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Adivasi movements played a very important, if not determining, role in the India’s freedom struggle. Gandhi’s idea of mass mobilization couldn’t have been successful without the active participation……続きを見る

Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia. But qazis and muftis, alongside ordinary people without formal ……続きを見る

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license. This book addresses the issue of how a country, which was incorporated into the world economy as a periphery, could make a transition to the eme……続きを見る

Em 1510, a ilha de Goa, na costa do subcontinente indiano, foi ocupada por portugueses. Dezesseis anos depois, o norte da Índia foi invadido por um exército do Afeganistão e da Ásia Central, comanda……続きを見る

The Celestial Dancers: Manipuri Dance on Australian Stage charts the momentous journey of the popularization of Manipur’s Hindu dances in Australia. Tradition has it that the people of Manipur, a no……続きを見る

This edited volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities, with a particular focus on festivals and performances in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The editors ask ho……続きを見る

गिरनार गुरुशिखर हे एक अनोखे प्रवास वर्णन आहे, यात लेखकाने गिरनार चा प्रवास अनोख्या शैलीत वर्णन केला आहे. गिरनार पर्वतावरील मंदीरे, त्यांचा इतिहास आणि प्रवासात आलेले काही दैवी अनुभव यांचे सुंदर शब्दा……続きを見る

World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India describes the way Marathi literary culture, entrenched in performative modes of production and reception, saw the germination of a robust……続きを見る

The foundations of politics in Tamil Nadu today are rooted in the rising consciousness and various organizations of what may be broadly termed "the Dravidian Movement" of the late nineteenth century……続きを見る

This book focuses on the relation between technology, warfare and state in South Asia in the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. It explores how gunpowder and artillery played a pivotal role in……続きを見る

Much of the scholarship dealing with religious offence in South Asia focuses on the unintended effects of blasphemy laws, showing, for instance, that laws presumably intended to promote religious to……続きを見る

This edited book provides a range of perspectives on the handling of particular aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic across the principal states of South Asia. As the first academic volume to deal with ……続きを見る

To Raise a Fallen People brings to light pioneering writing on international politics from nineteenth-century India. Drawing on extensive archival research, it unearths essays, speeches, and pamphle……続きを見る

This interpretation of Indian history was created by a small group of British historians who were either uninformed or motivated. However, many Hindus were complicit in popularising this interpretat……続きを見る

Explores how a folk ballad in southern India transforms the landscape and embeds the deities that are its subject within the social worlds of their devotees. Singing the Goddess into Place examines ……続きを見る

In "The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great," John Watson McCrindle presents a meticulous account of Alexander's monumental expedition into India, weaving together historical narrative, geograp……続きを見る

The author describes his experiences residing in India, during British colonial rule, training native soldiers to defend the British Empire in India during various military conflicts along the north……続きを見る

Covid-19 has given renewed, urgent attention to ‘the pandemic’ as a devastating, recurrent global phenomenon. Today the term is freely and widely usedーbut in reality, it has a long and contested hi……続きを見る

Delhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challengesーmass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizenship, and communal violence. To understand the co……続きを見る

India has two key social formations, the castes and the tribes. Both groups can be studied from the perspective of society (samaj) and culture (sanskriti). However, studies on castes largely deal wi……続きを見る

When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced and Anglo-Indian and community. Determined to……続きを見る

The Simla Convention of 1914, held between Great Britain, China, and Tibet, demarcated the border between India and Tibet and gave birth to the McMahon Line. This volume critically examines the lega……続きを見る

A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experience Words for the Heart is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from s……続きを見る

This book studies the hitherto unexplored history of the shawl and silk industries of the himalyan state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It focuses on the three processes – production, circulation, and……続きを見る

An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in India Nehru’s India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Draw……続きを見る

The landmark alternative history of the Cold War from the perspective of the Global South, reissued in paperback with a new introduction by the author In this award-winning investigation into the ov……続きを見る

Located in the city of Dwaraka, on the west coast of India in Gujarat, is the famous temple of Dwarakadhish, which is dedicated to Lord Krishna, the Lord of Dwaraka. Among the seven holy cities of I……続きを見る

This volume explores the rich pre-history, history, and oral history of the northeast region of India––a land-locked region that is home to over 350 ethnolinguistic communities. Despite its uniquene……続きを見る

This book investigates the concept of colonial globalization to show how knowledge, information, technology, capital and labour have the potential to move freely across the world. It studies the exp……続きを見る

These four Vedas comprise a highly developed religious system - the Rig, Sama, Atharva, and Yajur Vedas. Through the worship of the demigods, or the Vedic gods, these Vedas were primarily intended t……続きを見る