Routledge India imprint: 457 books
Doing Gender, Doing Geography
Emerging Research in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Until the 1970s gender had been invisible in analyses of social space and place in the androcentric discipline of geography. While recent contributions to feminist geography have challenged this, in India the engagement of geographers with gender, by being conservative in its choice of focus and orthodox...
Undermining Local Democracy
Parallel Governance in Contemporary South India
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Focusing on Karnataka in India, this study examines the implications of the model of development sought to be introduced in the entire country through the governance reforms of the post-1991 period — a model that bypasses Panchayat Raj institutions (PRIs), resulting in a majority of the population...
Hindu–Muslim Relations
What Europe Might Learn from India
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
This book reconstructs Hindu–Muslim relations from a European standpoint. Drawing from the Indian context, the author explores options for Western Europe – a region grappling with the refugee crisis and populist reactions to the growth of Muslim minorities.
The author shows how India can...
Handbook of Indian Defence Policy
Themes, Structures and Doctrines
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
India has the world’s fourth largest military and one of the biggest defence budgets. It asserts its political and military profile in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region. The nation has been in the midst of an ambitious plan to modernize its largely Soviet-era arms since the late 1990s and has...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This volume brings together critical and landmark studies in Indian migration.
Covers a range of key themes — emigration policy in countries of destination and origin, development and remittances, gender issues, impact of the global financial crisis, conflict, and inclusive growth
Looks...
Biodiversity
Law, Policy and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Conservation of biodiversity is a fundamental concern towards securing a sustainable future. This volume argues that despite various domestic and international policies and legal frameworks on biodiversity conservation — be it forest, wildlife, marine, coastal, etc. — their implementation suffers...
Indian Genre Fiction
Pasts and Future Histories
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially science fiction/fantasy have slowly made their way...
Margins of Citizenship
Muslim Experiences in Urban India
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Part of the ‘Religion and Citizenship’ series, this book is an ethnographic study of marginality of Muslims in urban India. It explores the realities and consequences of socio-spatial segregation faced by Muslim communities and the various ways in which they negotiate it in the course of their...
The Emergency and the Indian English Novel
Memory, Culture and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2019
This book examines the cultural trauma of the Indian Emergency through a reading of five seminal novels. It discusses the Emergency as an event that prompted the writing of several notable novels attempting to preserve the silenced and fading memory of its human rights violations and suspension of...
Eloquent Spaces
Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India. It presents a new perspective on the principles and practices of early Indian architecture.
Defining it broadly over a range of space uses, the book argues for architecture...
Communities of Women in Assam
Being, doing and thinking together
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book uses communities of women as a framework for reading women’s experience, rights and aspirations in Assam and Northeast India. It explores the varying roles played by such communities in the formation of society, the emergence of a women’s public sphere and the representation of these...
Language, Gender and Ideology
Constructions of Femininity for Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This book explores multiple facets of femininity for marriage in India. Using language as an entry point, it looks at how and why media representations of gender identities are constructed the way they are. It works with a unique synthesis of second-wave feminist discourse and empirical linguistic...
Buddha to Krishna
Life and Times of George Keyt
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book traces the emergence of modernism in art in South Asia by exploring the work of the iconic artist George Keyt. Closely interwoven with his life, Keyt’s art reflects the struggle and triumph of an artist with very little support or infrastructure. He painted as he lived: full of colour,...
Between Love and Freedom
The Revolutionary in the Hindi Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Between Love and Freedom interprets the figure of the revolutionary in the Hindi novel by establishing its lineage in representative Bengali novels, as well as in the contending moralities of Mahatma Gandhi and Bhagat Singh on the idea of violence. It reveals how conventional social realism and emergent...