Asian History

Mid-nineteenth century Russian radicals who witnessed the Meiji Restoration saw it as the most sweeping revolution in recent history and the impetu...

Early twentieth-century Calcutta was not just a point of passage within the British Empire, but a key center of colonial power; a crucial laborator...

The Lao Peoples Democratic Republic is nearly fifty years old, and one of the few surviving one-party socialist states. Nearly five decades on from...

The Chandra Shum Shere Collection, which arrived in Oxford from Varanasi over a century ago, is one of the largest Indian manuscript libraries in t...

The Arcadian Library in London holds one of the finest collections of writing by Western women travelling to the East. The books and manuscripts co...

Histories often link British actions in Sindh to an aggressive anti-Russian imperial policy in Afghanistan (i.e., the Great Game). While these hist...