Routledge India imprint: 457 books
Pakistan's Political Labyrinths
Military, society and terror
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
This book explores Pakistan from different vantage points. It examines a variety of events in contemporary Pakistan through a comprehensive analysis of identity and power politics; media landscapes; military recruitment; role of madrassahs; terrorism and militancy; civil war as well as outlines future...
Vidyasagar
The Life and After-life of an Eminent Indian
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This book offers a new interpretation of the life and legacy of the Indian reformer and intellectual, Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar (1820–91).
Drawing upon autobiography, biography, secondary criticism and a range of Vidyasagar’s original writings in Bengali, the book interrogates the role of...
by Indra Adhikari
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This book explores the development of the military as an organization and looks at the patterns of civil–military relations that have emerged in modern Nepal, especially after the rise of King Prithvi Narayan Shah, who founded the unified state of Nepal. It combines astute analyses with up-to-date...
Corporate Governance
Concept, Evolution and India Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
With the increasing awareness that mere economic and production-based explanations do not adequately describe the motivations for governance, researchers have focused on the behavioral side of the firm performance to justify the economic rationale of their typical behaviours. This book describes the...
An Alternative Philosophy of Development
From economism to human well-being
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
While development has been the foremost agenda before successive governments in India, it has been viewed narrowly – from the perspective of economic development and particularly in terms of gross domestic product (GDP). This book questions such an approach. It breaks from the conventional wisdom...
Evil and the Philosophy of Retribution
Modern Commentaries on the Bhagavad-Gita
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
What is ‘evil’? What are the ways of overcoming this destructive and morally recalcitrant phenomenon? To what extent is the use of punitive violence tenable? Evil and the Philosophy of Retribution compares the responses of three modern Indian commentators on the Bhagavad-Gita — Aurobindo Ghose,...
Critical Perspectives on Agrarian Transition
India in the global debate
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
This book evaluates the relevance of classical debates on agrarian transition and extends the horizon of contemporary debates in the Indian context, linking national trends with regional experiences. It identifies new dynamics in agrarian political economy and presents a comprehensive account of diverse...
Resettling Displaced People
Policy and Practice in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Developmental projects have long been displacing people in large numbers every year, but it is only in recent years that the fate of those adversely affected has become an issue of widespread concern requiring urgent action. This volume is the scholarly exploration of these critical issues in a wider...
Mahabharata Now
Narration, Aesthetics, Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The Mahabharata is at once an archive and a living text, a sourcebook complete by itself and an open text perennially under construction. Driving home this striking contemporary relevance of the famous Indian epic, Mahabharata Now focuses on the issues of narration, aesthetics and ethics, as also...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
China is the world’s second largest economy and a key player in world politics. This book looks at China’s foreign policy from a macro perspective. It analyses China’s peripheral and regional policy as well as its relations with other major powers – India and Russia. It offers insight into...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
This book analyses key theoretical influences on Indian culture in a business context. It shows the interactions between indigenous culture and workplace ethics which is increasingly being populated by multinational corporations. It discusses how the Indian workplace has evolved over time as well...
Social Income and Insecurity
A Study in Gujarat
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Economic liberalisation associated with globalisation is causing a pervasive growth of economic insecurity experienced all over the world. This is placing urgent demands on policymakers to rethink old policies and institutions.
This book sets out a new approach to the assessment of income dynamics,...
The State of Labour
The Global Financial Crisis and its Impact
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This book analyzes the adverse effects of globalization and liberalization — acutely manifest in the increased financialization of capital and the concomitant global financial crisis of 2008–09 — on the labour force, especially in the developing countries. Drawing upon case studies from several...
Partition and the South Asian Diaspora
Extending the Subcontinent
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Negotiating nations
Claiming Pakistan
Resisting Hindutva
Redoing South Asia
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index