Book Series
Routledge Studies in South Asia
New & Published Titles:
Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal
Symptoms of Empire
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…
read moreNovember 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77815-2 (Routledge)
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Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab
Governance and Sedition
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…
read moreSeptember 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45688-3 (Routledge)
Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities
The England-returned
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…
read moreAugust 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55117-5 (Routledge)
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Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India
A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing.
In the years preceding formal Independence from British colonial rule, Indians found themselves responding to the panorama of…
read moreJune 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48847-1 (Routledge)
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Decolonization in South Asia
Meanings of Freedom in Post-independence West Bengal, 1947–52
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…
read moreJune 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48106-9 (Routledge)
The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India
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…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46231-0 (Routledge)
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The Ni'matnama Manuscript of the Sultans of Mandu
The Sultan's Book of Delights
The Ni'matnama is a late fifteenth-century book of the recipes of the eccentric Sultan of Mandu (Madhya Pradesh), Ghiyath Shahi, collected and added to by… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-35059-4 (Routledge)
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Muslim Architecture of South India
The Sultanate of Ma'bar and the Traditions of Maritime Settlers on the Malabar and Coromandel Coasts (Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Goa)
This book reinterprets the Muslim architecture and urban planning of South India, looking beyond the Deccan to the regions of Tamil Nadu and Kerala -… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-30207-4 (Routledge)
Boats of South Asia
This book sets new standards for the documentation of water transport, and introduces styles of boat-building which are unlikely to be found outside the sub-Continent.… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-29746-2 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India: Exploring Transgressions, Contests and Diversities
Edited by Biswamoy Pati
To be published January 27th 2010
The State and Governance in India: The Congress Ideal
By William F. Kuracina
To be published March 24th 2010
Gender and Radical Politics in India: Magic Moments of Naxalbari (1967-1975)
By Mallarika Sinha Roy
To be published April 1st 2010
Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India
By Rebecca Brown
To be published June 1st 2010
Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India: Society and the State, 1930s - 1960s
By William Gould
To be published June 30th 2010