Books in the Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies series

Examines how India has been able to sustain democratic governance while undergoing substantial social, economic and political changes through a neo-institutional rational choice model of governance, bounded by local culture and context.

This book examines the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ways in which its Hindu nationalist agenda was affected by the constraints of being a dominant member of a coalition government.

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 and places the crisis in the context of concurrent international events.

Presents and analyses the sub-national war of postcolonial South Asia, between the Indian state and the Nagas of Northeast India. This book offers a political history on the Naga region over three periods, pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial. It is suitable for students and scholars of politics, history, anthropology and South Asian studies.

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.

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, this book demonstrates how party leaders can exercise their agency and drive party system change.

Social exclusion and inclusion are issues of fundamental importance to democracy. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book examines at the multidimensional problems of social exclusion and inclusion, and the long-term issues facing contemporary Indian democracy.

Most studies on nations and nationalism argue that history, or more precisely a 'common past', is crucial for the process of national identity building. This book focuses on the construction, elaboration and negotiation of the narratives that have become official history in India.

Deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams with a particular focus on the Narmada case in India. This book shows how local demands for resettlement and rehabilitation were transformed into a radical anti-dam campaign linked to national and transnational movement networks.

Presenting a framework that incorporates macro-level forces into micro-level strategic calculations, this book explains key political choices by leaders and challengers in Pakistan through the political survival mechanism. It offers an explanation for continuing polity weakness in the country.