Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka: Contemporary Themes
Convenor: TBC
This lecture course will give students an introduction to important topics in non-India, contemporary South Asia. Lectures may be framed around a particular country but will be explicitly comparative in perspective. A uniting theme will be to think about what contribution Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal make to our understanding of the social sciences.
The course will also be valuable in pushing students to think about South Asia beyond the regional hegemon, India. The course will cut across disciplines and encourage students to think in inter-disciplinary terms.
Topics will include: the political economy of South Asian growth in a comparative perspective; ethnicity, conflict and violence in South Asia; electoral democracy in South Asia: contrasts and comparisons.
Take a look at...
Adeney, Katherine (2012) ‘A Step towards Inclusive Federalism in Pakistan? The politics of the 18th Amendment’ Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Vol 42, No 4: 439-565
Pokharel, Bhojraj (2012) Elections: A Nepali perspective in Einsiendel, Sebastian von Malone, David & Pradhan, Suman Nepal in Transition: From People’s War to Fragile Peace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Ahmed, Samina. "Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program: Turning Points and Nuclear Choices." International Security 23.4 (1999): 178-204.
Destradi, Sandra. “India and the Civil War in Sri Lanka: On the Failures of Regional Conflict Management in South Asia”, GIGA Working Papers, No. 154 (December 2010).
Shafqat Hussain, 2015. Remoteness and Modernity: Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Sen, K and S.Kar (2014), ‘Boom and Bust? A Political Economy Reading of India’s Growth Experience, 1993-2013’, IEG Working Paper No 342, New Delhi.
Kabeer, N and S.Mahmud (2004), ‘Globalisation, Gender and Poverty: Bangladesh Women Workers in Export and Local Markets’, Journal of International Development, 16, p93-109.
Kelegama, S (2009),’ Ready-made Garment Exports from Sri Lanka’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 39:4, p579-596.
