Routledge India imprint: 457 books
Novelist Tagore
Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a poet-philosopher and educationist, but his novels remain a relatively underexplored aspect of his oeuvre. Focusing on gender and modernity as key features of his fiction, this book charts Tagore's evolution as a novelist from self-conscious psychologizing...
by Himanshu Prabha Ray
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book traces the archaeological trajectory of the expansion of Buddhism and its regional variations in South Asia. Focusing on the multireligious context of the subcontinent in the first millennium BCE, the volume breaks from conventional studies that pose Buddhism as a counter to the Vedic tradition...
The Buddha in Sri Lanka
Histories and Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book examines culture, religion and polity in the context of Buddhism. Gananath Obeyesekere, one of the foremost analytical voices from South Asia develops Freud’s notion of ‘dream work’, the ‘work of culture’ and ideas of no-self (anatta) to understand Buddhism in contemporary Sri...
by Dipankar Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This book examines democracy and governance from the unconventional and largely under researched vantage point of information. It looks at the exclusionary informational dynamics in democracy and analyses the role of information capitalism, new technology, virtual networks, cyberspace and media.
While...
Tools of Justice
Non-discrimination and the Indian Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In the years since independence, the Indian subcontinent has witnessed an alarming rise in violence against marginalized communities, with an increasing number of groups pushed to the margins of the democratic order. Against this background of violence, injustice and the abuse of rights, this book...
by Nicolas Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This book offers unique insights into the changing nature of power and hierarchy in rural Pakistan from colonial times to present day. It shows how electoral politics and the erosion of traditional patron–client ties have not empowered the lower classes. The monograph highlights the persistence...
Politics of the Global Economic Crisis
Regulation, Responsibility and Radicalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
A crucial commentary on the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression, this book argues for ‘Three Rs’ — Regulation, Responsibility and Radicalism — i.e., state regulation of finance, state responsibility towards society, and radical social movements to fight for economic justice....
Rethinking Capitalist Development
Primitive Accumulation, Governmentality and Post-Colonial Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
In this book, Kalyan Sanyal reviews the traditional notion of capitalism and propounds an original theory of capitalist development in the post-colonial context.
In order to substantiate his theory, concepts such as primitive accumulation, governmentality and post-colonial capitalist formation...
The Changing Face of Imperialism
Colonialism to Contemporary Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This volume reiterates the relevance of imperialism in the present, as a continuous arrangement, from the early years of empire-colonies to the prevailing pattern of expropriation across the globe. While imperialism as an arrangement of exploitation has sustained over ages, measures deployed to achieve...
Goddesses of Kathmandu Valley
Grace, Rage, Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In South Asia goddesses are conceptualized and worshipped in a fascinatingrange of forms – from cosmic beings to bacterial manifestations, from human-like appearances to creatures with animal and insect semblances. This book maps the diverse identities of goddesses through metaphors of Grace, Rage...
Decolonising Heritage in South Asia
The Global, the National and the Transnational
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
This volume cross-examines the stability of heritage as a concept. It interrogates the past which materialises through multi-layered narratives on monuments and other objects that sustain cultural diversity. It seeks to understand how interpretations of “monuments” as “texts” are affected...
Democratisation in the Himalayas
Interests, Conflicts, and Negotiations
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Democratisation is a formidable task in the Himalayan region owing to its immense cultural heterogeneity. The process of democratisation has accentuated ethnic competition, assertion of identity, and demand for ethnic homelands to protect, safeguard, and promote political and development interests...
by Sanjeev Rai
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book presents an overview of the democracy movement and the history of education in Nepal. It shows how schools became the battleground for the state and the Maoists as well as captures emerging trends in the field, challenges for the state and negotiations with political commitments. It looks...
by Sudha Pai
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Dalit assertion has been a central feature of the states in the Hindi heartland since the mid-1980s, leading to the rise of political consciousness and identity-based lower-caste parties. The present study focuses on the different political response of the Congress party to identity assertion in Madhya...