South Asia in the Social Sciences

This series will features monographs incorporating innovative social science research on contemporary South Asia. The emphasis will be on understanding contemporary developments through empirically grounded research that uses unconventional and new sources of information and innovative methods. It will aim to open up new fields and methods of investigation and theoretical construction.

General Editor: Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University
Editorial Board: Pranab Bardhan, University of California, Berkeley; Stuart Corbridge, Durham University; Satish Deshpande, University of Delhi; Christophe Jaffrelot, Centre d’etudes et de recherches internationales, Paris; Nivedita Menon, Jawaharlal Nehru University