Routledge handbook of South Asian politics: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal/ edited by Paul R. Brass. - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : New York : Routledge, 2010. - xvi, 464 p. ; 26 cm.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: India and Pakistan
Chapter 3: Sri Lanka’s independence
Chapter 4: Political change, political structure, and the Indian state since Independence
Chapter 5: State-level politics, coalitions, and rapid system change in India
Chapter 6: Pakistan’s politics and its economy
Chapter 7: Party overinstitutionalization, contestation, and democratic degradation in Bangladesh
Chapter 8: Politics and governance in post-independence Sri Lanka
Chapter 9: Nepal Download PDF
Chapter 10: The old and the new federalism in independent India
Chapter 11: India’s judiciary
Chapter 12: Balancing act
Chapter 13: Confronting constitutional curtailments
Chapter 14: Executive sovereignty
Chapter 15: Politics of language in India
Chapter 16: Language problems and politics in Pakistan
Chapter 17: Crises of national unity in India
Chapter 18: Communal and caste politics and conflicts in India
Chapter 19: Ethnic and Islamic militancy in Pakistan
Chapter 20: Ethnic conflict and the civil war in Sri Lanka
Chapter 21: The political economy of development in India since Independence
Chapter 22: The political economy of agrarian change in India
Chapter 23: Economic development and sociopolitical change in Sri Lanka since Independence
Chapter 24: The militaries of South Asia
Chapter 25: Corruption and the criminalization of politics in South Asia
Chapter 26: Radical and violent political movements
Chapter 27: International politics of South Asia

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