Routledge Studies in South Asian History
About the Book Series
This series is concerned with the history of South Asia. It includes a range of different approaches and publishes both single authored monographs and edited volumes.
South Asia's Freedom in Global Perspective: Nation, Partition, Federation
1st Edition
Edited
By Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal
December 03, 2025
This book engages in a creative process of historical retrieval of visions for substantive democracy and federal union during the struggle for freedom that remained unrealized during the postcolonial transition. Structured in three parts, the book examines the historical trajectory of South Asia in...
The Press in Colonial India: Maharajas, Muslims and the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir
1st Edition
By Nayeem Showkat
September 30, 2025
This book examines the history of the press in the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir under the British Raj. Based on extensive archival data, the author meticulously traces and documents the history of freedom of the press, speech and assembly, as well as the restrictions imposed in the princely ...
Colonial and Post-Colonial Identity Politics in South Asia: Zaat/Caste Among Muslims
1st Edition
By Muzaffar Assadi
May 06, 2025
Colonial and Post-Colonial Identity Politics in South Asia analyses the colonial and post-colonial documentation and caste classification among Muslims in India, demonstrating that religion negotiated with regional social customs and local social practices while at the same time fostering a shared ...
India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle: The Thomas Christians (1599–1799)
1st Edition
By Clara A. B. Joseph
April 14, 2025
India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle is a groundbreaking book that offers a fresh perspective on the Indian freedom struggle. It focuses on the Thomas Christians, a group of Christians in South India who waged a nonviolent struggle against European colonization during the politically volatile period...
The Aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971: Enduring Impact
1st Edition
Edited
By Amit Ranjan, Taj Hashmi, Mazhar Abbas
September 02, 2024
This book analyses the human dimension during and after the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. The chapters investigate questions of belonging and being an “alien”, civil rights and ethnic demands, and broader issues of citizenship and statelessness. The analysis centres around the situation of ...
Indian Liberalism between Nation and Empire: The Political Life of Gopal Krishna Gokhale
1st Edition
By Elena Valdameri
January 29, 2024
This book analyses the political thought and practice of Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915), preeminent liberal leader of the Indian National Congress who was able to give a ‘global voice’ to the Indian cause. Using liberalism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism and citizenship as the four main thematic ...
Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India: 1870-1930
1st Edition
By Michael S. Dodson
August 29, 2022
This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Banaras and Jaunpur, two of northern India’s most traditional cities, the book examines the workings...
Cultural Histories of India: Subaltern Spaces, Peripheral Genres, and Alternate Historiography
1st Edition
Edited
By Rita Banerjee
August 29, 2022
This book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. Examining cultural encounters between Europeans and Indians during the precolonial and colonial periods, the ...
Memories and Postmemories of the Partition of India
1st Edition
By Anjali Roy
June 30, 2021
This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of Hindu and Sikh survivors from West Punjab to foreground the intersection between history, memory and narrative. It shows how survivors script their life stories to reinscribe tragic tales of violence and ...
Democracy and Unity in India: Understanding the All India Phenomenon, 1940-1960
1st Edition
By Emily Rook-Koepsel
March 31, 2021
This book analyzes the ways in which organizations and individuals in India grappled with and contested definitions of democracy and unity in the decades directly preceding and following independent Indian statehood. The All India Scheduled Castes Federation and the All India Women’s Conference are...
Evolution, Race and Public Spheres in India: Vernacular Concepts and Sciences (1860-1930)
1st Edition
By Luzia Savary
March 31, 2021
This book provides an in-depth exploration of South Asian readaptations of race in vernacular languages. The focus is on a diverse set of printed texts, periodicals and books in Hindi and Urdu, two of the major print languages of British North India, written between 1860 and 1930. Imperial ...
Environment and Pollution in Colonial India: Sewerage Technologies along the Sacred Ganges
1st Edition
By Janine Wilhelm
August 14, 2020
India is facing a river pollution crisis today. The origins of this crisis are commonly traced back to post-Independence economic development and urbanisation. This book, in contrast, shows that some important early roots of India’s river pollution problem, and in particular the pollution of the ...