This volume traces the caste system from the medieval kingdoms of southern India through early colonial archives to the 20th century.

"Zamindar crosses political and conceptual boundaries to bring together oral histories of north Indian Muslim families divided between the two cities of Delhi and Karachi with extensive archival research in previously unexamined Urdu ...

This book provides an analysis of one of the ancient world's foremost political realists, Kautilya.

Arundhati Roy introduces this extensively annotated edition of Annihilation of Caste in “The Doctor and the Saint,” examining the persistence of caste in modern India, and how the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi continues to ...

A landmark study of the Greek kingdoms of Bactria and India that treats them as Hellenistic states.

On the sufferings of women during the partition of India in 1947; includes personal narratives.

Mapping an Empire is at once a major contribution to the history of cartography, the history of imperialism, and --most tellingly--the history of their reciprocal constitution.--David N. Livingstone, The Queen's University of Belfast

“Maia Ramnath's Haj to Utopia is an odyssey through the world of early twentieth-century political radicalism, with a focus on the freedom dreams of those of Indian ancestry who found themselves on the West Coast of the United States.

European ambassadors, missionaries, soldiers, and scholars who followed produced a body of knowledge that shaped European thought about India. Sanjay Subrahmanyam tracks these changing ideas over the entire early modern period.

Were the British intent on development or exploitation? Were they a 'civilizing'force? Easy answers are avoided, and difficult questions provoked in this fascinating book.