Books in the Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series series

Offers an explanation for the recurrence of hung parliaments and minority governments in India. This book includes the Indian case study that provides lessons for the role of the centre in multiparty electoral and parliamentary competition and the political consequences of the first-past-the-post electoral system throughout the world.

The privatization of water is a keenly contested issue in an economically liberalizing India. This book assesses the dynamics of water policy processes in India. Using the case study of Delhi's water situation, it analyses dynamics of policy process in India in general and more specifically in the post economic reform era.

Examines India's development through an exploration of the triangular relationship between federalism, nationalism and the development process. This book focuses on one of the seemingly paradoxical cases of impressive development and sharp federal conflicts that have been witnessed in the state of Punjab.

Provides an academic study on the growing Islamist militancy in Bangladesh. This book examines the relevance, significance and trajectories of militant Islamist groups in Bangladesh, exploring the complex web of domestic, regional and international events and dynamics that have both engendered and strengthened Islamist militancy in Bangladesh.

In South Asia and beyond, human development continues to be in a state of crisis. Each successive Human Development Report (HDR) and the pervasive global failure to achieve the Millennium Development Goals are constant reminders of this crisis. This book explores the unevenness of human development with respect to the question of difference.

The dramatic surge in regional integration schemes over the years has been one of the most important developments in world politics. Virtually all countries are now members of at least one regional grouping. This book examines regionalism in South Asia. It also considers the formation and evolution of SAARC.

Analyzes both the economic and cultural sides to globalization in India. This book reveals the complexity of the globalization process and describes the contradictory attitudes of the lower middle classes. It is suitable for students working in the fields of Sociology, Social Anthropology and Development Studies.

Presenting a study of organized labour in India and Pakistan, this work analyzes the impact and role of organized labour in the political and economic development of these two countries.

This book argues that larger flaws in the global supply chain must first be addressed to change the way business is conducted to prevent factory owners from taking deadly risks to meet clients' demands in the garment industry in Bangladesh.

This book offers comparative, historicist, and multidisciplinary views on the role of identity politics in the development of Pakistan. Bringing together perspectives on the dynamics of state-building, the book provides insights into contemporary processes of national contestation, and highlights how ethnicity and identity politics are an enduring marker in Pakistani politics, and why they are increasingly powerful and influential. This book on Pakistan will be a useful contribution to South Asian Politics, South Asian History, and Islamic Studies.

Revisiting the study of South Asians in Britain and beyond, this book looks at the concept of diaspora by probing the ways in which the South Asian diaspora could be re-conceptualised as comprising communities whose identity, on both individual and collective levels, is grounded in a sense of rooted and connected locations that do not necessarily privilege the homeland.

This book analyses the Pakistani judiciary through the important lens of comparative politics. It uses the counter-examples of India and the United States in order to present a justiciability standard and procedure for the Supreme Court of Pakistan to adopt.

State re-scaling is the central concept mobilized in this book to interpret the political processes that are producing new economic spaces in India. In the quarter century since economic reforms were introduced, the Indian economy has experienced strong growth accompanied by extensive sectoral and spatial restructuring. This book argues that in this reformed institutional context, where both state spaces and economic geographies are being rescaled, subnational states play an increasingly critical role in coordinating socioeconomic activities.

This book advances knowledge on the global debate on the migration-development relationship by documenting experiences in a number of countries in South Asia. It discusses the impact of migration on the social, economic, and political fields in the broader context of development and analyses the role South Asian migrants and diaspora communities play in the South Asian society. Contributions from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, including sociology, anthropology, political science, international relations and economics, document the development implications of South Asian migration.

Literary, cinematic and media representations of the disputed category of the `South Asian Muslim¿ have undergone substantial change in the last few decades and in particular since the events of September 11, 2001.

This book analyses the relationship between cinema and modernity in Bangladesh. It investigates the roles of a non-western 'national' film industry in Asia in constructing nationhood and identity within colonial and postcolonial predicaments, and analyses the political, economic and cultural forces that have been active in shaping Bangladesh cinema. The author explores how the conflict among different social groups turned Bangladesh cinema into a site of contesting identities during the twentieth century and beyond.

This book discusses and analyses the legal system of Bangladesh. It studies the various weaknesses and whether the judiciary of the country is really independent.

Compulsory land acquisition and involuntary displacement of communities for a larger public purpose captures the tension of development in the modern state, with the need to balance the interests of the majority while protecting the rights of the minority.This book examines a number of new policy formulations put in place at both the central and state levels looking at land acquisition procedures and norms for rehabilitation and resettlement of communities.

Bengal has long been one of the key centres of civilisation and culture in the Indian subcontinent. However, Bengali identity ΓÇô "Bengaliness" ΓÇô is complicated by its long history of evolution, the fact that Bengal is now divided between India and Bangladesh, and by virtue of a very large international diaspora from both parts of Bengal. This book explores a wide range of issues connected with Bengali identity. Amongst other subjects, it considers the special problems arising as a result of the division of Bengal, and concludes by demonstrating that there are many factors which make for the idea of a Bengali identity.