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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India

   By Naheem Jabbar

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   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 sin and suffering that constituted the modern present in a variety of imaginative ways. This book is a...

   Published March 15th 2011 by Routledge
9. Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India

   Society and the State, 1930s - 1960s

   By William Gould

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   Offering a fresh approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar Pradesh, India. The author moves away from...

   Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
10. 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 November 7th 2010 by Routledge