Routledge India imprint: 457 books
Political Internet
State and Politics in the Age of Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book investigates the Internet as a site of political contestation in the Indian context. It widens the scope of the public sphere to social media, and explores its role in shaping the resistance and protest movements on the ground. The volume also explores the role of the Internet, a global...
Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2013
Transitions
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Seventh in the annual series, this volume focuses on civil society movements in South Asia, besides covering armed conflicts in the region in 2012. The first section addresses the conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Myanmar, and the situation in Northeast India and Naxalite violence; the second...
The Rohingya in South Asia
People Without a State
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The Rohingya of Myanmar are one of the world’s most persecuted minority populations without citizenship. After the latest exodus from Myanmar in 2017, there are now more than half a million Rohingya in Bangladesh living in camps, often in conditions of abject poverty, malnutrition and without proper...
Nature, Culture and Gender
Re-reading the folktale
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Folktales in India have been told, heard, read and celebrated for many centuries. In breaking new ground, Indian folktales have been reread and examined in the light of the Mother Earth discourse as it manifests in the lifeworlds of women, nature and language. The book introduces ecofeminist criticism...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This volume examines the role of neoliberalism and its impact on education in South Asia. It contends that education is in a state of crisis across the world. This is reflected not only in the way the state has withdrawn to pave way for private capital but also in the manner in which knowledge and...
Negotiating Cultural Identity
Landscapes in Early Medieval South Asian History
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing landscape as a dynamic cultural complex in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting. It examines the social and cultural construction of space in the early medieval period in South Asia, as manifest...
Ramchandra Gandhi
The Man and His Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Ramchandra Gandhi, famous for his rich and varied interests, left behind a large corpus of writings, both philosophical and non-philosophical. Introducing the readers to the creative Indian philosopher, this volume highlights the principal thrust of his works, critically locates them within the larger...
Science and Religion
East and West
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
This volume situates itself within the context of the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field that is dedicated to the study of the complex interactions between science and religion. It presents an innovative approach insofar as it addresses the Eurocentrism that is still prevalent in this field....
Innovative Departures
Anthropology and the Indian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
This volume brings together analytical insights from modern social and cultural anthropology to unravel processes of globalization in the 21st century through diasporic migrations. Developments in anthropological theory and method are traced from the heritage of Enlightenment to the present times,...
The Sociology of Greed
Runs and Ruins in Banking Crises
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
The Sociology of Greed examines crises in financial institutions such as banks from the vantage point of the greed of the people at their helm. It offers an intensive analysis of the banking crises under the conditions of colonial capitalism in early twentieth-century Bengal that led to institutional...
Africa in World Affairs
Politics of Imperialism, the Cold War and Globalisation
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2019
Africa finds itself at the centre stage of world politics in the twenty-first century. To truly determine its rising influence and role in world affairs would mean unravelling the politics of imperialism, the Cold War and globalisation.
Going beyond Euro-American perspectives, this book presents...
Indian Managers and Organizations
Boons and Burdens
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Culture is critical to individuals and organizations. This book takes a close look into the way Indian managers work, their inner struggles, and forces that shape their behaviour. It presents an original framework developed by the author — the Existential Universe Mapper (EUM), a pluralistic and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
This volume closely analyses women’s role and experiences in migration (internal and international) and its interlinkages with the care economy in their functions as nurses and paid domestic workers as well as unpaid carers. Bringing together case studies from across India and other parts of the...
Gender and Distance Education
Indian and International Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This book investigates the intersection of gender and distance education from a feminist perspective and explores their contemporary innovative interfaces in Indian and international contexts.
The key issues raised here include a re- investigation of the democratizing potential of distance...