LEADER 04321nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910811678903321 005 20240819183927.0 010 $a1-134-07858-7 010 $a1-282-64009-7 010 $a1-78034-803-7 010 $a9786612640094 010 $a0-203-87818-3 035 $a(CKB)2560000000009995 035 $a(EBL)530336 035 $a(OCoLC)642661372 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000398142 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11287136 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000398142 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10362625 035 $a(PQKB)11562634 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC530336 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL530336 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10394469 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL264009 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000009995 100 $a20081028d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aRoutledge handbook of South Asian politics $eIndia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal /$fedited by Paul R. Brass 210 1$aMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (481 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-136-72048-0 311 $a0-415-43429-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Independence in South Asia: India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka; 2 India and Pakistan; 3 Sri Lanka's independence: Shadows over a colonial graft; Part II: Political change, political parties, and the issue of unitary vs federal forms of government; 4 Political change, political structure, and the Indian state since Independence; 5 State-level politics, coalitions, and rapid system change in India; 6 Pakistan's politics and its economy 327 $a7 Party overinstitutionalization, contestation, and democratic degradation in Bangladesh8 Politics and governance in post-independence Sri Lanka; 9 Nepal: Trajectories of democracy and restructuring of the state; 10 The old and the new federalism in independent India; Part III: The judiciary; 11 India's judiciary: Imperium in imperio?; 12 Balancing act: Prudence, impunity, and Pakistan's jurisprudence; 13 Confronting constitutional curtailments: Attempts to rebuild independence of the judiciary in Bangladesh; 14 Executive sovereignty: The judiciary in Sri Lanka 327 $aPart IV: Pluralism and national integration: Language issues15 Politics of language in India; 16 Language problems and politics in Pakistan; Part V: Crises of national unity; 17 Crises of national unity in India: Punjab, Kashmir, and the northeast; 18 Communal and caste politics and conflicts in India; 19 Ethnic and Islamic militancy in Pakistan; 20 Ethnic conflict and the civil war in Sri Lanka; Part VI: Political economy; 21 The political economy of development in India since Independence; 22 The political economy of agrarian change in India 327 $a23 Economic development and sociopolitical change in Sri Lanka since IndependencePart VII: Comparative chapters; 24 The militaries of South Asia; 25 Corruption and the criminalization of politics in South Asia; 26 Radical and violent political movements; 27 International politics of South Asia; Glossary; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThe Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics examines key issues in politics of the five independent states of the South Asian region: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Written by experts in their respective areas, this Handbook introduces the reader to the politics of South Asia by presenting the prevailing agreements and disagreements in the literature. In the first two sections, the Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the modern political history of the states of the region and an overview of the independence movements in 607 $aSouth Asia$xPolitics and government 701 $aBrass$b Paul R.$f1936-$0303711 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811678903321 996 $aRoutledge handbook of South Asian politics$94015501 997 $aUNINA