Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies

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]