Knut A. Jacobsen is a Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen, Norway. His most recent book published by Routledge is Yoga in Modern Hinduism (2018) and the co-edited book Religion and Technology in India (2018), and he is the editor of the Routledge Handbook of South Asian Religions (2020).

Chapter 1. Contemporary India: Foundation, relations, diversity, religions and change Part I: Foundation Chapter 2. Partitioning India: Dreams, Memories and Legacies; Chapter 3. Symbiosis and Resilience: The Dynamics of Social Change and Transition to Democracy in India; Chapter 4. Foundations for a Sustainable Growth: India's Constitution and its Supreme Court; Chapter 5. Economic Foundation of India; Chapter 6. Equity, Quantity and Quality: The Precarious Balancing act in India's Schools; Chapter 7. Agriculture and the Development Burden; Chapter 8. From Composite Nationalism to Hindu Majoritarianism: India's Transition Part II India and the World Chapter 9. Politics, Security and Foreign Policy; Chapter 10. Is India a South Asian or an Asian Power? Chapter 11. India's Role as a Global Development Partner; Chapter 12. Dispersals, Migrations, the Notion of an Indian Diaspora and the Diversity of Communities; Chapter 13. Matters That Matter: Material Religion in Contemporary Hinduism; Chapter 14. International networks supporting Hindutva; Chapter 15. Yoga and Physical Culture: Transnational History and Blurred Discursive Contexts Part III Society, Class, Caste and Gender Chapter 16. The Politics of Economic Reforms in India; Chapter 17. Divided We Stand: The Indian City after Economic Liberalisation; Chapter 18. India's Middle Classes in Contemporary India; Chapter 19. Caste: Why Does It Still Matter? Chapter 20. Hindutva and hygiene: Swachh Bharat Mission as an urban spatial purification project; Chapter 21. Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Modern India: History. Patronage, and the Moral Politics of Anti-colonialism; Chapter 22. Regional Perspective: Gujarat and the Contradictory Co-existence of Economic Enterprise and Political Illiberalism; Chapter 23. Intimate Spaces of Struggle: Rethinking Family and Marriage in Contemporary India; Chapter 24. Adivasis and Contemporary India: Engagements with the state, non-state actors and the capitalist economy Part IV Religion and Diversity Chapter 25. Myth as History and History as Myth: The Instructive Case of India; Chapter 26. Hindu Pilgrimage Sites and Travel: Infrastructure, Economy, Identity and Conflicts; Chapter 27. Death of the Sacred: Cow, Caste and Hindu Nationalism; Chapter 28. Hindutva Becoming in the Northeast of India; Chapter 29. Ambedkar's Life and His Navayana Buddhism; Chapter 30. Religion, Identity and Empowerment: The Making of Ravidassia Dharm (Dalit Religion) in Contemporary Punjab; Chapter 31. Muslims in Contemporary India: Socio-religious Diversity and the Questions of Citizenship; Chapter 32. India's Muslim Minority: Religious Violence and Why India's Crime Statistics Cannot be Trusted; Chapter 33. Christians in India: Living on the Margins with a Diverse and Controversial Past Part V Cultural Change and Innovations Chapter 34. 'We Too Have the Sun': Literatures from the Adivasi and Dalit communities of East India; Chapter 35. Combative Constructions of Femininity in the Late Twentieth Century Narratives of India; Chapter 36. Masculinity and Muscularity in a Changing India: Socioeconomic Mobility among New ('Lower') Middle Class Mens; Chapter 37. Changing Food Habits in Contemporary India: Discourses and practices among the middle classes; Chapter 38. Coping with the Diseases of Modernity: The use of siddha medical knowledge and practices to treat patients with diabetes; Index