Routledge India imprint: 457 books
The Return of the Buddha
Ancient Symbols for a New Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The Return of the Buddha traces the development of Buddhist archaeology in colonial India, examines its impact on the reconstruction of India’s Buddhist past, and the making of a public and academic discourse around these archaeological discoveries.
The bookdiscusses the role of the state...
Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India
Essays in Honour of Peter Robb
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
This book sheds new light on the dynamics of the colonial encounter between Britain and India. It highlights how various analytical approaches to this encounter can be creatively mobilised to rethink entanglements of memory and identity emerging from British rule in the subcontinent. This volume reevaluates...
School Education in India
Market, State and Quality
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This volume examines how the public and private domains in school education in India are informed and mediated by current market realities. It moves beyond the simplistic dichotomy of pro-state versus promarket factors that define most current debates in the formulations of educational reform agendas...
Motherhood in India
Glorification without Empowerment?
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This book presents an overview of the varied experiences and representations of motherhood in India from ancient to modern times. The thrust of the arguments made by the various contributors is that the centrality of motherhood as an ideology in a woman’s life is manufactured. This is demonstrated...
India’s National Security
Annual Review 2016-17
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
The global security environment in the last five years has been characterised by a state of ‘no war, no peace’ among major powers, resulting in a state of uncertainty about their national security objectives. For instance, the US has been concerned about the attitudes of Iran, Russia, North Korea,...
by Lakhwinder Singh, Kesar Singh Bhangoo, Rakesh Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Agrarian distress in the era of globalization has manifested in the suicides of farmers and agricultural labourers. This book, using empirical research and field data from north India, especially Punjab, examines the different facets of this tragic phenomenon in rural India. Situating Indian agriculture...
India Migration Report 2017
Forced Migration
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The India Migration Report 2017 examines forced migration caused by political conflicts, climate change, disasters (natural and man-made) and development projects. India accounts for large numbers of internally displaced people in the world. Apart from conflicts and disasters, over the years development...
Becoming a Borderland
The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
This book discusses the politics of space and identity in the borderlands of northeastern India between the early 1800s and the 1930s. Critiquing contemporary post-colonial histories where this region emerges as fragments, this book sees these perspectives as continuing to be entrapped in a civilizational...
Claiming India from Below
Activism and democratic transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Going beyond electoral politics and government, this volume broadens the scope of the functioning of democracy in India, and explores citizens’ role in the implementation of public policy. It looks at the ways in which extra-parliamentary power monitoring devices such as public institutions, citizens’...
Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India
Monuments, Memory, Contestation
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The book examines the postcolonial Muslim political discourse through monuments. It establishes a link between the process by which historic buildings become monuments and the gradual transformation of these historic/legal entities into political objects. The author studies the multiple interpretations...
Public Health in India
Technology, governance and service delivery
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Despite rapid advances in modern medicine and state-of-the-art health care services in the private sector, primary health care in India remains inaccessible to a majority of the population. Besides, even policymakers often do not have access to real-time data to fine-tune their policies or design...
Contemporary India and South Africa
Legacies, Identities, Dilemmas
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This book deals with the legacies of the Indian experiences of migration and diaspora in South Africa. It highlights the social imaginaries of the migrants and citizens as they negotiate between a reconstructed notion of ‘India’ and their real present and future in the country of citizenship.
Both...
Becoming Assamese
Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast India
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This book explores the making of colonial Northeast India and offers a new perspective to the study of the Assamese identity in the nineteenth century as a distinctly nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon, not confined to linguistic parameters alone. It studies crucial markers of the self — history,...
by Krishna Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
In retracting from the popular view that India’s modern educational policy was shaped almost entirely by Macaulay, this incisive work reveals the complex ideological and institutional rubric of the colonial educational system. It examines its wide-ranging and lasting impact on curriculum, pedagogy,...