In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how
imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial …

Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world lead to a new Cold
War? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of the new religious revolutionaries …

The historiography of modern India is largely a pageant of presumed virtues: harmonious
territorial unity, religious impartiality, the miraculous survival of electoral norms in the world's …

Why has the turn of the twenty-first century been rocked by a new religious rebellion? From
al Qaeda to Christian militias to insurgents in Iraq, a strident new religious activism has …

The grand exhibitions of the Victorian and Edwardian eras are the lens through which Peter
Hoffenberg examines the economic, cultural, and social forces that helped define Britain and …

This book is regarded as a personal manifesto, a statement through the history of partition
and its aftermath, of the values which India's Muslims should cherish and of the national …

Scholars of modern Indian history have often pointed to the continuities in the colonial
constructs of Indian society and the nationalist imaginations of India. The village was an …

This book assesses India's role as a major power in the Indian Ocean. Many see the Indian
Ocean as naturally falling within India's sphere of influence but, as this book demonstrates …

An interdisciplinary and engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since
Independence and unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Using the case …

The sixties were a time when anti-disciplinary politics blurred the boundaries between the
political and the aesthetic, and, according to some critics, the time when the possibility for …