Perspectives on Modern South Asia: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405100625)

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
ISBN-10: 1405100621
ISBN-13: 9781405100625
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2011
Pages: 396
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.90w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 32