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.
Foreign Policy of Colonial India: 1900–1947
1st Edition
By Sneh Mahajan
August 14, 2020
The foreign policy of a colonial country is very different from that of a sovereign country. Two features of the foreign policy of colonial India were: one, that it was framed in the interest of Britain; and two, that till the very end, the British showed an unflinching determination to maintain ...
Gender, Nationalism, and Genocide in Bangladesh: Naristhan/Ladyland
1st Edition
By Azra Rashid
June 30, 2020
The 1971 genocide in Bangladesh took place as a result of the region’s long history of colonization, the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent into largely Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India, and the continuation of ethnic and religious politics in Pakistan, specifically the political suppression ...
Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India: Her Myriad Gaze on the ‘Other’
1st Edition
By Sukla Chatterjee
June 30, 2020
In the colonial context of South Asia, there is a glaring asymmetry in the written records of the interaction between the Bengali women and their European counterparts, which is indicative of the larger and the overall asymmetry of discursive power, including the flow and access to information ...
Citizenship, Community and Democracy in India: From Bombay to Maharashtra, c. 1930 - 1960
1st Edition
By Oliver Godsmark
December 17, 2019
On 1 May 1960, Bombay Province was bifurcated into the two new provinces of Gujarat and Maharashtra, amidst scenes of great public fanfare and acclaim. This decision marked the culmination of a lengthy campaign for the creation of Samyukta (‘united’) Maharashtra in western India, which had first ...
Class Conflict and Modernization in India: The Raj and the Calcutta Waterfront (1860-1910)
1st Edition
By Aniruddha Bose
December 12, 2019
In the days of the British Raj Calcutta was a great port city. Thousands of men, women, and children worked there, loading and unloading valuable cargoes that sustained the regional economy, and contributed significantly to world trade. In the second half of the nineteenth century, in response to a...
Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States: 1850-1950
1st Edition
By Waltraud Ernst, Biswamoy Pati, T.V. Sekher
December 12, 2019
Since the 1980s there has been a continual engagement with the history and the place of western medicine in colonial settings and non-western societies. In relation to South Asia, research on the role of medicine has focussed primarily on regions under direct British administration. This book looks...
Imperialism and Sikh Migration: The Komagata Maru Incident
1st Edition
By Anjali Roy
December 12, 2019
In the Punjab, a culture of migration and mobility had already emerged in the nineteenth century. Imperial policies produced a category of hypermobile Sikhs, who left their villages in Punjab to seek their fortunes in South East Asia, Australia, America and Canada. The practices of the British ...
India and World War I: A Centennial Assessment
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger D. Long, Ian Talbot
December 12, 2019
World War I directly and indirectly caused events and social and political trends which defined the history of the world for the rest of the century, including the Russian Revolution and the rise of communism to the Great Crash of 1929 which lead to the Great Depression and the rise of Hitler and ...
Politics and Left Unity in India: The United Front in Late Colonial India
1st Edition
By William F. Kuracina
December 12, 2019
The historical assessments of Left unity in 1930s India misrepresent activities designed to achieve unity. The common treatment of the relationship between Indian socialists and communists emphasizes disunity and the inability to find common ground. Scholarly discussions about unity in fact ...
The Kashmir Conflict: From Empire to the Cold War, 1945-66
1st Edition
By Rakesh Ankit
December 12, 2019
This book presents a study of the international dimensions of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan from before its outbreak in October 1947 until the Tashkent Summit in January 1966. By focusing on Kashmir’s under-researched transnational dimensions, it represents a different approach to ...
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 ...