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Step into the extraordinary life of Mahatma Gandhi, one of the most influential leaders in modern history. This compelling book explores the journey of a man who transformed a nation through the pow……続きを見る

Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties across the Indian Ocean draws attention to the varied, historically contingent, and sometimes competing, arguments for and about sovereignty that operated in the Pal……続きを見る

From military camels and hunting cheetahs, to herding dogs and talking mynahs, animals have been living, working, playing and performing with humans in India for centuries. In this intimate book, Jo……続きを見る

In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India**, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their……続きを見る

These letters give a personal and intimate insight into the lives of two sisters living in Madras (now Chennai) in the time of Jane Austen. Both describe day-to-day life, occupations and relationshi……続きを見る

Bangladesh is currently ranked as one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. In Threatening Dystopias, Kasia Paprocki investigates the politics of climate change adaptation throughou……続きを見る

This book exploes the adoption and use of firearms and artillery by Sri Lankans, the impact of these weapons on warfare and their incorporation into the military organization in the island. The adve……続きを見る

When Sandra Shackelford heard this plea, she embarked on a decades-long project to preserve and dignify the loves, losses, and customs of the Hmong people who began immigrating to Green Bay, Wiscon……続きを見る

"Absolutely compelling... Nations without men like Beckwith simply don't survive." ー Wall Street Journal Wanted: Volunteers for Project Delta. Will guarantee you a medal. A body bag. Or both. The d……続きを見る

Max Duncker's 'The History of the Ancient Civilizations' is a comprehensive examination of the rise and fall of the great civilizations of antiquity, from ancient Mesopotamia to the Roman Empire. Wr……続きを見る

The current conventional Harappan and Indo-European timelines are impossible. Believing in them means endorsing the idea the Harappans, arguably the largest civilization of the Bronze Age lagged tho……続きを見る

Claiming Indigenous Plant Knowledge: From Botanical Exchanges to Resource Extraction in the Indian Ocean World examines the collection and documentation of the natural world's development over the c……続きを見る

This book examines how nineteenth-century Bengal witnessed women writers like Krishnabhabini Devi, Prasanyamoyee Devi, Swarnakumari Devi and Abala Bose interrogated social stereotypes. It presents t……続きを見る

The forcible integration of Kashmir into the Indian union has unleashed a new wave of intense political repression, human rights violations and resource appropriation in Kashmir and has once again m……続きを見る

For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave t……続きを見る

5,000 years of historyーfrom the Bhagavad Gita to Bollywoodーfill this masterful portrait of the world’s most populous nation and a rising global power. The Shortest History books deliver thousands ……続きを見る

At the pilgrimage site of Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka, a footprint is embedded atop the mountain summit. Buddhists hold that it was left by the Buddha, Hindus say Lord Siva, and Muslims and Christians ……続きを見る

Buddhist-Inflected Sovereignties across the Indian Ocean draws attention to the varied, historically contingent, and sometimes competing, arguments for and about sovereignty that operated in the Pal……続きを見る

An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history There are few historical figures more integral to So……続きを見る

High in the eastern Himalayan foothills, people had a unique vantage point on the British Empire. The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj presents a history of Mizoram in Northeast India told from his……続きを見る

In "The Splendour of Asia," L. Adams Beck invites readers on a vivid journey through the rich tapestry of Asian culture, history, and mystique. This work transcends mere travel narrative; it is a ly……続きを見る

印度，一個不容忽視的國家！ 立刻了解印度龐雜而又混亂的五千年歷史 恆河、拉賈斯坦邦的沙漠堡壘、白雪覆蓋的喜馬拉雅山和傳說中的文明遺址。 印度，一個古老的國度，是世界最大的民主國家，更是近年備受國際矚目……続きを見る

This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together perspectives from the disciplines of history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and religious studies, and ……続きを見る

At midnight on 14 August 1947, Britain's 350-year-old Indian Empire was broken into three pieces. The greatest mass migration in history began, as Muslims fled north and Hindus fled south, and Brita……続きを見る

During the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Kashmirーa Muslim-majority area ruled by a Hindu maharajaーbecame a hotly disputed territory. Divided between India and Pakistan, the region has……続きを見る

In March 1947 Lord Louis Mountbatten became the last Viceroy of India, with the mandate to hand over ''the jewel in the crown'' of the British Empire within one year. Mountbatten worked with Nehru, ……続きを見る

Winner of the Silver Nautilus Award for Journalism & Investigative Reporting "A book that truly is impossible to put down.”ーWashington Post "This remarkable debut is so deeply reported, elegantly w……続きを見る

A New York Times bestseller, the extraordinary World War II mission to rescue survivors of a U.S. military plane crash in an isolated corner of the South Pacific, and the ancient indigenous tribe me……続きを見る

The Sri Lankan security forces that defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) in 2009 evolved with that military conflict . Beginning as little more than ceremonial establishments of a fe……続きを見る

Honorable mention, 2018 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize from the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Many Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in ……続きを見る