Routledge India imprint: 457 books
'How Best Do We Survive?'
A Modern Political History of the Tamil Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book traces the social and political history of the Muslims of south India from the later nineteenth century to Independence in 1947, and the contours that followed. It describes a community in search of political survival amidst an ever-changing climate, and the fluctuating fortunes it had in...
BCIM Economic Cooperation
Interplay of Geo-economics and Geo-politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
This book examines the strategic and economic logic behind the Bangladesh–China–India–Myanmar (BCIM) Regional Cooperation. According to estimates, BCIM covers approximately 9 percent of the world’s mass and 40 percent of the world’s population spanning across four countries, constituting...
Witnessing Partition
Memory, History, Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2019
This book interrogates representations – fiction, literary motifs and narratives – of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai, among many others, it highlights the modes of ‘fictive’...
Development Dramas
Reimagining Rural Political Action in Eastern India
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Witnessing Partition
Memory, History, Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Between Ethics and Politics
New Essays on Gandhi
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Is it possible to build an authentically democratic system in politics without concrete ethical foundations? Addressing this question in the wake of the contemporary crisis in democracy worldwide, the volume re-evaluates Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi’s key thoughts. It foregrounds their relevance to...
by Pramod K. Nayar
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
For two hundred years India was the jewel in the British imperial crown. During the course of governing India – the Raj – a number of words came to have particular meanings in the imperial lexicon. This book documents the words and terms that the British used to describe, define, understand and...
Troubled Testimonies
Terrorism and the English novel in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Since the 9/11 attacks terror has established its permeating hold on society’s psyche. Creative writing, a popular and visible cultural witness to the strain, has taken up this destabilization with remarkable regularity. Troubled Testimonies focuses on the Indian novel in English, deriving inspiration...
Head and Heart
Valour and Self-Sacrifice in the Art of India
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
An extensive study of self-sacrificial images in Indian art, this book examines concepts such as head-offering, human sacrifice, blood, suicide, valour, self-immolation, and self-giving in the context of religion and politics to explore why these images were produced and how they became paradigms of heroism.
Gandhi and Tagore
Politics, truth and conscience
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This book brings together the political thought of Gandhi and Tagore to examine the relationship between politics, truth and conscience. It explores truth and conscience as viable public virtues with regard to two exemplars of ethical politics, addressing in turn the concerns of an evolving modern...
by Velayutham Saravanan
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This book offers a bird’s eye view of the economic and environmental history of the Indian peninsula during colonial era. It analyses the nature of colonial land revenue policy, commercialisation of forest resources, consequences of coffee plantations, intrusion into tribal private forests and tribal-controlled...
Emerging China
Prospects of Partnership in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This volume seeks to examine the evolving contours of Asian multilateralism through emerging China and how it is likely to impact on the growth trajectories of Asian countries. From this perspective, it explores the prospects for ‘partnership’ in Asia, especially in terms of China’s engagement...
India’s Biennale Effect
A politics of contemporary art
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
India’s Kochi-Muziris Biennale has been described as one of the most significant newly emergent biennales, alongside Shanghai, Sharjah and Dakar. However, there have been few sustained and critical studies of these events as specific sites of production and reception of contemporary art.
This...
Criminal Capital
Violence, Corruption and Class in Industrial India
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Criminal Capital explores the relationship between neoliberalism, criminality and the reshaping of class in modern India. It discusses how the political vocabularies of urban industrial workers reflect the processes by which power is distributed across the region. Based upon field research among a...