state. It rejects views that ethnic and religious cleavages and perceived economic or political ...

Political Mobilisation and Democracy in India States of Emergency

Political Mobilisation and Democracy in India: States of Emergency

1st Edition

By Vernon Hewitt
April 29, 2009

This book addresses the paradox of political mobilization and the failings of governance in India, with reference to the conflict between secularism and Hindu nationalism, authoritarianism and democracy. It demonstrates how the Internal Emergency of 1975 led to increased support of groups such as ...

Starvation and India’s Democracy

Starvation and India’s Democracy

1st Edition

By Dan Banik
April 29, 2009

This book analyzes India’s impressive efforts in responding to sensational and easily visible disasters in contrast to the ‘silent emergency’ of drought-induced under nutrition and starvation deaths. Building on Amartya Sen’s famous claim that no famine has ever occurred in a democratic country, it...

Trade Policy, Inequality and Performance in Indian Manufacturing

Trade Policy, Inequality and Performance in Indian Manufacturing

1st Edition

By Kunal Sen
October 15, 2008

The relationship between trade policy and economic performance is one of the oldest controversies in economic development. In recent years, there has been a revival of interest in the debate on the implications of trade reforms for productivity growth and domestic pricing behaviour due in part to ...

The Puzzle of India's Governance Culture, Context and Comparative Theory

The Puzzle of India's Governance: Culture, Context and Comparative Theory

1st Edition

By Subrata K. Mitra
April 03, 2008

India no longer gets an easy ride as the world's largest democracy. Spectacular terrorist attacks on its Parliament and places of worship, communal riots of unprecedented ferocity, lingering separatist insurgency and violent caste conflict in impoverished regions have combined to cause a closer ...

Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism

Coalition Politics and Hindu Nationalism

1st Edition

Edited By Katharine Adeney, Lawrence Saez
September 18, 2006

This new collection examines the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India and the ways in which its Hindu nationalist agenda has been affected by the constraints of being a dominant member of a coalition government.Religious influence in contemporary politics offers a fertile ground ...

Perception, Politics and Security in South Asia The Compound Crisis of 1990

Perception, Politics and Security in South Asia: The Compound Crisis of 1990

1st Edition

By P. R. Chari, Pervias Iqbal Cheema, Stephen Philip Cohen
May 16, 2003

This book provides a detailed examination of the compound crisis between India and Pakistan that brought the region to the brink of a nuclear war in 1990. Placing the crisis in the context of concurrent international events such as the fall of the Soviet Union, the authors draw out the lesson for ...

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