Book Series in Asian Studies
Critical Asian Studies
New & Published Titles:
Beyond Crisis
Re-evaluating Pakistan
Through the essays in this volume, we see how the failure of the state becomes a moment to ruminate on the artificiality of this most…
read moreFebruary 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48063-5 (Routledge India)
Shared Histories of Modernity
China, India and the Ottoman Empire
While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48166-3 (Routledge India)
Enchantments of Modernity
Empire, Nation, Globalization
2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44552-8 (Routledge India)
Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns
An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India
This book is an anthropological study located along India’s western border with Pakistan. The core arguments are situated within the context of contemporary religious nationalism,…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44556-6 (Routledge India)
The Intimate State
Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi
This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of… read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44604-4 (Routledge India)
Living With Violence
An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life
This book gives a detailed account of the ‘communal riots’ between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93. It departs from the historiography of the…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43080-7 (Routledge India)