South Asian Culture & Society

The book engages key concepts in the social sciences, through the prism of gender and masculinity, and the way these interact with other forms of inequality, as well as wider prevailing discourses and practices of Nationalism, Development, Colonialism, Migration, Modernity and Religion._x005F_x000D_..

By bringing together papers that focus on plural imaginings of the region, the book throws light on the importance of the region rather than the nation for Punjabi diasporas. The essays in the special issue demonstrate the connections of the Punjabi diaspora with the Punjab region that is imagined a..

By bringing together papers that focus on plural imaginings of the region, the book throws light on the importance of the region rather than the nation for Punjabi diasporas. The essays in the special issue demonstrate the connections of the Punjabi diaspora with the Punjab region that is imagined a..

The essays in this volume explore the ways in which individual scholars, intellectuals and men of religion negotiated the boundaries between discipline, sect, lineage and community as they moved through different social milieux in early modern India: courtly centres, temples, sectarian monasteries, ..

South Asia is famous for its monuments, past and present. Mouments have created, destroyed and resued by competing communities and incoming empires in the making of history, identity and memory. This collection interrogages the legacies and afterlives of the vast diversity of monuments (and concepti..

Bangladesh is not one of the countries with the greatest emissions of carbon, but it is nevertheless one of the countries most critically affected, with a significant risk of damage to lives and livelihoods due to climate change. This book assesses the impact of climate change in Bangladesh. It outl..

Examining the work of three directors from West Bengal, this book addresses the juxtaposition of tradition and culture regarding women in Bengali cinema. It argues the antithesis of women’s roles, particularly in terms of ideas of resistance, revolution, change, and autonomy, by suggesting they conv..

_x005F_x000D_ Set in urban India, the book discusses changing educational landscapes in the South Indian city of Kochi, a local hub for trade, tourism, and cosmopolitan middle-class lifestyles. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the author examines the way education features as a major way t..