Royal Asiatic Society Books
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
Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre: Thumri Lyrics
1st Edition
By Lalita du Perron
May 16, 2014
Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. This fascination with the musical genre still prevails in the twenty-first century. Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre examines Thumri Lyrics, a ...
The Making of Western Indology: Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the East India Company
1st Edition
By Rosane Rocher, Ludo Rocher
March 07, 2014
For thirty years in India at the cusp of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an administrator and scholar with the East India Company. The Making of Western Indology explains and evaluates Colebrooke’s role as the founder of modern Indology. The book discusses how ...
Women, Religion and Culture in Iran
1st Edition
By Sarah Ansari, Vanessa Martin
January 31, 2014
Investigates how women, religion and culture have interacted in the context of 19th and 20th century Iran, covering topics as seemingly diverse as the social and cultural history of Persian cuisine, the work and attitudes of 19th century Christian missionaries, the impact of growing female literacy...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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...