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The death of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 until the annexation of Maratha territories by the British East India Company in 1818 was a period of transition for the economy of India. This book focuses on these transitions, and shows how a study of this period of Indian history contributes to...
To Be Published June 27th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Pathfinders
The book explores the various stages of Shyamji Krishnavarma’s life in India and abroad. Particular emphasis is placed on his role as cultural mediator who exerted a formative influence, on both the European view of India as well as the Indian reception of Western political thought....
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge India
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
The Ramayana of Valmiki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a foundational religious text. But this understanding is in part the result of a transformation of the epic’s receptive history, a hermeneutic project which challenged one characterization of the genre of the text, as a work of...
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
This book critically engages with the idea of decentralization as empowering cities and their residents to act innovatively and creatively. The contributions thus highlight how the term ‘empowerment’ in the context of decentralization regimes masks a competing array of intentions and agendas. Who...
To Be Published August 12th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Journalism
In the face of the continuously changing challenges of the digital age, it is difficult for quality news journalism to survive on any significant scale if a means for adequately funding it is not available. This new study, a follow-up to 2007’s The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies,...
To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian Politics
India's explosive economic growth and emerging power status make it a key country of interest for policymakers, researchers and scholars within South Asia and around the world. But while many of India's threats and conflicts are strategized and discussed extensively within the confines of security...
To Be Published August 25th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
The rhetoric of armed social welfare has become prominent in military and counterinsurgency circuits with profound consequences for the meanings of democracy, citizenship, and humanitarianism in conflict zones. By focusing on the border district of Kargil, the site of India and Pakistan’s fourth...
To Be Published September 4th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
There is a steady and growing scholarly, as well as popular interest in Hindu religion – especially devotional (bhakti) traditions as forms of spiritual practice and expressions of divine embodiment. Associated with this is the attention to sacred images and their worship. Attending Krishna's...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in South Asia
This book reinterprets the Muslim architecture and urban planning of South India, looking beyond the Deccan to the regions of Tamil Nadu and Kerala - the historic coasts of Coromandel and Malabar. For the first time a detailed survey of the Muslim monuments of the historic ports and towns...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
This book contributes to the history of religions and Buddhist studies fields by focussing on what is a far too frequently ignored aspect of religious experience: visual images....
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
