Routledge India imprint: 457 books
Undernutrition and Public Policy in India
Investing in the future
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Despite substantial economic growth, India has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world’s stunted children. This volume assesses the status and causes of undernutrition in the country, and examines the effectiveness of policies designed...
Vulnerable Daughters in India
Culture, Development and Changing Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
In India, girls are aborted on a massive scale merely because they are girls. Underlying this widespread problem is the puzzling fact that daughters have become vulnerable in a time of general improvement of welfare, female status and deep economic and social changes. The findings centre on a contradiction...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Tribal communities in western India, as elsewhere in the country, have been facing increasing marginalisation and poverty. This is so despite a relatively better record of social movements and work by civil society organisations among them and their political inclusion. Further, the existing literature...
by Ashutosh Kumar Tripathi
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Post-reform India has seen a decline in agricultural growth as well as supply–demand imbalance and rising prices. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of domestic and international prices and trade since 1980–81, covering the past quarter of a century. Backed with rich data, it provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
This book provides a detailed examination of the impact of globalisation on plantation labour, dominated by women labour, in India. The studies presented here highlight the perpetuation of low wages, inferior social status and low human development of workers in this sector and point out the movement...
Informal Markets, Livelihood and Politics
Street vendors in urban India
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Low industrial growth, declining agricultural sector and limited expansion of formal sector employment in India have increasingly forced the poor to take recourse to informal sources of livelihoods. Street vending is one such thriving source of self-employment across cities.
This book delves...
India Migration Report 2019
Diaspora in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
India Migration Report 2019 examines the issues of identity related to integration in European societies. It examines the multifarious nature of social, economic and political engagements of the Indian diaspora with their host societies in Europe.
This volume:
assesses the historical trends...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
A unique and comprehensive study on social science research, this book highlights the status, issues, roadblocks and challenges of the field in India and certain select nations of the world. It conducts key cross-comparisons with existing literature in the area, and discusses aid policies and decisions,...
Climate Change and Agriculture in India
Studies from Selected River Basins
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This book provides an overview of climate change in India using river basin data and analytical and econometric methods. It, first, makes a quantitative assessment of how climate change affects agricultural and food production systems; second, predicts how these systems may respond to climate change;...
Right to Education in India
Resources, institutions and public policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This is one of the first volumes to comprehensively discuss resource constraints and institutional challenges in realizing the Fundamental Right to Education (RTE) in India. It looks at various aspects of the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), the primary vehicle to implement RTE and a flagship programme...
In an Outpost of the Global Economy
Work and Workers in India's Information Technology Industry
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
While much has been written on the growth of information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services in India, little is known about the people who work in these industries, about the nature of the work itself, and about its wider social and cultural ramifications. The papers in this collection combine...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
India has been the focus of international attention in the past few years. Rhetoric concerning its rapid economic growth and the burgeoning middle classes suggests that something new and significant is taking place. Something has changed, we are told: India is shining, the elephant is rising, and...
Youth in India
Aspirations, Attitudes, Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This book explores the attitudes, anxieties and aspirations of India’s burgeoning young population in a globalised world. Drawing upon time-series survey data of the Indian youth aged between 15 and 34 years across 19 Indian states, it provides key insights into a range of themes along with an overview...
Indian Sisters
A History of Nursing and the State, 1907–2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Health and medicine cannot be understood without considering the role of nurses, both as professionals and as working women. In India, unlike other countries, nurses have suffered an exceptional degree of neglect at the hands of state, a situation that has been detrimental to the quality of both rural...