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.
The Press in Colonial India: Maharajas, Muslims and the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir
1st Edition
By Nayeem Showkat
September 04, 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 ...
Hindu Nationalism, History and Identity in India: Narrating a Hindu past under the BJP
1st Edition
By Lars Tore Flåten
August 14, 2018
When the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power in India in 1998 as the largest party of the National Democratic Alliance, it soon became evident that it prioritized educational reforms. Under BJP rule, a reorganization of the National Council of Educational Research and ...
The Formation of the Colonial State in India: Scribes, Paper and Taxes, 1760-1860
1st Edition
By Hayden J. Bellenoit
August 14, 2018
In the period between the 1770s and 1840s, through the process of colonial state formation, the early colonial state in India was able to harness and extract vast amounts of agrarian wealth in north India. However, little is known of the histories of the Indian scribes and the role they played in ...
Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India: Entertaining the Raj
1st Edition
By Babli Sinha
June 16, 2017
Through the lens of cinema, this book explores the ways in which the United States, Britain and India impacted each other politically, culturally and ideologically. It argues that American films of the 1920s posited alternative notions of whiteness and the West to that of Britain, which stood for ...
Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930: Constructing Nation and History
1st Edition
By Prabhu Bapu
May 31, 2017
Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented by the Hindu Mahasabha. This book explores the campaign for Hindu unity and organisation in the context of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in colonial north India in the early twentieth century. It argues that India's partition ...
Gender and Radical Politics in India: Magic Moments of Naxalbari (1967-1975)
1st Edition
By Mallarika Sinha Roy
May 21, 2015
The Naxalbari movement marks a significant moment in the postcolonial history of India. Beginning as an armed peasant uprising in 1967 under the leadership of radical communists, the movement was inspired by the Marxist-Leninist theory of revolution and involved a significant section of the ...
A History of State and Religion in India
1st Edition
By Ian Copland, Ian Mabbett, Asim Roy, Kate Brittlebank, Adam Bowles
September 11, 2014
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 ...
Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab: Governance and Sedition
1st Edition
By Shalini Sharma
August 12, 2014
The actions of the radical left in Punjab in pre-Independence India during the 1920s and 30s have often been viewed as foreign and quintessentially un-Indian due to their widely vilified opposition to the Quit India campaign. This book examines some of these deterministic misapprehensions and ...