Asian History

This multiauthor volume provides fresh ways of looking at community movements and social actors in Thailand and beyond. The chapters cover a range ...

In Religion and Women in India, Tanika Sarkar provides an account of gender prescriptions and proscriptions and their operation among various India...

The present work is the result of the inquiry conducted by the Commission under the Chairmanship of Sir John Woodhead.

In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist ...

This book explores the impact of global change in China in what is considered in the West as the Asian century and what this in turn means for visu...

Aung San Suu Kyi is a world-renowned, inspirational symbol of Burmese resistance and courage. Released in 2010 after spending fifteen of the previo...

This book contains nine contributions at the intersection of scholarship, activism, and sociocultural politics in mainland Southeast Asia, inspired...

This study of British missionary activity in the later nineteenth century India focuses attention on the missionaries' concern with social issues a...

In nineteenth century Travancore (Kerala), the lower caste women were not allowed to cover their upper body in public. This book is a study of the ...

This book is a succinct account of the intercourse between India and the Greco-Roman world from the earliest times till the fall of Rome. From preh...

How can India become a great country once again, is the question explored in this book. In the past, India had significant achievements in science,...

Indian state and non-state actors have deployed their soft power in Africa from Indias independence. Since then, as a result of internal shifts bro...

In September 1843 a collection of letters was published in London under the title Letters from India, describing a journey in the British Dominions...

In The Whirlpool That Produced China, Tingyang Zhao offers a philosophical interpretation of China's historicity, explaining how the expansion of C...

This book presents twelve of the authors selected essays on subjects related to contemporary Chinese thought and examines other significant works o...

Presenting an analytical account of the relational dynamics linking the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the 2019 anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong,...