This book underscores the colonial psyche in articulating conservation policies and uncovers stra...

State and Peasant Society in Medieval North India uses a variety of sources--archival records, In...

Beginning with the Neolithic Chalcolithic phase to the introduction of iron technology in the Meg...

This book is a modest attempt to look at and examine the beginnings of ecological concerns in the...

Cross-Cultural Networking in the Eastern Indian Ocean Realm examines the history of the Bay of Be...

This collection of twelve essays foregrounds the conjunction of the social phenomenon called 'cas...

Before Western medical systems became prominent, Ayurveda and Unani had evolved into specialized ...

Reconstructed history of three villages separately studied (Vrindavan, Radhakund and Rajpur), Mat...

Jawaharlal Nehru: A Communicator and Democratic Leader explores multiple facets of Nehru's experi...

Alternative Arguments is a tribute to Professor Surendra Gopal, a truly extraordinary historian, ...

Nowhere on earth is the relationship between man and land more complicated and seemingly as intra...

Common Sense and Legal History in India brings together the shorter works of Richard W. Lariviere...

The essays in this volume deal with caste reform movements in Kerala of the nineteenth and twenti...

Pondicherry under the French: Illuminating the Urban Landscape, 1674-1793 explores how the town o...

Classical work on Hindu law; critically edited text.

During his lifetime Dwijendralal Roy (1863-1913) was one of Bengal's best known poet-musician-dra...

This eclectic collection of essays is embedded in both the past and present of the region's compl...

The eleven articles in this volume mark a significant advance in Vedic studies. Contributions ran...

'The Indian craftsman conceives of his art, not as the accumulated skill of ages, but as originat...

In the 'rebel world' of 1857, indigenous discourse on the great uprising in the form of proclamat...

Contemporary anxieties about global warming and climate change impacts have unsettled the ways in...

India's Historic Battles: From Alexander the Great to Kargil focuses on the decisive battles that...

The essays in this volume examine 'hidden histories' related to gender, religion, and reform in m...

India and the Silk Road: Exploring Current Opportunities is based on the historical as well as co...

The similarities and differences in the evolution of modern nations across the world are most evi...

State, Power and Legitimacy: The Gupta Kingdom presents a comprehensive account of the Gupta stat...

The 22 essays in this volume, written between 1974 and 2010, deal with the religious history and ...

An important aspect of India's foreign policy from the 1990s has been its attempt to consolidate ...

Professor Kesavan Veluthat, in a significant departure from the existing scholarship, represented...

This book is a collection of papers on suicide and self-immolation, reprinted from the almost for...

Visual histories of South Asia is one of the first comprehensive contributions to the rapidly deve...

This book shows how gender is central to our imagination and understanding of modernity. The essa...

Prehistoric Research in the Indian Subcontinent is, on the one hand, a commemoration of the 150 y...

The Eternal Dastur Craft is a study of the Rajlok, Khojas of the state and the political and reli...

Previous editions published under the title: Såur Dåas.

A History of Humanity is the definitive symbolic history of the world. The methods of symbolic hi...

A hermeneutic engagement with Maithili folk songs allows this book to hinge upon the notions of l...

The first section of this volume indicates how the city has negotiated space from its formative y...

While Bollywood continues to be part of the psyche of Indians and South Asians the world over, th...

In a conscious bid to avoid the categorization of 'south' India Streaming the Past: Peninsular In...

This book on the city of Agra makes a close examination of this medieval Indian urban centre that...

What does the idea concept of South Asia mean in a time when borders have become absolute, predet...

This volume contains wide-ranging surveys of various aspects of the history of India's medieval p...

In this first critical edition of the legal treatise of Viṣṇu (Viṣṇu Smṛti), Olivelle locates the...

Woods, Mines and Minds: Politics of Survival in Jalpaiguri and the Jungle Mahals deliberates upon...

This book binds together essays that, in spite of adopting diverse methodologies and different pe...

The second volume of Kolkata in Space, Time and Imagination continues with the theme of the ordin...

Philology was everywhere and nowhere in classical South Asia. While its civilizations possessed r...