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Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

Series Editor: Crispin Bates, the Editorial Committee of the Centre for South Asian Studies, Edinburgh University, UK

This series is published in association with the Centre for South Asian Studies, Edinburgh University - one of the leading centres for South Asian Studies in the UK with a strong interdisciplinary focus. It presents research monographs and high-quality edited volumes as well as textbook on topics concerning the Indian subcontinent from the modern period to contemporary times. It aims to advance understanding of the key issues in the study of South Asia, and contributions include works by experts in the social sciences and the humanities. In accordance with the academic traditions of Edinburgh, we particularly welcome submissions which emphasise the social in South Asian history, politics, sociology and anthropology, based upon thick description of empirical reality, generalised to provide original and broadly applicable conclusions.

The series welcomes new submissions from young researchers as well as established scholars working on South Asia, from any disciplinary perspective.

New and Published Books

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  1. Empire, Industry and Class

    The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940

    By Anthony Cox

    Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

    Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision, cultures of labour and class formation between two...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Princely India Re-imagined

    A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the present

    By Aya Ikegame

    Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

    India’s Princely States covered nearly 40 per cent of the Indian subcontinent at the time of Indian independence, and they collapsed after the departure of the British. This book provides a chronological analysis of the Princely State in colonial times and its post-colonial legacies. Focusing on...

    Published August 21st 2012 by Routledge

  3. The Guru in South Asia

    New Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Jacob Copeman, Aya Ikegame

    Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

    This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives...

    Published June 17th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean

    Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders

    By Satadru Sen

    Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

    This book examines the social, political and ideological dimensions of the encounter between the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman islands, British colonizers and Indian settlers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The British-Indian penal settlements in the Andaman Islands – beginning...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Gender and Sexuality in India

    Selling Sex in Chennai

    By Salla Sariola

    Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

    India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world. HIV has remained associated with sex work, and large sums of money provided to fund public health interventions have come from global institutions such as UNAIDS, the World Bank and USAID. In the midst of these processes, however,...

    Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Empire, Nationalism and the Postcolonial World

    Rabindranath Tagore's Writings on History, Politics and Society

    By Michael Collins

    Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

    By presenting a new interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore’s English language writings, this book places the work of India’s greatest Nobel Prize winner and cultural icon in the context of imperial history and thereby bridges the gap between Tagore studies and imperial/postcolonial historiography....

    Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge

  7. Sovereignty and Social Reform in India

    British Colonialism and the Campaign against Sati, 1830-1860

    By Andrea Major

    Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

    The British prohibition of sati (the funeral practice of widow immolation) in 1829 has been considered an archetypal example of colonial social reform. It was not the end of the story, however, as between 1830 and 1860, British East India Company officials engaged in a debate with the Indian rulers...

    Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka: Life after Terror
    By Dhana Hughes
    To Be Published July 10th 2013
  2. Development and Public Health in the Himalaya
    By Ian Harper
    To Be Published July 30th 2013
  3. Transnational Pakistani Connections: Marrying ‘Back Home’
    By Katharine Charsley
    To Be Published August 30th 2013
  4. The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka
    By Eva Gerharz
    To Be Published September 29th 2013

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