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1. Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930

   Constructing Nation and History

   By Prabhu Bapu

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented by the Hindu Mahasabha. This book explores the campaign for Hindu unity and organisation in the context of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in colonial north India in the early twentieth century. It argues that India's partition...

   Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India

   By Rebecca Brown

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   Gandhi’s use of the spinning wheel was one of the most significant unifying elements of the nationalist movement in India. Spinning was seen as an economic and political activity that could bring together the diverse population of South Asia, and allow the formerly elite nationalist movement to...

   Published June 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab

   Governance and Sedition

   By Shalini Sharma

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   The actions of the radical left in Punjab in pre-Independence India during the 1920s and 30s have often been viewed as foreign and quintessentially un-Indian due to their widely vilified opposition to the Quit India campaign. This book examines some of these deterministic misapprehensions and...

   Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. Decolonization in South Asia

   Meanings of Freedom in Post-independence West Bengal, 1947–52

   By Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   This book explores the meanings and complexities of India’s experience of transition from colonial to the post-colonial period. It focuses on the first five years – from independence on 15th August 1947 to the first general election in January 1952 – in the politics of West Bengal, the new Indian...

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India

   Exploring Transgressions, Contests and Diversities

   Edited by Biswamoy Pati

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India was much more than a ‘sepoy mutiny’. It was a major event in South Asian and British colonial history that significantly challenged imperialism in India. This fascinating collection explores hitherto ignored diversities of the Great Rebellion such as gender and...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. The State and Governance in India

   The Congress Ideal

   By William F. Kuracina

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   This book presents an innovative investigation of the policies of the Indian Congress during the late colonial period. Departing from the existing historiography of Indian nationalism, it analyses the extent to which Congress elites engaged in processes intended to foster nation-building in India....

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
7. A History of State and Religion in India

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

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   Offering the first long-duration analysis of the relationship between the state and religion in South Asia, this book looks at the nature and origins of Indian secularism. It interrogates the proposition that communalism in India is wholly a product of colonial policy and modernisation, questions...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
8. Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

   Symptoms of Empire

   By Ishita Pande

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and course of diseases - the author develops and challenges a burgeoning literature on colonial...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities

   The England-returned

   By Sumita Mukherjee

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   This book examines the role western-education and social standing played in the development of Indian nationalism in the early twentieth century. It highlights the influences that education abroad had on a significant proportion of the Indian population. A large number of Indian students -...

   Published October 5th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India

    Edited by Biswamoy Pati, Mark Harrison

    Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

    This book analyzes the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India, such as public health, medical institutions, mental illness and the politics and economics of colonialism. Based on...

    Published September 15th 2011 by Routledge