Routledge India imprint: 457 books
Makeshift Migrants and Law
Gender, Belonging, and Postcolonial Anxieties
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book unmasks the cultural and gender stereotypes that inform the legal regulation of the migrant. It critiques the postcolonial perspective on how belonging and non-belonging are determined by the sexual, cultural, and familial norms on which law is based as well as the historical backdrop of...
Filming the Line of Control
The Indo–Pak Relationship through the Cinematic Lens
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Filming the Line of Control charts out the history of the relationship between India and Pakistan as represented in cinema, especially in light of the improved political atmosphere between the two countries. It is geared towards arriving at a better understanding of one of the most crucial political...
What are you Reading?
The World Market and Indian Literary Production
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This book offers a material critique on various aspects of Indian literary production and its reception by its audiences. Taking a historical and contemporary lineage into account, the author variously discusses the social, political, and economic factors that impact upon and determine choices in...
Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies
Interdisciplinary Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book tracks the trajectory of gender in the social sciences and humanities through an exploration of the challenges and contradictions that confront contemporary feminist analysis as well as future directions. Drawing on research in India, the essays in the volume engage with the subject in imaginative...
Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata
Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
The Mahabharata, one of the major epics of India, is a sourcebook complete by itself as well as an open text constantly under construction. This volume looks at transactions between its modern discourses and ancient vocabulary. Located amid conversations between these two conceptual worlds, the volume...
Afghanistan Post-2014
Power configurations and evolving trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Owing to its geo-strategic location and mineral wealth, Afghanistan has acquired significance in the inter-state politics of Asia as well as world politics during the past decades. This book outlines Afghanistan’s efforts to build a stable and peaceful democratic polity, with external military support...
Road to Pakistan
The Life and Times of Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
This is a biography of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the story of the creation of Pakistan. At a time of much interest and concern about Pakistan in the international community, this volume provides a historical context which helps in an understanding of the present. It traces the development of the Muslim...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
This volume explores the scope and limits of Mahatma Gandhi's moral politics and its implications for Indian and other freedom movements. It presents a set of enlightening essays based on lectures delivered in memory of the eminent historian B. R. Nanda along with a new introductory essay.
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Dalits
Past, present and future
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book is a comprehensive introduction to dalits in India (who comprise over one-sixth of the country’s population) from the origins of caste system to the present day. Despite a plethora of provisions for affirmative action in the Indian Constitution, dalits are largely excluded from the mainstream...
Violence and Non-Violence across Time
History, Religion and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This book probes the complex interweaving, across time and cultures, of violence and non-violence from the perspective of the present. One of the first of its kind, it offers a comprehensive examination of the interpenetration of violence and non-violence as much in human nature as in human institutions...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
The idea of transitions in Indian history emerged early when the term ‘transition’ denoted shifts from one period to another. The notion of transition itself has moved beyond being primarily economic to include dimensions of society, culture and ideology. This volume brings together scholarly...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This volume offers for the first time a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the making and maintenance of a modern caste society in colonial and postcolonial West Bengal in India. Drawing on cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, it explains why caste continues to be neglected in the politics...
by Channa Wickremesekera
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The complex and long-drawn war between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended with the defeat of the Tigers in 2009. This book provides a military history of the conflict in tracing its evolution from a battle between a ragtag guerrilla force and a mainly ceremonial...
A Century of Protests
Peasant Politics in Assam Since 1900
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Addressing an important gap in the historiography of modern Assam, this book traces the relatively unexplored but profound transformations in the agrarian landscape of late- and post-colonial Assam that were instrumental in the making of modern Assamese peasantry and rural politics. It discusses the...