Asian History Books

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1. Routledge Handbook of the South Asian Diaspora

   Edited by Joya Chatterji, David Washbrook

   South Asia’s diaspora is among the world’s largest and most widespread, and it is growing exponentially. In 2001, the government of India estimated that 20 million persons of Indian descent live abroad; and many more millions have roots to other countries of the subcontinent, in Pakistan,...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-48010-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Routledge Handbook of Indian and South Asian History

   Edited by Crispin Bates

   This Handbook presents key issues in Indian and South Asian history from earliest time to 1947, with an emphasis on the modern period since 1600. Written by experts in their respective areas, the Handbook introduces the reader to the field. The book is structured chronologically and highlights...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-48978-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Empire, Nationalism and Inter-Cultural Dialogue: Rabindranath Tagore’s Writings on History, Politics and Society

   By Michael Collins

   This book presents a new interpretation Rabindranath Tagore’s English language writings and his encounters with Western cultural and intellectual figures. It places the work of India's greatest nobel prize winner and cultural nationalist in the context of other colonial and postcolonial thinkers...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-59395-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. History of India

   By Eugene F. Irschick

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-43579-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. A History of State and Religion in India

   By Ian Copland, Ian Mabbett, Asim Roy, Adam Bowles

   The main focus of this book is the relationship between religion and the state in India. Written by a team of experienced authors, it analyses the nature and the origins of ‘Indian secularism’, and whether ‘communalism’ in India just a product of colonial policy and modernisation. Furthermore, it...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-58066-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Rethinking Transnational Chinese Cinema: The Amoy-dialect Film Industry in Postwar Asia

   By Jeremy E. Taylor

   The Amoy-dialect film industry thrived in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia in the 1950s. Film in Amoy dialect, a dialect of Chinese, reflects a particular period in the history of the Chinese diaspora, and has been little studied due to its ambiguous place within the wider realm of Chinese and East...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-49355-0 | Hardback (Routledge)

7. The Philosophy of Japanese Wartime Resistance

   Edited by David Williams

   This is a complete translation, together with a substantial commentary and introduction, of The Standpoint of World History and Japan, by Masaaki Kosaka, Iwao Koyama, Keiji Nishitani and Shigetaka Suzuki. This important work, by leading philosophers of the Kyoto School, long regarded as one of the...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-47646-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Pre-Modern States on China's North-Eastern Frontier: The Liao, 916-1125, and the Koryo, 918-1392

   By Remco Breuker

   This book examines the pre-modern states on China’s north-eastern frontier during the 10th, 11th and 12th centuries, a crucial formative period in which the shape of the modern Chinese and northeast Eurasian states from Mongolia to Korea was formed. In particular, it focuses on the Liao and Koryo,...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-77620-2 | Hardback (Routledge)

9. Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950

   Edited by Raquel Reyes, William G. Clarence-Smith

   Sexual Diversity in Asia is the first book of its kind to place sex acts in Asia at the forefront of historical investigation. The chapters explore the history of sodomy and other so-called transgressive sexual practices such as anal sex, same-sex erotic encounters, pederasty, bestiality, incest,...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-60059-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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    The Routledge Atlas of Central Eurasian Affairs

    By Stanley D. Brunn, Stanley W. Toops

    This Atlas provides concisely written entries on the most important current issues in the Central Asia and Eurasia. Offering relevant information on the region’s place in the contemporary political and economic worlds, it includes background topics, the position of the region in...

    March 2011 | 978-0-415-49752-7 | Paperback (Routledge)