Routledge India imprint: 457 books
Being Brahmin, Being Modern
Exploring the Lives of Caste Today
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
There is clearly an academic and political obsession with the ‘idea’ of the Brahmin. There is also, simultaneously, a near-complete absence of engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book addresses this intriguing paradox by making available a sociological description...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
One of the important projects launched by the British government in the late 19th century was the preparation of a detailed census of the demographic profile of the Indian population across the country. Unable to understand the cultural pluralism that characterizes Indian unity in variety, the census...
A Resurgent China
South Asian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Bringing together a range of South Asian perspectives on rising China in a comparative framework, an attempt has been made, for the first time, to identify and examine the political, economic and socio-cultural stakeholders and constituencies that influence the respective policy of individual South...
Beyond Crisis
Re-evaluating Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Through the essays in this volume, we see how the failure of the state becomes a moment to ruminate on the artificiality of this most modern construct, the failure of nationalism, an opportunity to dream of alternative modes of association, and the failure of sovereignty to consider the threats and...
Knowing Differently
The Challenge of the Indigenous
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
This book offers a bold and illuminating account of the worldviews nurtured and sustained by indigenous communities from across continents, through their distinctive understanding of concepts such as space, time, joy, pain, life, and death. It demonstrates how this different mode of ‘knowing’...
South and North
Contemporary Urban Orientations
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book explores urban life and realities in the cities of the Global South and North. Through literature, film and other forms of media that constitute shared social imaginaries, the essays in the volume interrogate the modes of production that make up the fabric of urban spaces and the lives of...
Theory after Derrida
Essays in Critical Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
A critical anthology that re-examines Jacques Derrida’s thought by way of theory and praxis, this volume reflects on his striking legacy and the future of theory. Among contemporary thinkers, Derrida challenges not only our ways of thinking but also hitherto methods of inquiry. This book captures...
by Amir Ali
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This book analyses South Asian Islam’s engagement with the West, and Britain in particular. It traces the roots of British multiculturalism to South Asia and the Deobandi school of Islam. The work shows how the pattern of interaction that initially emerged between the Deobandi Muslims and the colonial...
Annotating Salman Rushdie
Reading the Postcolonial
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
How does one read a foundational postcolonial writer in English with declared Indian subcontinent roots?
This book looks at ways of reading, and uncovering and recovering meanings, in postcolonial writing in English through the works of Salman Rushdie. It uses textual criticism and applied...
The Indian Graphic Novel
Nation, history and critique
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
This book is a detailed study of the Indian graphic novel as a significant category of South Asian literature. It focuses on the genre’s engagement with history, memory and cultural identity and its critique of the nation in the form of dissident histories and satire. Deploying a nuanced theoretical...
Grounding Morality
Freedom, Knowledge and the Plurality of Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Put together to honour one of the most influential philosophers in recent times, Mrinal Miri, this book brings together articles on philosophy, politics, literature and society, and updates the status of enquiry in each of these fields. In his philosophical writings, Miri has broken the stranglehold...
Child Man
The Selfless Narcissist
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
There is a part of us which neither listens to the voice of reason nor submit easily to social/moral conventions. Like a child, it relentlessly pursues whatever catches its fancy and keeps playing with fire. It can either help us actualize our heroic potential or put us on the road to self-destruction....
Reading with Allah
Madrasas in West Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Based on extensive fieldwork and archival records, this book traces the emergence and flourishing of madrasas and the myriad ways in which they impact upon local Muslim communities, especially in West Bengal. It also addresses issues of identity, ‘secular’ education and gender in this context,...
Exploring the Senses
South Asian and European Perspectives on Rituals and Performativity
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This fascinating volume offers a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach to understanding the senses by exploring themes in anthropologies of sound, sight, smell, taste, touch, and movement as expressed through aesthetic, perceptual, religious, and spiritual experiences. In drawing upon comparative...