Perspectives on Modern South Asia by Kamala Visweswaran - 9781405100625

Perspectives on Modern South AsiaA Reader in Culture, History, and Representation\nAuthor(s): Kamala Visweswaran\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Wiley-Blackwell\nISBN-13: 9781405100625, 978-1405100625\nSynopsis\nPerspectives 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.\n\nPresents 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\nExplores South Asias common cultures, languages and religions and their relationship to its ethnic and national differences\nFeatures essays that provide understandings of the central dynamics of South Asia as an important cultural, political, and economic regiod