Routledge India imprint: 457 books
Rise of Reason
Intellectual history of 19th-century Maharashtra
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This book offers one of the first critical evaluations and in-depth analysis of the intellectual movement in Maharashtra in the 19th century. Arguing against the prevalent view that Indian rationality was imported from Europe through the colonial agency, it traces the rational roots of the movement...
Modern Frames and Premodern Themes in Indian Philosophy
Border, Self and the Other
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book presents a fascinating examination of modern Indian philosophical thought from the margins. It considers the subject from two perspectives – how it has been understood beyond India and how Indian thinkers have treated Western ideas in the context of Indian society. The book discusses the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This is one of the first books to explore Nepali diaspora in a global context, across India and other parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Australia. It discusses the social, political and economic status and aspirations of the Nepali community worldwide. The essays in the volume cover...
Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia
Rediscovering the invisible believers
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from dominant discourses that discuss women as a single monolithic, homogenous category—thus rendering them invisible within the broader religious discourse—this monograph...
Temporary Migration, Transformation and Development
Evidence from Europe and Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
In a world grappling with refugee crisis, political unrest and economies on the verge of collapse, temporary migration has become an increasingly common phenomenon.
This volume presents a comprehensive picture of the transformative and development potential of temporary transnational migration...
Buddhism and Gandhara
An Archaeology of Museum Collections
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Gandhara is a name central to Buddhist heritage and iconography. It is the ancient name of a region in present-day Pakistan, bounded on the west by the Hindu Kush mountain range and to the north by the foothills of the Himalayas. ‘Gandhara’ is also the term given to this region’s sculptural...
English Siege and Prison Writings
From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings – composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege. Writings from the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 are well known, but there exists a vast body of texts, from Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Burma, and the Indian...
Gandhi and Liberalism
Satyagraha and the Conquest of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
One of the main themes running through Gandhi’s life and work was the battle against evil. This book offers a fascinating reconstruction of Gandhi and the doctrine of Ahimsa or non-violence. Gandhi’s moral perfectionism is contrasted with other forms of perfectionism, but the book stresses that...
by Mahendra Prasad Singh, Veena Kukreja
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This book is one of the first in-depth and systematic studies on the functioning and aspiring federations of South Asia. It examines how federal dynamics in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are impinged on by the nature of their specific constitutions; their societal, political and cultural fabrics;...
Premchand in World Languages
Translation, reception and cinematic representations
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This volume explores the reception of Premchand’s works and his influence in the perception of India among Western cultures, especially Russian, German, French, Spanish and English. The essays in the collection also take a critical look at multiple translations of the same work (and examine how...
The Vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands
A Study of Disasters and Response
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This first full-length book addresses disasters in the context of vulnerability of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that comprise 572 islands in the Bay of Bengal. It looks at the disasters that the islands have experienced in the last 200 years and analyzes major disasters since colonization by the...
Nuclear South Asia
Keywords and Concepts
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
This dictionary provides a comprehensive and ready guide to the key concepts, issues, persons, and technologies related to the nuclear programmes of India and Pakistan and other South Asian states. This will serve as a useful reference especially as the nuclear issue continues to be an important domestic and international policy concern.
The Genesis of Baloch Nationalism
Politics and Ethnicity in Pakistan, 1947–1977
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
This book explores the ideological, political and military interventions of the state of Pakistan in Balochistan and traces the genesis of today’s secessionist movement. It delves into the historical question of Balochistan’s integration into Pakistan in 1947 and brings out the true political...
Constructing Indian Christianities
Culture, Conversion and Caste
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This volume offers insights into the current ‘public-square’ debates on Indian Christianity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as rigorous analyses, it discusses the myriad histories of Christianity in India, its everyday practice and contestations and the process of its indigenisation....