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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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Hindu Nationalism in South India The Rise of Saffron in Kerala

Hindu Nationalism in South India: The Rise of Saffron in Kerala

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Nissim Mannathukkaren
July 18, 2024

Hindu Nationalism in South India engages with a range of factors that shapes the trajectory of Hindu nationalism in Kerala, the southern state of India.  Until recently, Kerala was considered a socio-political exception which had no room for Hindu nationalism. This book questions such Panglossian ...

New Welfare Policy and Democratic Politics in India

New Welfare Policy and Democratic Politics in India

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Prakash Sarangi
June 11, 2024

New Welfare Policy and Democratic Politics in India offers an analysis of India’s welfare policy during the last couple of decades. It looks at how welfare policy making is viewed as a function of party competition and voter mobilization, showing a gradual transformation of political clients into ...

Pathways of Autocratization The Tumultuous Journey of Bangladeshi Politics

Pathways of Autocratization: The Tumultuous Journey of Bangladeshi Politics

1st Edition

By Ali Riaz
December 20, 2023

Pathways of Autocratization addresses contemporary global politics’ one of the most important questions: how does a country regress from a democracy to an autocracy?   This book offers a novel framework for understanding the processes that erode democracy and lead to autocracy and explains a ...

Deconstructing India-Pakistan Relations State Security and Colonial History

Deconstructing India-Pakistan Relations: State Security and Colonial History

1st Edition

By Sanjeev Kumar H. M.
December 14, 2023

This book examines the complex dynamics of India-Pakistan relations, by situating the same in the postcolonial setting of the subcontinent. In pursuit of this, the book analyses the impact of the linkages between the postcolonial processes of state-making and the structuring of political ...

The Changing Dynamics of Civil Military Relations in Pakistan Soldiers of Development

The Changing Dynamics of Civil Military Relations in Pakistan: Soldiers of Development

1st Edition

By Rabia Chaudhry
September 04, 2023

The Changing Dynamics of Civil Military Relations in Pakistan offers a unique insiders’ perspective on the political climate in the country, presenting the challenges established in boundaries of interaction between the state and its military.  This book argues that the prospects of another ...

India’s Grand Strategy and Foreign Policy Strategic Pluralism and Subcultures

India’s Grand Strategy and Foreign Policy: Strategic Pluralism and Subcultures

1st Edition

By Bernhard Beitelmair-Berini
January 09, 2023

The book explores the competing grand strategic worldviews shaping India’s foreign and security policies by analyzing the interaction between normative modern international relations theories and vernacular concepts of statecraft and strategy. To assess the diverse competing ideas which ...

Urban Development and Environmental History in Modern South Asia

Urban Development and Environmental History in Modern South Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Ian Talbot, Amit Ranjan
November 04, 2022

This book provides a pioneering study of the historical interaction between the city and the natural environment from the colonial to the contemporary era in South Asia. The book provides a multidisciplinary analysis examining the environmental history of the city and bringing together ...

Civil-Military Relations and Global Security Governance Strategy, Hybrid Orders and the Case of Pakistan

Civil-Military Relations and Global Security Governance: Strategy, Hybrid Orders and the Case of Pakistan

1st Edition

By Cornelia Baciu
September 26, 2022

This book investigates the relationship between international security governance, democratic civil-military relations and the relevance of strategy, as well as of absolute and relative gains, in norms formation in hybrid orders. Highlighting caveats of the legacy of Huntington’s paradigm of ...

Perspectives on Contemporary Pakistan Governance, Development and Environment

Perspectives on Contemporary Pakistan: Governance, Development and Environment

1st Edition

Edited By Ghulam Ali, Ejaz Hussain
August 01, 2022

This book analyses problems of governance, development and environment affecting contemporary Pakistan; issues that lie at the centre of federal and provincial policy deliberations, formulation and implementation. The book offers a comprehensive assessment of the policies, or lack thereof. Authors...

Radicalization in Pakistan A Critical Perspective

Radicalization in Pakistan: A Critical Perspective

1st Edition

Edited By Muhammad Shoaib Pervez
August 01, 2022

This book offers a critical analysis of radicalization in Pakistan by deconstructing the global and the official state narratives designed to restrain Pakistani radicalization. Chapters are centered around three distinct themes: educational norms, religious practices and geo-political aspects of ...

Society, Resistance and Civil Nuclear Policy in India Nuclearising the State

Society, Resistance and Civil Nuclear Policy in India: Nuclearising the State

1st Edition

By Varigonda Kesava Chandra
August 01, 2022

This book explores how anti-nuclear social movements impact the state’s civil nuclear policy and its implementation by presenting a historical-comparative case study of anti-nuclear movements in India. Drawing on social movement theory and empirical methods, the book demonstrates that the ability ...

The History of British Diplomacy in Pakistan

The History of British Diplomacy in Pakistan

1st Edition

By Ian Talbot
August 01, 2022

This book is the first account of the British diplomatic mission in Pakistan from its foundation at the end of the Raj in 1947 to the ‘War on Terror’. Drawing on original documents and interviews with participants, this book highlights key events and personalities as well as the influence and ...

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