Politics of Modern South Asia, (5 Volume Set)

Comprising the states of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, South Asia has gained considerable international visibility over the past decade. Nuclear proliferation, the rapid evolution of India as a major global economic player, the emergence of new markets, cross-border terrorism, and issues of climate change and the environment are prominent among the factors that have contributed to the growing importance of the region. This has led to a commensurate growth of interest in the modern politics of South Asia, and a vast expansion of in scholarly work.

This new five-volume collection from Routledge brings together the best and most influential research to make sense of this ever-expanding corpus. And while each of the five volumes has been carefully designed by the collection’s editor to be self-contained, they are also helpfully linked to one another through a general introduction (which places the assembled materials in their intellectual and historical context), cross-referencing, a general index, and an annotated bibliography of further readings.

Each of the five volumes is organized around the following themes: History, Political Theory and Institutions; Society, Religion, Political Culture, and Movements; Political Economy (in two parts: volumes 3 and 4); and International Relations to provide a readily accessible and comprehensive research and pedagogic resource which will be especially welcomed by scholars, students, policy-makers, and anyone else with a serious interest in the politics of this fascinating region.

Volume I : State and Institutions

Part 1 : The Post-colonial State and The Challenge of Legitimacy
Chapter 1 : Presidential Address : State Formation in Asia - Prolegomenon to a Comparative Study’, The Journal of Asian Studies
Chapter 2 : The Puzzle of Indian Democracy : A Consociational Interpretation’, The American Political Science Review
Chapter 3 : The Formation of The Concept of Nation-State in Nepal’, The Journal of Asian Studies

Part 2 : The Structure and Process of Post-independence Politics
Chapter 4 : The Congress "System" in India’, Asian Survey
Chapter 5 : The Indian Congress Party : A Dilemma of Dominance’, Modern Asian Studies
Chapter 6 : Traditional Role Performance and The Development of Modern Political Parties : The Indian Case’, The Journal of Politics
Chapter 7 : The Ecology of Peasant Communism in India’, The American Political Science Review
Chapter 8 : Succession in India 1967 : The Routinization of Political Change’, Asian Survey

Part 3 : The Unravelling of The State
Chapter 9 : A Theory of Governmental Instability in Parliamentary Systems’, Comparative Political Studies
Chapter 10 : A Season of Caesars : Emergency Regimes and Development Politics in Asia’, Asian Survey
Chapter 11 : On The Crisis of Political Institutions in India’, Contributions to Indian Sociology

Part 4 : The Recovery of Order
Chapter 12 : The Puzzle of Indian Politics : Social Cleavages and The Indian Party System’, British Journal of Political Science
Chapter 13 : Constitutional Centring : Nation Formation and Consociational Federalism in India and Pakistan’, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
Chapter 14 : Redrawing The Body Politic : Federalism, Regionalism and The Creation of New States in India’, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
Chapter 15 : Rethinking The Developmental State Model : Divided Leviathan and Subnational Comparisons in India’, Comparative Politics
Chapter 16 : Is India Becoming More Democratic?’, The Journal of Asian Studies
Chapter 17 : Elite Agency and Governance in Changing Societies : India in Comparative Perspective’, Asian Journal of Political Science

Part 5 : India’s South Asian Neighbours
Chapter 18 : The Paradox of Military Rule in Pakistan’, Asian Survey
Chapter 19 : Bangladesh in 2002 : Imperiled Democracy’, Asian Survey
Chapter 20 : Politics in Ceylon Since 1952’, Pacific Affairs
Chapter 21 : Channelling Ethnicity through Electoral Reforms in Sri Lanka’, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
Chapter 22 : Political Reform in Bhutan : Change in a Buddhist Monarchy’, Asian Survey

Volume II : State and Society

Part 6 : Social Change : From Hierarchy to Equality
Chapter 23 : Caste in Modern India’, The Journal of Asian Studies
Chapter 24 : Secularism in Its Place’, The Journal of Asian Studies
Chapter 25 : Varna Schemes and Ideological Integration in Indian Society’, Comparative Studies in Society and History
Chapter 26 : The Mahatma and Modern India’, Modern Asian Studies
Chapter 27 : The Modernity of Tradition : The Democratic Incarnation of Caste in India’, The American Political Science Review
Chapter 28 : Consensus and Conflict in Indian Politics’, World Politics
Chapter 29 : Law and Caste in Modern India’, Asian Survey

Part 7 : Subaltern Agency
Chapter 30 : The Culture of Indian Politics : A Stock Taking’, The Journal of Asian Studies
Chapter 31 : The Rational Politics of Cultural Nationalism : Subnational Movements of South Asia in Comparative Perspective’, British Journal of Political Science
Chapter 32 : Confronting Constructionism : Ending India’s Naga War’, Journal of Peace Research
Chapter 33 : Women and Movement Politics in India’, Asian Survey
Chapter 34 : The Rise of The OTher Backward Classes in The Hindi Belt’, The Journal of Asian Studies
Chapter 35 : Origins of Nativism : The Emergence of Shiv Sena in Bombay’, Asian Survey
Chapter 36 :  "Ethnicity" and Politics in India’, International Affairs
Chapter 37 : The Sikhs as a "Minority" in a Sikh Majority State in India’, Asian Survey
Chapter 38 : India, Consociational Theory, and Ethnic Violence’, Asian Survey

Part 8 : Modernity at Risk? Variations on an Indian Theme
Chapter 39 : Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka and Sinhalese Perspectives : Barriers to Accommodation’, Modern Asian Studies
Chapter 40 : Collective Violence and Everyday Practice in Sri Lanka’, Modern Asian Studies
Chapter 41 : Center-Periphery Relations and Ethnic Conflict in Pakistan : Sindhis, Muhajirs, and Punjabis’, Comparative Politics
Chapter 42 : The State and Civil Society in Pakistan : From Crisis to Crisis’, Asian Survey
Chapter 43 : "A Place Insufficiently Imagined" : Language, Belief and The Pakistan Crisis of 1971’, The Journal of Asian Studies

Part 9 : Modernity and Social Change Reconsidered
Chapter 44 : Reflections on Community Conflicts and The State in India’, The Journal of Asian Studies
Chapter 45 : Hindutva Ideology : Extracting The Fundamentals’, Contemporary South Asia
Chapter 46 : Problems of Islamic Political Thought in The Light of Recent Developments in Pakistan’, The Journal of Politics
Chapter 47 : Democracy and Islamic Revivalism’, Political Science Quarterly

Volume III : State and Economy

Part 10 : The ‘Mixed Economy’ and Planned Development
Chapter 48 : Some Political Aspects of Economic Development in India’, World Politics
Chapter 49 : Economic Development in India’, Political Science Quarterly
Chapter 50 : A Political Economy of Foreign Aid : The Case of India’, Asian Survey
Chapter 51 : India’s New Strategy of Agricultural Development : Political Costs of Agrarian Modernization’, The Journal of Asian Studies
Chapter 52 : Innovation Adoption in Indian Agriculture : The High Yielding Varieties Programme’, Modern Asian Studies

Part 11 : Pathologies of The Indian Model
Chapter 53 : The Pyraveekar : "The Fixer" in Rural India’, Asian Survey
Chapter 54 : Room to Maneuver in The Middle : Local Elites, Political Action, and The State in India’, World Politics
Chapter 55 : Regime Types and Poverty Reform in India’, Pacific Affairs
Chapter 56 : Governance, Democracy and Economic Adjustment in India : Conceptual and Empirical Problems’, Third World Quarterly
Chapter 57 : Displacing The Conflict : Environmental Destruction in Bangladesh and Ethnic Conflict in India’, Journal of Peace Research

Part 12 : Liberalizing India’s Economy
Chapter 58 : Economic Reforms in India Since 1991 : Has Gradualism Worked?’, The Journal of Economic Perspectives
Chapter 59 : Managing Competition : Politics and The Building of Independent Regulatory Institutions’, India Review
Chapter 60 : India’s Economic Liberalization, Interjurisdictional Competition and Development’, Contemporary South Asia
Chapter 61 : Labor Policy and The Second Generation of Economic Reform in India’, India Review
Chapter 62 : The Causes and Consequences of India’s IT Boom’, India Review
Chapter 63 : Iconisation of Chandrababu : Sharing Sovereignty in India’s Federal Market Economy’, Economic and Political Weekly

Volume IV : State and Economy

Part 13 : Liberalization, Globalization, and The Social Sector
Chapter 64 : Public Sector Restructuring and Democracy : The State, Labour and Trade Unions in India’, The Journal of Development Studies
Chapter 65 : Social Stability in India under Globalization and Liberalization’, India Review
Chapter 66 : Indian States and The Making of Foreign Economic Policy : The Limits of The Constituent Diplomacy Paradigm’, Publius : The Journal of Federalism
Chapter 67 : Sino-Indian Growth and Liberalisation : A Survey’, Asian Survey

Part 14 : Political Economy of India’s Neighbours
Chapter 68 : Economic Liberalization Versus Political Pluralism in Sri Lanka?’, Modern Asian Studies
Chapter 69 : The Problem of Regional Imbalance in The Economic Development of Pakistan, Asian Survey
Chapter 70 : Economy, Society and The State in Pakistan’, Contemporary South Asia
Chapter 71 : Challenges to Developing The Economy of Nepal’, Contemporary South Asia
Chapter 72 : The Bhutanese Economy in Transition’, Asian Survey
Chapter 73 : Anatomy of Hartal Politics in Bangladesh’, Asian Survey

Volume V : State and International Relations

Part 15 : Panchasheela : Foreign Policy and The Post-colonial State
Chapter 74 : Illusion and Reality in India’s Foreign Policy’, International Affairs
Chapter 75 : India’s Foreign Policy’, International Affairs
Chapter 76 : India’s Foreign Economic Policies’, World Politics
Chapter 77 : India : Noncommitted and Nonaligned’, The Western Political Quarterly
Chapter 78 : The Himalayan Border States : "Buffers" in Transition’, Asian Survey
Chapter 79 : China and India : The Unnegotiated Dispute’, The China Quarterly
Chapter 80 : Anticipation, Disaster, and Victory : India 1962–1971’, Asian Survey
Chapter 81 : Security Issues in South Asia’, Asian Survey

Part 16 : Dilemmas of Non-alignment
Chapter 82 : South Asia’s Security Dilemma’, Asian Survey
Chapter 83 : War and Peace in South Asia : A Revisionist View of India–Pakistan Relations’, Contemporary South Asia

Part 17 : The ‘Realist’ Turn in India’s Foreign Policy?
Chapter 84 : BJP, India’s Foreign Policy and The "Realist Alternative" to The Nehruvian Tradition’, International Politics
Chapter 85 : Nuclear Weapons and Indian Strategic Culture’, Journal of Peace Research
Chapter 86 : India’s Pathway to Pokhran II : The Prospects and Sources of New Delhi’s Nuclear Weapons Program’, International Security
Chapter 87 : Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia : The 1990 Indo–Pakistani Crisis’, International Security
Chapter 88 : The Perils of Proliferation in South Asia’, Asian Survey

Part 18 : Contesting India’s Foreign Policy
Chapter 89 : Ethnic Conflicts in South Asia : The Case of Sri Lanka and The Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF)’, Journal of Peace Research
Chapter 90 : International Politics, Domestic Imperatives, and Identity Mobilization : Sectarianism in Pakistan, 1979–1998’, Comparative Politics

Part 19 : South Asia and Post-cold War International Relations
Chapter 91 : Strategic Stability in South Asia : The Role of Confidence-Building and Threat Reduction Measures’, Contemporary South Asia
Chapter 92 : Cooperation Among Antagonists : Regional Integration and Security in South Asia’, Contemporary South Asia
Chapter 93 : A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment of India as an Emerging World Power’, India Review
Chapter 94 : A Nuclear Third Way in South Asia’, Foreign Policy
Chapter 95 : The Geostrategic Implications of The Indo-American Strategic Partnership’, India Review
Chapter 96 : Prospects for Arms Control and Strategic Stability in South Asia’, Contemporary South Asia

Part 20 : The ‘Regional’ Politics of South Asia
Chapter 97 : SARC, But No "SHARK" : South Asian Regional Cooperation in Perspective’, Pacific Affairs
Chapter 98 : The New Dynamics of Indian Foreign Policy and its Ambiguities’, Irish Studies in International Affairs
Chapter 99 : Conflict Management Strategies in ASEAN : Perspectives for SAARC’, The Pacific Review
Chapter 100 : The Political Economy of Regional Cooperation in South Asia’, Pacific Affairs