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About the Book Series

The Royal Asiatic Society was founded in 1823 ‘for the investigation of subjects connected with, and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to, Asia’. Informed by these goals, the policy of the Society’s Editorial Board is to make available in appropriate formats the results of original research in the humanities and social sciences having to do with Asia, defined in the broadest geographical and cultural sense and up to the present day.

Editorial Board:
Professor Francis Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK (Chair)
Professor Tim Barrett, SOAS, University of London, UK; Dr Barbara Brend, Royal Asiatic Society, UK; Dr Evrim Binbas, Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn, Germany; Professor Anna Contadini, SOAS, University of London, UK; Professor Michael Feener, National University of Singapore; Dr Gordon Johnson, University of Cambridge, UK; Dr Firuza Melville, University of Cambridge, UK; Dr Taylor Sherman, London School of Economics, UK; Dr Alison Ohta, Director, Royal Asiatic Society

 

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State Violence and Punishment in India

State Violence and Punishment in India

1st Edition

By Taylor C. Sherman
March 28, 2012

Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the population in colonial and postcolonial India, this book is both a study of the many techniques of colonial coercion and state violence and a cultural history of the different ways in which Indians imbued practices of punishment with their ...

The Development of Modern Medicine in Non-Western Countries Historical Perspectives

The Development of Modern Medicine in Non-Western Countries: Historical Perspectives

1st Edition

Edited By Hormoz Ebrahimnejad
February 21, 2012

The history of medicine in non-European countries has often been characterized by the study of their native "traditional" medicine, such as (Galenico-)Islamic medicine, and Ayurvedic or Chinese medicine. Modern medicine in these countries, on the other hand, has usually been viewed as a Western ...

Tribal Politics in Iran Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941

Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941

1st Edition

By Stephanie Cronin
December 09, 2010

Placing Iran's 'tribal problem' in its historical context, Tribal Politics in Iran provides an overall assessment on the impact of this crucial period on the character of tribe-state relations in Iran to the end of Pahlavi rule and in the Islamic Republic. It analyzes the political and ...

Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800

Anglo-Iranian Relations since 1800

1st Edition

Edited By Vanessa Martin
April 29, 2009

With contributions from renowned experts in the field, this book provides an excellent background to the history of Anglo-Iranian relations. Focusing on the political and economic relationship of Britain and issues of strategic sensitivity, the book also illuminates British relations with ...

Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal

Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal

1st Edition

By Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
April 29, 2009

This is a new and engaging examination of the emergence of a Muslim women’s movement in India. The state of Bhopal, a Muslim principality in central India, was ruled by a succession of female rulers throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, most notably the last Begam of Bhopal, Nawab ...

The Politics of Self-Expression The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan

The Politics of Self-Expression: The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan

1st Edition

By Markus Daechsel
April 29, 2009

The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobilization and organization with an effective de-politicization of politics. On the one hand obsessed with world events, people also came to understand ...

The British Occupation of Indonesia: 1945-1946 Britain, The Netherlands and the Indonesian Revolution

The British Occupation of Indonesia: 1945-1946: Britain, The Netherlands and the Indonesian Revolution

1st Edition

By Richard McMillan
January 13, 2006

This is the first work to systematically examine the British occupation of Indonesia after the Second World War. The occupation by British-Indian forces between 1945 and 1946 bridged the gap between the surrender of Japan and the resumption of Dutch rule, and this book is a reappraisal of the ...

Persian Literature - A Bio-Bibliographical Survey Poetry of the Pre-Mongol Period (Volume V)

Persian Literature - A Bio-Bibliographical Survey: Poetry of the Pre-Mongol Period (Volume V)

1st Edition

By Francois De Blois
June 21, 2004

This famous work from the Royal Asiatic Society is an indispensable tool for all serious students of Persian literature, history and culture, and a welcome companion to Persian literature in its most glorious period. This volume is the second, revised edition of three parts published in 1992 and ...

Muslims in India Since 1947 Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations

Muslims in India Since 1947: Islamic Perspectives on Inter-Faith Relations

1st Edition

By Yoginder Sikand
March 26, 2004

Muslims in India today are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organisations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths and to the modern nation-state, and...

The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain

The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain

1st Edition

By Ahmed ibn Mohammed al Makkari
May 30, 2003

This is the original History of the Mohammedan Dynasties of Spain reprinted from the first edition of 1840-43. A masterpiece of typography in its own right, it is an early, ingenious and fascinating history of Muslim Spain. One hundred and fifty years on, it represents the foundations of our modern...

Theology, Ethics and Metaphysics Royal Asiatic Society Classics of Islam

Theology, Ethics and Metaphysics: Royal Asiatic Society Classics of Islam

1st Edition

Edited By Hiroyuki Mashita
April 18, 2003

This collection of classic works, originally published under the auspices of the Royal Asiatic Society, includes an introduction by Professor Edmund Bosworth, and a preface by Professor Anthony Stockwell. Primary texts include works by F. Rosen, W.F. Thompson, C.E. Sachau, R.A. Nicholson, ...

The Zen Arts An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan

The Zen Arts: An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Aesthetic Form in Japan

1st Edition

By Rupert Cox
January 07, 2003

The tea ceremony and the martial arts are intimately linked in the popular and historical imagination with Zen Buddhism, and Japanese culture. They are commonly interpreted as religio-aesthetic pursuits which express core spiritual values through bodily gesture and the creation of highly valued ...

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