Routledge India imprint: 457 books

Salaam Bollywood

Representations and interpretations

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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016

This book traces the journey of popular Hindi cinema from 1913 to contemporary times when Bollywood has evolved as a part of India’s cultural diplomacy. Avoiding a linear, developmental narrative, the book re-examines the developments through the ruptures in the course of cinematic history. The...

The Democratic Predicament

Cultural Diversity in Europe and India

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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014

Both India and Europe have been undergoing a difficult process of negotiating cultural, religious and ethnic diversity within their democratic frameworks. In fact, recent incidents of xenophobic backlash against multiculturalism and minority communities in Europe, as well as myriad movements for constitutional...

Digital Queer Cultures in India

Politics, Intimacies and Belonging

by Rohit K. Dasgupta
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017

Sexuality in India offers an expression of nationalist anxieties and is a significant marker of modernity through which subjectivities are formed among the middle class. This book investigates the everyday experience of queer Indian men on digital spaces. It explores how queer identities are formed...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018

The relationship between men and feminism is frequently assumed to be antagonistic. This volume confronts this assumption by bringing critical attention to men’s engagement in feminist research, pedagogy, and activism in India. The chapters in this collection respond to two broad thematic concerns:...

Writing India, Writing English

Literature, Language, Location

by G. J. V. Prasad
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014

The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book deals with the pressure that English language has exerted, and continues to exert, in India...

Interrogating International Relations

India's Strategic Practice and the Return of History

by Jayashree Vivekanandan
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012

The book interrogates the disciplinary biases and firewalls that inform mainstream international relations today, and problematises the several tropes that have come to typify the strategic histories of post-colonial societies such as India. Questioning a range of long-held cultural representations...
by Daniel Michon
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015

This book explores the ways in which past cultures have been used to shape colonial and postcolonial cultural identities. It provides a theoretical framework to understand these processes, and offers illustrative case studies in which the agency of ancient peoples, rather than the desires of antiquarians and archaeologists, is brought to the fore.

Rethinking Indian Jurisprudence

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law

by Aakash Singh Rathore, Garima Goswamy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018

What is law? What is the source of law? What is the law for? How does law differ from other norms or codes of conduct? What is the difference between law and morality? Who is obligated to follow the law and why? What is the difference between moral and legal obligation? This book addresses...

Pandita Ramabai

Life and landmark writings

by Meera Kosambi
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016

This book looks at the life of Pandita Ramabai, one of the major social reformers of 19th-century India. Her unique life trajectory spanned across a pan-Indian, orthodox Hindu mould to being part of Brahmo Samaj and Prarthana Samaj, and further to Christianity. At the age of 30 she had travelled widely...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2017

This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements....

Critical Humanities from India

Contexts, Issues, Futures

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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018

The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally addressed the questions of what is proper to man, rights of man, crimes against humanity, human creativity and action, human reflection and performance, human utterance and artefact. The university as a philosophical-political institution...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014

This volume looks at the ways in which governance in the exercise of its strategies also acts as a process of production of subjects. It argues that governance is not a one-sided affair starting and ending with those who rule and govern, producing fiats, decrees, and diktats, but a productive process...

Nation, Diaspora, Trans-nation

Reflections from India

by Ravindra K. Jain
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012

A premier debate in the present conjuncture of globalization has been the prospect of ‘post nation’ and the obsolescence of patriotism at the horizon of transnationalism. In an ethnographically rich and discursively sharp intervention R. K. Jain articulates the contribution that diaspora studies...
by Sudhanshu Ranjan
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014

This book offers an innovative approach to studying ‘judicial activism’ in the Indian context in tracing its history and relevance since 1773. While discussing the varying roles of the judiciary, it delineates the boundaries of different organs of the State — judiciary, executive and legislature...
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