Routledge India imprint: 457 books
Colonial Modernities
Midwifery in Bengal, c.1860–1947
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
The subject of medicalisation of childbirth in colonial India has so far been identified with three major themes: the attempt to reform or ‘sanitise’ the site of birthing practices, establishing lying-in hospitals and replacing traditional birth attendants with trained midwives and qualified female...
The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces
The temple in western India, 2nd century BCE–8th century CE
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This volume focuses on the religious shrine in western India as an institution of cultural integration in the period spanning 200 BCE to 800 CE. It presents an analysis of religious architecture at multiple levels, both temporal and spatial, and distinguishes it as a ritual instrument that integrates...
by Birinder Pal Singh
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book is a major intervention in the understanding of the dynamics of internal migration in South Asia. It traces the historical roots of certain migrant Sikh communities to the south and north-east India; chronicles their social, religious and economic practices; and examines peculiar identity...
Rethinking Economic Development in Northeast India
The Emerging Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Economic development of frontier and remote regions has long been a central theme of development studies. This book examines the development experience in the northeastern region in India in relation to the processes of globalisation and liberalisation of the economy. Bringing together researchers...
Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2010
Growing Left-wing Extremism and Religious Violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
This book examines the major armed conflicts in South Asia. The articles study conflict management, look at the direction the armed conflict is likely to take and provide a set of alternative measures that could be pursued by the actors.
Designed as an annual series, the articles provide a...
Lives of Muslims in India
Politics, Exclusion and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
The fast-consolidating identities along religious and ethnic lines in recent years have considerably ‘minoritised’ Muslims in India. The wide-ranging essays in this volume focus on the intensified exclusionary practices against Indian Muslims, highlighting how, amidst a politics of violence, confusing...
Retro-modern India
Forging the Low-caste Self
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Firmly situated within the analytics of the political economy of a north Indian province, this book explores self-fashioning in pursuit of the modern amongst low-caste Chamars. Challenging existing accounts of national modernity in the non-West, the book argues that subaltern classes shape their own...
Education, Poverty and Gender
Schooling Muslim Girls in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
This book investigates the nature of identity formation among economically backward adolescent Muslim girls in northern India by focusing on the interstitial spaces of the ‘home’ and ‘school’. It examines issues of religion, patriarchy and education, to interrogate the relationship between...
Populism and Power
Farmers’ movement in western India, 1980--2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book traces the entire trajectory of the farmers’ movement in Western India, especially Maharashtra, from the 1980s to the present day. It reveals the fundamental contradictions between populism as an ideology and as political power within the democratic state structure. The volume highlights...
by Ranjit Bhushan
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Why are Maoist, Naxalite and Left extremist movements taking root in the most backward and underdeveloped regions of South Asia? This book examines this multi-layered question in democracies such as India and Nepal through an analysis of these movements as well as their leaderships and ideologies....
Gender, Identity and Violence
Female Deselection in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The missing girls in India are not a new phenomenon. The British passed an Act to check female infanticide more than 100 years ago. Since 1960, India’s birth sex ratios have progressively declined from 994 to 910, implicating life-affecting gender violence. Backed by extensive field research, data...
Education and Empowerment in India
Policies and practices
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book explores the critical linkages between education and empowerment of women, marginalized groups and other disadvantaged sections of society. It:
Provides an overview of educational policies and practices from India’s independence to the present day, and tracks relevant changes and...
Indigeneity, Landscape and History
Adivasi Self-fashioning in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This book engages with notions of self and landscape as manifest in water, forest and land via historical and current perspectives in the context of indigenous communities in India. It also brings processes of identity formation among tribes in Africa and Latin America into relief. Using interconnected...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This book brings together empirical evidences and theoretical perspectives to provide a comprehensive overview of the microfinance sector in India. The essays in the volume:
focus on the application of information and communication technology (ICT) solutions in microfinance institutions to strengthen...