Routledge India imprint: 457 books
India’s Grand Strategy
History, Theory, Cases
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
As India prepares to take its place in shaping the course of an ‘Asian century’, there are increasing debates about its ‘grand strategy’ and its role in a future world order. This timely and topical book presents a range of historical and contemporary interpretations and case studies on the...
India Migration Report 2012
Global Financial Crisis, Migration and Remittances
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This volume is a collection of articles dealing with various dimensions of the Global Financial Crisis and its economic and social impact in terms of governance, emigration, remittances, return migration and re-integration.
The crisis, which had its origin in the United States in 2008, spread...
Women, Health and Public Services in India
Why are states different?
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Why are inter-state differences in human development in India so high? What explains regional patterns where overall the southern region has some of the best human development outcomes in the country while the states in the northern ‘heartland’ have the worst? In addressing these important questions,...
India Migration Report 2015
Gender and Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
India Migration Report 2015 explores migration and its crucial linkages with gender. This volume:
• studies important issues such as irregular migration, marriage migration and domestic labour migration, as well as the interconnections of migration, gender and caste;
• highlights...
Emigration in 21st-Century India
Governance, Legislation, Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Emigration in 21st-Century India is the first definitive exposition of contemporary Indian labour migration. The book provides a comprehensive appraisal of the policies, legislation and institutional architecture governing emigration at both federal and state levels. It posits that, geographically,...
India Migration Report 2018
Migrants in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
India Migration Report 2018 looks at Indian migrants in Europe and their lived experiences. It looks at how over the last few decades, the European Union has emerged as the preferred destination for Indian migrants surpassing the United States of America – and is home to Indian students and high-skilled...
Health Providers in India
On the Frontlines of Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This volume has articles contributed by health researchers, practitioners, policy advocates, programme managers and a journalist, and poems by renowned poet–physician Gieve Patel. Each presents a distinctive view of a particular group of frontline health providers, based on field research or on...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
This volume develops a unique framework to understand India through indigenous and European perspectives, and examines how it copes with the larger challenges of a globalized world. Through a discussion of religious and philosophical traditions, cultural developments as well as contemporary theatre,...
Democratic Decentralization in India
Experiences, issues and challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book explores experiences, issues and challenges which have emerged since Constitutional status was granted to the local bodies at grassroots level in India in the early 1990s. Among other issues, it focuses on:
the contrasting political ideas of Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar on Panchayati...
Dreaming Mobility and Buying Vulnerability
Overseas Recruitment Practices in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
In the alarming contemporary context of widespread corruption and fraudulence in the overseas labour recruitment system in India, this book attempts to understand the institution of emigration governance and recruitment practices in the country with a focus on the unskilled and semi-skilled sectors....
by Sachidananda Mohanty
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
This book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism, citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the multiple lenses of mysticism, travel, friendship, art, and politics.It makes a key intervention in the understanding of cosmopolitan modernity based on the lives and experiences...
Popular Cinema and Politics in South India
The Films of MGR and Rajinikanth
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
This work breaks new ground in the understanding of South Indian cinema and politics. Through incisive analysis and original concepts it illustrates the private, public and cinematic personas of MGR and Rajinikanth. It challenges the popular and scholarly myths surrounding them and shows the constant...
The Oppressive Present
Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Marking a departure from studies on history and literature in colonial India, The Oppressive Present explores the emergence of social consciousness as a result of and in response to the colonial mediation in the late nineteenth century. In focusing on contemporary literature in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati,...
Demonetisation Decoded
A Critique of India's Currency Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
On the night of 8 November 2016, at 8:15 pm, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced in a televised broadcast to the nation that with effect from midnight, currency notes of denominations Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 would no longer be legal tender. In one stroke, this involved the de-recognition...