Routledge India imprint: 457 books
The Entrepreneur’s Choice
Cases on Family Business in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are integral to the economic policy framework of India, and promote innovation, competition and equitable economic development. Comprehensively examining the management of family businesses among MSMEs, this book:
• discusses business strategy,...
Dance Matters
Performing India on Local and Global Stages
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This volume presents a multidisciplinary perspective on dance scholarship and practice as they have evolved in India and its diaspora, outlining how dance histories have been written and re-written, how aesthetic and pedagogical conventions have changed and are changing, and how politico-economic...
From Temple to Museum
Colonial Collections and Umā Maheśvara Icons in the Middle Ganga Valley
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose...
Dance Matters Too
Markets, Memories, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India. It forges new avenues of scholarly inquiry and critical engagement and opens the field in innovative ways. This volume builds on Dance Matters (2009), which mapped the...
Re-Imagining Sociology in India
Feminist Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018
This book maps the intersections between sociology and feminism in the Indian context. It retrieves the lives and work of women pioneers of and in sociology, asking crucial questions of their feminisms and their sociologies. The chapters address the experiential realities of women in the field, pedagogical...
Indian Ocean and Maritime Security
Competition, Cooperation and Threat
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book provides a synoptic view of the Indian Ocean and maritime security in its contested waters. Using a historical approach, it reveals vital links to events in the present day. The volume:
Highlights the competition between major Asian powers to control the ‘String of Pearls’ —...
by Aparna Devare
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Taking the contentious debates surrounding historical evidence and history writing between secularists and Hindu nationalists as a starting point, this book seeks to understand the origins of a growing historical consciousness in contemporary India, especially amongst Hindus. The broad question it...
Gandhi
An Impossible Possibility
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
For a man who made such a powerful intervention in the history of the 20th century, many of Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas were misunderstood or obfuscated during his lifetime. This book draws our attention to Gandhi’s last years, particularly the marked change in his understanding of the acceptance of...
On Modern Indian Sensibilities
Culture, Politics, History
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2017
This book consists of incisive and imaginative readings of culture, politics, and history – and their intersections – in eastern India from the 16th to the 20th century. Focusing especially on Assam, Odisha, Bengal, and their margins, the volume explores Indo-Islamic cultures of rule as located...
Spirals of Contention
Why India was Partitioned in 1947
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This study examines the social and psychological processes that led to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. It recognizes the long-term continuities in the idiom of conflict (as well as cooperation), and shows that, by 1900, the conflicts and animosities were gathering a self-aggravating...
Tracking the Media
Interpretations of Mass Media Discourses in India and Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2009
This book is about media content analysis in the English language print media in South Asia, with reference to certain contemporary issues. It is written from the perspective of the need to analyze media discourses and the ways in which their circulation creates a ‘common sense’ view of the world....
Muslim Politics in Bihar
Changing Contours
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
This book studies the engagement of various Muslim communities with Bihar politics from colonial times to present-day India. It debunks several myths in highlighting Muslim resistance to the Two-Nation theory, and counters the ‘Isolation Syndrome’ faced by Muslim communities after Independence....
by Sarah Beth Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This study explores how Dalits in north India have used literature as a means of protest against caste oppression. Including fresh ethnographic research and interviews, it traces the trajectory of modern Dalit writing in Hindi and its pivotal role in the creation, rise and reinforcement of a distinctive...
Sino-Indian and Sino-South Korean Relations
Comparisons and Contrasts
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
This book addresses the compulsions that underlie the China’s relations with India and South Korea— both increasingly mutually dependent on China for markets, trade, investments, technology, tourism, etc. It inquires into two sets of regional relationships, with China being the common linking...