This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the
European colonial project”(Observer).“... sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western …

The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic
countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our …

The fifth edition of Modern South Asia draws on the newest historical research and
scholarship in the field to interpret and debate key developments in modern South Asian …

The argument which follows originated in a growing dissatisfaction with much of the recent
work-my own as well as that of others-on the subject of peasant rebellion and revolution. It is …

Presenting the grand sweep of Indian history from antiquity to the present, A History of India
is a detailed and authoritative account of the major political, economic, social and cultural …

Perhaps the most intransigent problem in the recent history of Indian society remains an
adequate understanding of the processes of social change which took place under …

The division of the world into rich and poor nations, and the division within poor nations
between a minority of rich people and a majority of poor people living at a minimum …

A provocative account of the development of modern national culture in India using classical
music as a case study. Janaki Bakhle demonstrates how the emergence of an" Indian" …

In the decades following its annexation to the Indian Empire in 1852, Lower Burma (the
Irrawaddy-Sittang delta region) was transformed from an underdeveloped and sparsely …

Dr Brown presents a political study of the first clearly defined period in Mahatma Gandhi's
Indian career, from 1915 to 1922. The period began with Gandhi's return from South Africa …