Routledge India imprint: 457 books
The Languages of Religion
Exploring the Politics of the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This book analyses the power that religion wields upon the minds of individuals and communities and explores the predominance of language in the actual practice of religion. Through an investigation of the diverse forms of religious language available — oral traditions, sacred texts, evangelical...
by Shoma Munshi
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
This book focuses on ‘urban family soaps’ on television and analyses them as an important resource for anthropological insights into contemporary social issues and practices. It studies the ‘popular’ and ‘everyday’ while also concentrating on the middle class.
The Bhagavad-Gita for the Modern Reader
History, interpretations and philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
What is the Bhagavad-Gita? Is it just a religious text? When was it composed? How relevant is it to the modern world?
This book answers these foundational questions and goes beyond. It critically examines the Bhagavad-Gita in terms of its liberal, humanist and inclusive appeal, bringing out...
Healing across Boundaries
Bio-medicine and Alternative Therapeutics
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
This unique volume initiates a dialogue between bio-medicine and alternative therapeutics. Undertaking a multidisciplinary exploration of the science and spirituality of healing and wellness, it offers varied perspectives from doctors, medical researchers, Ayurvedic practitioners, philosophers, psychologists,...
Pakistani Englishes
Syntactic Variations
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This book explores how non-native speakers, especially in postcolonial states, use English to communicate. Focusing on Pakistan, the monograph analyzes word categories, phrase and sentence structures used in the region and compares them to British English. It draws extensively from language used in...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
The Eastern Himalaya region covers a geographical area that spans five nations and has diverse landscapes, a multitude of ethnic groups and a rich variety of flora and fauna. The region is relatively poor in terms of GDP and per capita income; industrialisation and infrastructure is under-developed;...
by Ajit Sinha
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This book presents a comprehensive account of more than 200 years of controversy on the classical theories of value and distribution. The author focuses on four, perhaps most critical classics — Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, David Ricardo’s Principles of Political Economy, Karl Marx’s Capital...
Trends and Issues in Housing in Asia
Coming of an Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive overview of current housing practices across Asian cities based on facts and trends in the market. For many countries in Asia, the future of housing is now. This future is closely linked to successful theoretical advancement and policy practice in housing studies....
The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia
Identity, Nationalism and the Uniform Civil Code
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
It is a political study of the controversy surrounding the issue of the uniform civil code vis-à-vis personal laws from a South Asian perspective.
At the centre of the debate is whether there should be a centralized view of the legal system in a given society or a decentralized view, both...
Public Administration in the 21st Century
A Global South Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Public Administration has experienced a fundamental rethinking of its basic objectives, concepts and theories during the 21st century.
This book examines the transformations happening in global societies, the economy and in politics, to trace the trajectory of public administration as an academic...
Education and Society in a Changing Mizoram
The Practice of Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Located in the domain of cultural politics, the book with rich ethnographical data from Mizoram, a lesser known and understood state, brings the community, state and culture to centre-stage, along with family and stratification of the sociological discourse in education. The book argues for a re-look...
Postcolonial Writing in the Era of World Literature
Texts, Territories, Globalizations
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
This book explores the debates surrounding two dynamic fields – postcolonial studies and world literature. Contrary to many dominant narratives in critical theory, it asserts that as an analytical framework the idea of world literature is dead: the nineteenth-century ideal of world literature had...
Qualitative Research on Illness, Wellbeing and Self-Growth
Contemporary Indian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This book examines the theoretical, methodological and practical dimensions of Qualitative Research in the study of illness, wellbeing and self-growth in the Indian context. Using wide-ranging narratives, interviews, group discussions, and cultural analyses, it offers a social and psychological understanding of health and therapy.
Formatting Religion
Across Politics, Education, Media, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
To talk about religion is to talk about politics, identity, terrorism, migration, gender, and a host of other aspects of society. This volume examines and engages with larger debates around religion and proposes a new approach that moves beyond the usual binaries to analyse its role in our societies...