Routledge India imprint: 457 books

The Multilateral Trading System and Human Rights

A Governance Space Theory on Linkages

by Mihir Kanade
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017

This book contributes an original theory to understanding human rights and international trade. It offers the ‘governance space’ framework for analysing the linkages and normative relationships between the multilateral trading system (MTS) and human rights regimes. Drawing upon key case studies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Asian economic development and environmental consequences are not only crucial for the wellbeing of the people, but are of great relevance for the global economy. The ongoing intense debate on carbon emission mitigating strategies for reducing the impact of environmental consequences has undermined...
by Dev Nathan, D Narasimha Reddy, Govind Kelkar
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012

This study challenges the dominant tendency of civil society to negate international trade as such. The authors argue that it is necessary to frame differentiated trade rules based on levels of economic development, and also to shift from subsidies to shore up uncompetitive livelihoods to productivity-enhancing...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

This book rethinks economic theory and calls for a creative and pragmatic approach to policymaking. It examines what development and sustenance of economic progress mean, and how these may be facilitated. The relevance of this issue has received fresh impetus from the significant changes in the degree...
by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017

This book critically examines some of the major trends in the development of higher education. It demonstrates how in the context of liberalisation, globalisation and marketisation, the crisis in higher education has assumed different dimensions in all advanced and emerging societies. The author shows...

Reading Postcolonial Theory

Key texts in context

by Bibhash Choudhury
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016

This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory. It looks at seminal works in the ‘moments of their making’ and delineates the different threads that bind postcolonial studies. Each chapter presents a comprehensive discussion of a major text and contextualises...

Wronging Rights?

Philosophical Challenges for Human Rights

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Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012

This book brings together two of the most powerful and relevant philosophical critiques of human rights: the post-colonialist and the post-Althusserian, its balanced internal structure not just throwing these two critiques together, but actually forcing them to enter into confrontation and dialogue. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012

Pakistan is at currently at the centre of regional and global geo-strategic issues as a frontline state in the global war on terrorism. It is seeking to project itself as a modern Islamic state that can engage both the Islamic bloc and the western world in the post 9/11 era. This book addresses some...

Jammu and Kashmir

Politics of identity and separatism

by Rekha Chowdhary
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the complex conflict situation in Kashmir. Through an internal perspective, it charts the shift in the Kashmiri response towards the Centre and offers a detailed examination of the background in which separatist politics took roots in Kashmir,...

The Postcolonial Epic

From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh

by Sneharika Roy
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018

This book demonstrates the epic genre’s enduring relevance to the Global South. It identifies a contemporary avatar of classical epic, the ‘postcolonial epic’, ushered in by Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, a foundational text of North America, and exemplified by Derek Walcott’s Caribbean masterpiece...

Plato’s Labyrinth

Sophistries, Lies and Conspiracies in Socratic Dialogues

by Aakash Singh Rathore
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017

This original and stimulating study of Plato's Socratic dialogues rereads and reinterprets Plato's writings in terms of their dialogical or dramatic form. Taking inspiration from the techniques of Umberto Eco, Jacques Derrida, and Leo Strauss, Aakash Singh Rathore presents the Socratic dialogues as...

Xinjiang and the Chinese State

Violence in the Reform Era

by Debasish Chaudhuri
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017

This book focuses on the nature of ethno-national conflicts and impacts of ideological orientation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) towards the national question in the context of Han nationalism and political, economic and security policies towards Xinjiang. Violence in Xinjiang since the mid-1990s...

The Thiri Rama

Finding Ramayana in Myanmar

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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017

The Thiri Rama – or the Great Rama – was written for court performance and is the only known illustrated version of the Ramayana story in Myanmar. Based on palm-leaf manuscripts and scenes carved on over 300 sandstone plaques at a mid-nineteenth-century Buddhist pagoda west of Mandalay in Myanmar,...

Evolving Synergies

Celebrating Dance in Singapore

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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

A comprehensive overview of the dance culture of Singapore, this book embodies storytelling, personal reflections, memories, and histories of the artists. The extensive calendar of events encompassing companies and soloists from diverse dance practices, such as Indian, Malay and Chinese and a variety...
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