Perspectives on Modern South Asia: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation

Perspectives on Modern South Asia presents an exciting core collection of essays drawn from anthropology, literary and cultural studies, history, sociology, economics, and political science to reveal the complexities of a region that is home to a fifth of humanity.

• Presents an interdisciplinary overview of the origins and development of the eight nations comprising modern South Asia: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
• Explores South Asia's common cultures, languages and religions and their relationship to its ethnic and national differences
• Features essays that provide understandings of the central dynamics of South Asia as an important cultural, political, and economic region of the world

Author: Kamala Visweswaran
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 05/06/2011
Pages: 396
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781405100625
ISBN10: 1405100621
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- History | Asia | South | General

About the Author
Kamala Visweswaran is Associate Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography (1994), Uncommon Cultures (2010), and the forthcoming A Thousand Genocides Now: Gujarat in the Modern Imaginary of Violence.