Asian History

After centuries of British rule, nobody expected Indian Independence and the birth of Pakistan to be so bloody they were supposed to be the answer...

At the age of only twenty, Walter Medhurst set sail in August 1816 from London, aboard the General Graham, bound for Malacca to establish a printin...

We have absorbed the notion of the Anzac into the spiritual core of what it means to be Australian without ever examining the spiritual core of the...

An absorbing, joyous, and colorful collection of stories from the qissa genre.  Fabulous Machinery for the Curious presents the first English trans...

After a year of trading colorful barbs with the American president and significant achievements in North Korea's decades-long nuclear and missile d...

Bringing together more than 100 items of clothing, this book reveals the intricacies of Japanese dress from the 18th century to the present. Includ...

In 1891 the hill state and principality of Manipur erupted in violence, the worst bloodshed in India since the Great Mutiny thirty-four years earli...

The partitioning of British India into independent Pakistan and India in August 1947 occurred in the midst of communal holocaust, with Hindus and S...

For scholars of ancient Indian religions, the wandering mendicants who left home and family for a celibate life and the search for liberation repre...